Beal would be very interesting with Embiid. That I'd like to see. I also think Kawhi would be a much better fit.
you do understand what hard capping is right? you cant add anyone period. you are cut off from transactions. You still have to fill out a roster. Harden and CP3s salary are about to increase as well. And capela will be on the books too. We cant add another star via FA or sign and trade. Only way we realistically can is a straight trade and have bird rights
Agreed Raptors losing at home was way more surprising than brooklyn beating philly. Brooklyn isnt that bad of a team.
Again who will you add with your little capspace that is better than Butler? If you cant have anyone better than Butler then whats the issue if you get hard capped? We can do a sign and trade for Butler if need be, Sixers would probably take EG then let Butler walk for nothing. The rest of the team you can fill out with vet mins, I dont care.
Brooklyn just has DLo and unknown players Sixers were looking at 3 max players and 1 almost max player. Its def a huge upset.
Nobody's hankering to pay Joe Harris the max like Embiid, Simmons and Butler. Hell, some people were saying Harris was due for a max as well.
Not correct in the slightest. There is a possible scenario to acquiring butler. But this scenario needs basic assumptions and hypotheticals. 1) Butler makes it very clear to Philly he is not staying. - Entirely plausible. He may not believe in the coaching or team fit to succeed. In addition it is known that butler and harden are boys. I think from a team dynamic standpoint butler would prefer being around his contemporaries like similar aged harden cp3 tucker than the kids of philly. 2) Butler is ok with opt in and trade to htx. - This part of the plan is dependent on butlers desire of money vs. wins. Houston in no way should opt for a sign and trade. It hard caps us at the apron and we would likely be unable to perform the deal or even use mle or any exceptions. We couldn’t field a roster. We will not engage in any snt scenario. However opt in and trade is entirely plausible with a Max offer in one year. We have shown indication with an older and more fragile player in cp3. Money has proven he is loyal to his word. If butler wants to win in htx he has to opt in and trade. Which I think he’ll consider since we have a strong team in his hometown with commitments to winning and paying our stars. 3) Butler tells philly opt in and trade me to htx or I’m walking and you get nothing. - incentivize philly to do the deal 4) Rox have multiple options at trading for butler - sign and trade shump+Nene 4 frp. If we retain shump at his cap hold of 12 million (which he’ll sign since who the hell will give him 12 million) we can snt to philly so they can recoup any kind of traceable assets. Expiring contracts and multiple firsts are great for philly gym to waste again. - if philly doesn’t want shump and demands ego ( which I can’t see them doing since they have no leverage) we can do above trade with less picks. Or consider 3way with Washington for Beal to go to philly us to get butler and combo of shump/ego/philly assets/nene to Washington. 5) I think we can get butler easily with scenario one and if we desperately need him with ego. But in best case scenario our locked in roster looks l8ke this Cp3/ego Harden/ego Butler/Clark Tucker Capela/hartenstein With the MLE left to retain house. I think green and faried will stay for minimums. But regardless there are great vets in free agent pool. I can see people like Gibson/McGee/Ariza/greens/rivers easily staying for bench depth.
Thanks, great read. If this is indeed possible, did you also consider how would those players mesh on court together, especially with Butler's ego and lack of touches for him? I agree he would more likely play with Harden and CP3 who already know how much work they have to put in as opposed to someone like Simmons who is more interested in tweeting about fans.
I'm going to go ahead and call it, if Philly loses again at home, they will get swept! This is a big must win for them.
Chris Paul was also better than Butler is now and got his reputation. Butler can't dish it out, all he does and cares about is getting his touches. I wouldn't want both if I didn't have someone like Harden.
