Trade deadlines now a days are either the wackiest trades(4+ picks for a non all nba first team player) ever or the most random stuff

And I’m here for it. Teams should be punished for bad contracts.

I realize it’s fashionable to treat the apron era like EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED, but the reality is that the luxury tax was always sufficiently punitive to scare most teams out of it without these new incentives.

Prior to the aprons, there was never more than one or 2 teams operating in any given year at 2nd level aprons, and it was rarely the same team in any given year.

I’ll never forget the year the Raps won the championship, they gave up a 2nd at the deadline to move Greg Monroe, instead of just waiving him and eating his salary. This was the year they were really going for it!! They not only got Kawhi, they made the deadline move for Gasol. And to save 2 months of a minimum salary, they gave up a second round pick.

EDIT: For instance, Cleveland’s moves in the last few days (Hunter, Garland, and Ball going out), has reduced their tax bill from \(165M to \)65M. They’ve saved ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. I think that’s a more powerful incentive than second apron mumbo jumbo.

At least it’s not another first-rounder this time lol

Right? I was actually waiting on this

haven’t watched zo play in years. has he been doing a buncha nothing for ya?

He’s getting waived and coming home lol

Yeah, I like Lonzo, but White and Conley are better for our situation.

Huh, I think my dad had a VHS called that back in the day

But a 2 Balls shirt would go hard

GMs have matching tattoos

Friendship. Friendship? Again??

It just works

Fun fact, in the 90s when the movie Witness was released, several of the European dubbings in various languages used the word for Mormon instead of Amish (which may not have even existed in those languages). Since it was a decent sized release starring Harrison Ford, it led to a significant number of Europeans thinking Mormons were Amish

There’s actually a ton of Mormon history not too far from Cleveland (relatively speaking). Kirtland specifically.

You and me both

This was expected but officially spending the few remaining assets to me signals that move might be close too. I’m scared

They’re close enough they don’t really have to duck the apron this season. With the projected cap, this + converting Tomlin should have them starting under the 2nd apron for next off season.

They weren’t over the apron last season, so they don’t have to worry about being a repeater yet.

Editing to say that with Harden’s contract they would either need to waive him in the off season, or re-sign him to a lower annual amount over 2 years to stay under. I think Harden’s salary jumps \(10M next season if he stays on contract without being waived. He’s only guaranteed like \)13M though.

We actually need him though lol, he’s like our only guy big enough to be a true small forward

He’ll be here he’s the only sf on the team

Then we’ll finally have 0 SFs on this roster

Say less. come home bby 🤞

Gabe would kill his whole family for even present Lonzo’s defense.

He’d be a better POA defender, and that’s a massive improvement lmao

Please. Anyone but Gabe Vincent

You haven’t watched Gabe Vincent

Heating up leftovers

Even top 5-6 would put us in a really good place 

Baked beans with little sausages in them

Whatever it is it’s starting to smell good

Ice cube cereal

Disposable oatmeal packets w/ apple cinnamon flavor

Be a playin team next year and see how our young guys do when there are actual stakes involved.

There are 450 active NBA players at a time. He’s 460th in field goal percentage at 29%

It’s not an NBA trade deadline without Utah becoming a trade dumping ground at least once.

I thought he was going to be bad for us and I way overestimated him.

All the salary that was dumped.

Cleveland needs to shed payroll to get under the punitive second apron so they can duck all the penalties under the current CBA.

The Cavs wanted to stop paying for Lonzo contract so they are giving second round picks to another team so they’ll pay for him instead. The Cavs team is so expensive that this is a good choice especially because Lonzo has been soooooooo bad for them and they have a lot of players who can take his minutes.

The Jazz are like “oh cool picks just for us to pay a guy?”

I’d be happy if we traded one of our widgets for a doohickey.

minus the dinglehopper

They have to send something back, but that can be fake stuff or rights to players that will never play in the US

We will send a BS amount of “cash considerations.”

this is what 4-5 years of tanking does to a man

They need to free up a roster spot to convert Tomlin’s two-way