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The headline says it all. And with the Luka trade it sure looks like itās the truth as far as the league making sure the ratings markets are taken care of
IOW the sports entertainment fix is in
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I only have room for one wwe in my life. Itās time to reevaluate my NBA viewing and spending habits.
Pretty sure the Warriors are linked to everyone in the nba and a few mlb players. Not to say anything is impossible though.
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Itās just interesting that they are linked in this article to two players that they have zero assets to get.
Unless of course itās a Luca style trade
The hindrance is they would have to involve a contender to move guys like Dray or Kuminga. They donāt have the draft assets to do this with us alone. ā¦I wouldnāt think
Iām fine with it. Iām at the point where Iāve given up on everything. Iāll take kuminga and Moses moody off their hands. And some firsts.
Everything is terrible, put me out of my misery.
Hey, at least weāre not Chicago
I was so upset. Knee thatās who we were picking but had no idea we were trading him. Same with Duren. Happy with Mark but my Lord what a miss on Shai
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Yeah, but if he was here heād probably be hurt.
Guys, I have a great idea. What if we trade Cody Martin for Lebronās Strength/Conditioning Coach/Trainer and his personal doctor? I think this trade would take us into the playoffs by keeping our players on the court.
Trade him for one of LeBronās full body dry ice chambers.
This team needs to trade everybody excluding miller, salun, diabate and start over
They wonāt but they should
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Blow it the eff up.
Get back some players who actually dress out and play in games.
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I dunno man, I donāt care about Salaun. I know I know, heās young and raw and blah blah blah. I get it. Heās just not who I wanted to draft and Iām not particularly impressed.
Iād be stoked to be wrong on Salaun, but I just donāt see it working.
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If you can get three firsts for Melo you do it in a heartbeat. Even if itās two firsts and a good player, heāll yeah.
Kuminga and two firsts? Sure man.
Granted, to make GSW salary cap work with Melo, weād have to take on draymond and/or get a third team involved in this circus
fine by me
I would qualify those firsts. I donāt want 3 late firsts. they do no good. i need good firsts. so i am talking to teams like houston, okc, etc. teams that have other teams firsts that could be high picks.
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Yeah I completely agree. Thatās another example of why itās going to be very tricky and convoluted to trade Melo. Cap space issues, quality of draft pick compensation, which players theyāll send us that we would want, etc. Iād imagine involving a third team would be pretty unavoidable.
I just threw that one out as a general framework that will need to be tweaked quite a bit. Iāll need to take a dive at salary cap stuff over on spotrac.com
Edit: Given GSWās salary cap situation, I donāt see how they could avoid shipping off one of Draymond or Wiggins to make a Melo trade work. Both Wiggins and Draymond have player options for the 2026/27 season, and are then UFAās for the 2027/28 season.
Wiggins: 28m for the 2025/26 season with a 30m player option for 2026/27.
Green: 26m for the 2025/26 season with a 28m player option for 2026/27
- Kuminga comes with a 8m cap hit this season, and is a RFA for the 2025/26 season. And I donāt see how Kuminga would sign for anything less than 20m per season. (Which I think would be worth it)
- Wiggins or Green would without a doubt use their player options for the 2026/27 season. I absolutely do not want either of these guys on the team through 2027. Big no.
- If you factor in being stuck with Wiggins until 2027, Kumingaās 20ish million salary, and the quality of GSWās first round draft picksā¦it makes the trade less desirable.
- I donāt see how to make this work without a third team to facilitate.
Final thoughts, Meloās supermax cap hit really isnāt all that bad when compared to other current and upcoming supermax deals (38m, 41m, 43m, 46m through 2028/29 season. As much as I want to trade Melo for the sake of āresettingā, the idea of being stuck with Wiggins or Draymond through 2027 makes me nauseous. I like Kuminga quite a bit, but he alone doesnāt offset the negatives. And itās not like GSWās first rounders will be any good, like Chef mentioned.