ShooterSays

Assuming we lose Bey, Cap and picks - Trae / Mills / Kobe DJM / Bogi Hunter / AJ KAT / JJ / Gueye OO / Bruno Yes. We can absolutely win a championship with this roster. We just saw Jimmy carry a bunch of undrafted players to the finals.

I'm not worried about KAT's salary...even though it honestly isn't great. We'd be consolidating JC's $25M and Cap's $20M with DJM taking about $10M less. That's $55M in savings. And KAT is a significant upgrade.

Yup and not many teams will be able to stop an offense of - Trae / DJM / Hunter / KAT / OO

If we're building around Trae / DJM / OO .... which it really seems like we are. KAT makes more sense for this roster than JB. And this is coming from one of the bigger JB fans on this board. Our defense will be fine if Trae plays like he did when Quin got here and DJM, Hunter, and OO all play like we know they can play on that end.

I also remember someone breaking the Capela trade on here days before it happened.

Those jerseys are sad.

You wouldn’t trade OO and AJ for a top 10 player in the league? That’s wild bro.

I agree and I wouldn’t hesitate to bring JB here. I would trade anybody and everybody other than Trae. You do that for young, all-NBA talent. I’d imagine Boston would want Bey, AJ, and OO as the young players plus a pick or 2. OO fits well with KP and Bey replaces JB in the starting 5. Trae / DJM / Brown / JJ / Cap is a really good starting 5. But I don’t know if that’s better than - Trae / DJM / Hunter / KAT / OO I’d be happy with either of these scenarios. I want to win now and both of these are win-now moves. Go Hawks!!!

For sure. The longer they go without getting an extension done, the higher eyebrows will be raised. Everyone knows the number…it’s THE max. So what’s taking so long?

I agree. DJM taking less and a year early leads me to believe they have a deal in the pipeline.

Are you paying attention to superstars in the NBA right now? If they don’t want to play for team A, they won’t. Dame has been a key part of that franchise for more than a decade. Probably has a nice mansion there, family is probably rooted in that community, and even he’s like get me out of here. Why would Jaylen Brown want any part of that? He’ll just veto any trade to a team he doesn’t want to be a part of.

Dallas seems like the most likely 3rd team for Capela. The fanbase is calling for one. 110K followers by the way.

I don’t think the trade can happen without us finding a 3rd team. Minny isn’t going to take Cap back. Bogi can’t be traded until September. The salaries just don’t work without one of them being included. Need a 3rd team for Cap. Edit - to add, Supes original rumor specifically said Minny doesn’t want Dre.

We gotta keep one of Dre / Bey

This. JJ's 99.9 percentile best outcome probably isn't as good as KAT is now. Same goes for AJ compared to Jaylen Brown.

There does seem to be an unusually high amount of chatter on JB today on Twitter.

Losing AJ, JJ, and OO would be handicapping our future. I don't consider losing Bey and a couple firsts that will be in the twenties handicapping our future.

JC was at $25M, Cap at $20M, DJM probably just took $10M less. Boom. There's your KAT money.

Correct, but he's the win-now play which is what we should be doing.

Look at Quin's body language. Trae's smile. These 2 definitely have a good bond.

I agree with subbing Mathews for Vit. I wasn’t too concerned about the fillers when I threw this together.

I mean it’s not great like the Gobert or Mitchel trade was for Utah last summer but teams aren’t making that mistake again. And compound that with KAT’s contract and this might be the best they can do to get out of cap hell. Some cap relief, 2 young promising players, and 2 FRP’s.

Like they have to take some salary back and this saves them $9M and then they can dump TH Jr later.

They’re going to have to take on some kind of salary to make this work. TH Jr can play and becomes an expiring next summer that they’ll be able to move if not sooner at the deadline.

I could see to the T Wolves with Bey which saves us JJ. Not sure who sends out the 2nd FRP in this situation.