Realistic Trade Scenarios involving the #5 pick?

They’re already in Lux Tax territory and signing the #11 pick will just put them deeper in the hole. I would offer to take Peja and either Collison or Thorton and the 11th pick for a protected future 2nd rounder.

Peja and either one of Collison or Thornton saves them $15M to $15.5M. The 11th pick saves them $3.5M because they are already of the lux tax so the salary is doubled and they’re another $2M over the tax already so. $15M + $3.5M +$2M means we save them $20.5M which puts them under the Salary Cap. No a bad deal for a late lottery pick and a rookie contract.

Peja will cost $14M for one year, but if you average it over the 3 yrs remaining on Collison’s rookie contract and the 4 years of the rookie contract of the 11th pick.it averages out to about $2M extra a year per player. and, that’s assuming we cant dump Peja as an expiring at the trade deadline.

We could also offer to take Songala of their hands for his $4.8M plus the 11th pick, but any of the other talent would be out of the question.

Last year everyone thought Collison wouldn’t be anything but a career back-up & a late 1st round pick at best. Now he’s more valuable than a #5 pick in a pretty deep draft?

You present a completely ridiculous scenario that nets us the #3 & #4 pick, plus a couple of other pretty solid players, and we still end up with Francisco Garcia as a starter?

I thought you were really dreaming big until I saw that.

Ya he had flashes in the playoffs, but that’s what got Ariza his contract and look at how well he continues to play. Now, Ariza and Hill aren’t the same player nor necessarily have the same trajectory, but the point is don’t over pay for potential. And don’t sell short our current draft position either.

Just let Petrie do his thing and don’t fret over what you think is good/bad talent at the 5. Try to envision those old Maxwell commercials, put on a scarf and some sunglasses, sit in the club chair and wait to be blown away.

First Cousins could go as early as #2. Assuming he’s available at #3 and Minny wants him at number 4 than they probably don’t need Hawes. I’m pretty sure no one expects NJ to pick Cousins since they already have Lopez. So, if Minny wants Cousins and the 76’ers don’t take Cousins at #2, then Minny can be pretty sure he’ll be available to him at #4, so they’re not going to trade down.

Now, if Minny doesn’t want Cousins, why would they want Hawes? And if they want Johnson they’re unlikely to trade down and take the chance that we pass on Cousins and take Johnson, leaving them with Hawes and Cousins or another 2nd tier player instead of Johnson.

Finally, the main prize of your plan is that NJ trades off the #3 pick for cap space and a mid and late draft pick and not even lottery picks. The problem is they need cap space and the two picks eat up some of the cap space they gained by us picking up 3 of their players. And, the final problem with the plan is that NJ may not be able to sign 2 max lottery picks but they can’t talk to the free agents until after the draft. and therefore may decide that it’s safer to keep their pick and go for 1 fa.

The only thing your plan insures is that we give Hawes away for 2 draft picks assuming Minny does the deal, That sounds like a better deal for Minny than for us.
Way too uncertain and complicated and not something GP ever does.

the “fan coin”. Unfortunately, it often comes up “edges”.