Bored on a Plane Part IV: Offseason
Bored on a Plane Part IV: Offseason
On our return flight, so we are once again…bored on a plane. Today’s article will focus on day 1 of FA and other offseason movements.
1. FA Day 1
You wanted fireworks? You got em! Joel Embiid spurns a monster 140M offer from Hoff Cuban and the Mavs to head to in-state rival Houston at an AAV of 21.875M. Houston landed another interesting player in Isaac Okoro. Some say he miiiiiiiiiiiight be better than Devin Booker (they’d be wrong). But Isaac lands in Houston on a pretty fair deal for what he brings and should be a positive asset from day 1 for a team that has been relatively rudderless.
In other star news, Markelle Fultz returned to the Clippers on a monster 7 year deal sending them directly into the hard cap. With no other cap space teams out there and not a ton of RP, Bobby is either going to have to churn out content asap or one of Boban/Hayward/Mitchell/Hart are probably on their way out for some real discounted prices.
Staying in the Pacific, the SoNicks were able to retain star wing Zach LaVine and responded to this kindness by immediately putting him on the trade block. Not much loyalty in that front office unless you’re Brunson, Diop, or Dirk.
Keeping their cores…the Heat brought back Chris Boucher on a friendly 7.5M AAV deal that will slot in nicely to their cap sheet. Anthony Bennett goes back to Detroit and Feet returns to Atlanta on one year deals. In the Big Apple, Nav was able to retain his front court duo of Biyombo and Gafford for one large and one moderate one year contracts. Pretty sure Nav’s roster is Tyus, Jalen, Turner and 12 bigs. Up the coast, Boston brought back Taurean Prince on a beautiful 1.8M AAV deal and also retained Saddiq Bey. Next, the central division had some key front court guys return with Robert Williams signing a rather backloaded contract and Kazemi coming back to the Queen City for a cool 12.5M. Finally, two western conference teams really bet on some long term upside of SGs who truly haven’t shown much to be worth these deals at this point. Vancouver signed Desmond Bane to 44M over 5 years and the Timberwolves, known for paying a pretty penny in retention, gave IQ 58M over 6 years despite a relative lack of production. The lack of cap room has really made it easy to keep guys just above the MLE.
MLEs abound! Duncan Robinson softens the Embiid blow by joining forces with the palest Baltic front court ever down in Dallas. Skal returns after winning a title. Darius Garland heads to Cleveland to see if a little real life can wear off and save his SLN career. Hassan Whiteside takes up Brook Lopez’ mantle as old big man behind KAT and Beef Stew heads south to Orlando where his feisty personality should fit in well.
2. FA Days Ahead
Who’s left you say? Well no one has cap space, so expect some of the most absurd value deals on the way.
Victor Oladipo - Warriors Birds
Paul George - Kings Birds
Tyrese Haliburton - Pistons Birds
Jaden McDaniels - Bucks Birds
Buddy Hield - Bulls Birds
Julius Randle - Knicks Birds
James Wiseman - Heat Birds
Jusuf Nurkic - Hawks Birds
Obi Toppin - Rockets Birds
Expect all of these guys to find deals in the 6-9M range clear of some MLEs turning a few of them into some of the more valuable trade assets around. Haliburton has a chance to be the Tony Parker deal of this generation. All of these guys could and should garner MLEs from most of the league.
MLEs to send:
Greg Monroe - solid big who has always rebounded and is high positional defense with some stocks. You’d think he’d be on the prior list but Seattle can’t afford to bring him back, so he’s up for grabs
Jarred Vanderbilt - 1st in FTr this year and the top ranked rebounder left. He garnered some MLEs last FA, expect a few this year
DeMarcus Cousins - the Cavs are tanking this year so idk if he’ll be brought back. Boogie is old and turns it over but he can be really useful in the right role. Would be fun to see an inside team get him and try him as a 3!
Ryan Anderson - Hotter than a pistol some would say
Terrence Jones - very stocky, low turnover back up big who doesn’t rebound much but has found some use with multiple winning teams
Jimmy Butler - still solid
Untapped Potential Guys Who Haven’t Gotten Major Run
Payton Pritchard
Kira Lewis Jr
James Bouknight
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl
Cam Reddish
3. Fake Trades
Clippers Hard Cap
Pistons Trade
Brandon Jennings
Top 4 protected DET 26
Clippers Trade
Donovan Mitchell
Jean Montero (NDL) Salary
Pistons add a real SG to pair with whoever they choose between Cade and Tyrese allowing them to flip the other for a stud. The Clippers get a potentially useful pick and can backfill Donovan with Gordon Hayward
Pacers Stay Tongin
Pacers Trade
Tyler Herro
Miles Bridges
IND 29
Sonics Trade
Jaylen Brown
Jaylen Brown becomes a younger microwave scorer while adding a useful rebounding wing and a future asset. Meanwhile Indiana gets a low turnover, great positional defending SG to slot next to Fox.
The Myles keep Turnin
Knicks Trade
Myles Turner
Blazers Trade
Lauri Markkanen
Dwight Powell
POR FRP 25, 28-30
1500 RP
Should Quady have gone after KD? Would that have propelled the Blazers into their first finals appearance? The Knicks are staring down the barrel of a lot of expiring deals and an aging roster. Here Quady gets a star, not without resigning risk, and Nav gets an adequate replacement he can build with Jalen Green or sell for a full tear down in the near future while starting asset collection with 5 POR FRPs.
PG to the Mountains
Kings Trade
Paul George (resigned to 11m)
Jazz Trade
Derrick Jones Jr
Jesse accumulates a stock lord to build the STOCKton Kings with Winslow/GP2/Okogie etc. Ralph gets a very good two way wing getting older to try to keep his pick from conveying at #1.
