this is not true.

Moody scores 2p unassisted 37% of the time and 3p unassisted 10% of the time.

Podz scores 2p unassisted 45% of the time and 3p unassisted 24% of the time.

Shot creation is a huge part of why Moody struggles to find a role in the offense that isn't simply catch and shoot.

2025/26 is gonna cost them $0.5b in total roster cost.

long term, they're gonna have to first let the Horford and then the Porzingis salary slots lapse without replacing them with other expensive players.

I think their window is still open once Al retires and Kristaps leaves, but I think their window for the current roster cost is just this coming season and next. after that they'll have to figure some stuff out.

first step would probably to trade Holiday, eventually.

if the Bulls agreed to send a serious amount of money to cover his contract or simply bought him out, I'd be interested in him for a few million dollars for a possible NBA reboot.

I think it's as likely that he never plays NBA ball again as him coming back strong though, so I would never pay his current salary.

that's my point. if they want the TPE for Lauri, they can't add any players to the trade (not without a 3rd team, anyway).

TPE has to be equivalent to the required salary matching, which doesn't have to perfectly match Lauri's salary. I think the Warriors could send as little as $10.5m to match his salary, under the new rules.

so if the goal is to take back no salary for Klay, which generates the TPE that is suspiciously the right size for Markkanen's salary, then that trade would have to involve no Warriors players being sent out, right?

so we'd be talking about dealing the 2026/2028/2030(top 20) picks and 2025/2027/2029/2031 swaps?

State income taxes are relatively low compared to federal income taxes. Texas, however, has zero income tax, so the difference works out to a couple million or thereabouts for Klay (per year).

I doubt the TPE angle quite a lot. Both teams gunning for Klay would be hard-capped at the first apron, so them shedding salary in the trade would be a dire necessity for both of them.

price?

agreed. I think we’d have to take him to get Dalton.

it was his max possible extension.

I suspect they'd have to take the Vincent contract off the Laker's hands instead of Vando, but we could use some tough guard depth anyway.

Celtics roster is going to cost $0.5b next year once the luxury tax jump happens next season

I like Rui, we just have too many guys at the 4 right now. If the team wants to trade Kuminga somewhere and get good value, but otherwise how are we playing everyone?

yeah, that's kinda my thinking. if you want a movement shooter who can contribute this season, you might as well upgrade from the rookie to Klay.

That might be the only deal I'd be happy with.

We could take the Gabe Vincent salary dump and Knecht and the Lakers get a better movement shooter for the coming season than the rookie figures to be. Warriors get an actual asset out of the deal, rather than just some borderline rotation guys who are slightly overpaid.

if Klay actually wants to go to the Lakers and is willing to take less salary to allow them to squeeze under the 1st apron, the first thing I'm asking for in the trade is Dalton Knecht.

I do not think the Lakers thing is possible, not without the Lakers dumping other salary. I also do not suspect we'd get back players like PJ or Hardy from the Mavericks.

I think the Mavericks deal would be Josh Green + either Maxi Kleber or they'd somehow fold it into the THJ trade and we'd probably get some draft capital back.

Assuming LeBron is willing to take a $10m discount and Klay signs a deal worth $20m in the first year the Lakers would have to cut another $18m from the payroll even before putting together the salaries to match Klay's deal. So that would be them salary dumping Gabe Vincent, JHS, & Wood and then trading us D'Lo or Rui.

They'd be getting rid of a lot of players from their roster and would be hard-capped, so they'd be really hard to replace. If Klay is willing to go to the Lakers for less money, then it changes the math a little, but it also removes the possibility of getting the more expensive guys (D'Lo or Rui) back.

Anyone think we could get Knecht back from the Lakers?

The post is specifically making the claim that the 2016 CBA is what allowed the Warriors to add a fourth max salary slot, which is not the case.

At least prior to the new CBA, every single team could draft four guys worth paying serious money and could choose to do so. There was nothing special about the 2016 CBA, the lack of cap smoothing, or anything else that gave the Warriors an unfair advantage.

Your team could carry four max slots if they cared to pay the tax associated.

Yes, I think Moody is worth $9-12m per year.

bird rights on Maxey

This isn’t accurate.

Warriors could have just signed Harrison Barnes to his max rookie extension (as the Mavs did after he was traded there) and they would have had the same number of slots even if the cap had been smoothed and KD had never signed.

i thought he was strong as a starter at the end of the year (until the play-in, anyway), but the problem is that whenever he got determined to take bad shots over and over again, he was taking shots away from an offense that could generate better looks.

the real reason he was great off the bench is that there wasn't the same opportunity cost, he was taking shots away from worse players. defense aside, i don't think it's impossible for Klay to be a starting quality offensive player for the next couple years, but it would require him accepting a completely different mindset and i don't see that as being likely.

I only saw a few games of his, but he was absolutely getting roasted in them.

He’s on the wrong side of 35.

LeBron taking a $30m cut to sign Klay for $20m would mean LeBron is making…$20m. There’s no way that happens.