1. FA Day 1
You wanted fireworks? You got em! Joel Embiid spurns a monster 140M offer from Hoff Cuban and the Mavs to head to in-state rival Houston at an AAV of 21.875M. Houston landed another interesting player in Isaac Okoro. Some say he miiiiiiiiiiiight be better than Devin Booker (they’d be wrong). But Isaac lands in Houston on a pretty fair deal for what he brings and should be a positive asset from day 1 for a team that has been relatively rudderless.
In other star news, Markelle Fultz returned to the Clippers on a monster 7 year deal sending them directly into the hard cap. With no other cap space teams out there and not a ton of RP, Bobby is either going to have to churn out content asap or one of Boban/Hayward/Mitchell/Hart are probably on their way out for some real discounted prices.
Staying in the Pacific, the SoNicks were able to retain star wing Zach LaVine and responded to this kindness by immediately putting him on the trade block. Not much loyalty in that front office unless you’re Brunson, Diop, or Dirk.
Keeping their cores…the Heat brought back Chris Boucher on a friendly 7.5M AAV deal that will slot in nicely to their cap sheet. Anthony Bennett goes back to Detroit and Feet returns to Atlanta on one year deals. In the Big Apple, Nav was able to retain his front court duo of Biyombo and Gafford for one large and one moderate one year contracts. Pretty sure Nav’s roster is Tyus, Jalen, Turner and 12 bigs. Up the coast, Boston brought back Taurean Prince on a beautiful 1.8M AAV deal and also retained Saddiq Bey. Next, the central division had some key front court guys return with Robert Williams signing a rather backloaded contract and Kazemi coming back to the Queen City for a cool 12.5M. Finally, two western conference teams really bet on some long term upside of SGs who truly haven’t shown much to be worth these deals at this point. Vancouver signed Desmond Bane to 44M over 5 years and the Timberwolves, known for paying a pretty penny in retention, gave IQ 58M over 6 years despite a relative lack of production. The lack of cap room has really made it easy to keep guys just above the MLE.
MLEs abound! Duncan Robinson softens the Embiid blow by joining forces with the palest Baltic front court ever down in Dallas. Skal returns after winning a title. Darius Garland heads to Cleveland to see if a little real life can wear off and save his SLN career. Hassan Whiteside takes up Brook Lopez’ mantle as old big man behind KAT and Beef Stew heads south to Orlando where his feisty personality should fit in well.
2. FA Days Ahead
Who’s left you say? Well no one has cap space, so expect some of the most absurd value deals on the way.
Victor Oladipo - Warriors Birds
Paul George - Kings Birds
Tyrese Haliburton - Pistons Birds
Jaden McDaniels - Bucks Birds
Buddy Hield - Bulls Birds
Julius Randle - Knicks Birds
James Wiseman - Heat Birds
Jusuf Nurkic - Hawks Birds
Obi Toppin - Rockets Birds
Expect all of these guys to find deals in the 6-9M range clear of some MLEs turning a few of them into some of the more valuable trade assets around. Haliburton has a chance to be the Tony Parker deal of this generation. All of these guys could and should garner MLEs from most of the league.
MLEs to send:
Greg Monroe - solid big who has always rebounded and is high positional defense with some stocks. You’d think he’d be on the prior list but Seattle can’t afford to bring him back, so he’s up for grabs
Jarred Vanderbilt - 1st in FTr this year and the top ranked rebounder left. He garnered some MLEs last FA, expect a few this year
DeMarcus Cousins - the Cavs are tanking this year so idk if he’ll be brought back. Boogie is old and turns it over but he can be really useful in the right role. Would be fun to see an inside team get him and try him as a 3!
Ryan Anderson - Hotter than a pistol some would say
Terrence Jones - very stocky, low turnover back up big who doesn’t rebound much but has found some use with multiple winning teams
Jimmy Butler - still solid
Untapped Potential Guys Who Haven’t Gotten Major Run
Payton Pritchard
Kira Lewis Jr
James Bouknight
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl
Cam Reddish
3. Fake Trades
Clippers Hard Cap
Pistons Trade
Brandon Jennings
Top 4 protected DET 26
Clippers Trade
Donovan Mitchell
Jean Montero (NDL) Salary
Pistons add a real SG to pair with whoever they choose between Cade and Tyrese allowing them to flip the other for a stud. The Clippers get a potentially useful pick and can backfill Donovan with Gordon Hayward
Pacers Stay Tongin
Pacers Trade
Tyler Herro
Miles Bridges
IND 29
Sonics Trade
Jaylen Brown
Jaylen Brown becomes a younger microwave scorer while adding a useful rebounding wing and a future asset. Meanwhile Indiana gets a low turnover, great positional defending SG to slot next to Fox.
The Myles keep Turnin
Knicks Trade
Myles Turner
Blazers Trade
Lauri Markkanen
Dwight Powell
POR FRP 25, 28-30
1500 RP
Should Quady have gone after KD? Would that have propelled the Blazers into their first finals appearance? The Knicks are staring down the barrel of a lot of expiring deals and an aging roster. Here Quady gets a star, not without resigning risk, and Nav gets an adequate replacement he can build with Jalen Green or sell for a full tear down in the near future while starting asset collection with 5 POR FRPs.
PG to the Mountains
Kings Trade
Paul George (resigned to 11m)
Jazz Trade
Derrick Jones Jr
Jesse accumulates a stock lord to build the STOCKton Kings with Winslow/GP2/Okogie etc. Ralph gets a very good two way wing getting older to try to keep his pick from conveying at #1.
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