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Zion Can Save the Tank

KqWIN said:
Sportrac has it as follows:

20% - Weight. body fat, injury benchmarks (right foot injury) - These are unclear, especially the right foot injury specification, but I'm assuming he clears this benchmark.
40% - 41 games played
20% - 51 games played
20% - 61 games played

Guarantee date for each season is 7/15. So for the 2025-26 season, it all gets guaranteed 7/15/25 (after the moratorium).

If we traded for Zion, I would do so under the impression that we're guaranteeing his salary for next season and just trying it out for at least one year. That would eat up our cap space, so if you're hoping to win the Grimes sweepstakes a trade like this could be a barrier.
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MLE might get Grimes... it might not... but it might be enough.

I would want to buy low enough that you'd be okay waiving him this offseason if you didn't like what you saw... that might be too low of a price for the Pelicans BUT this is Joe Dumars so maybe?
 
Zion should be pretty motivated to come back and play 31 more games. I don't know if he can do it. Might be like a 4-6 week injury then he'd have to play like 75-80% of the games. That would throw a kink into my tank goal with the deal.

I think I prefer just offloading the vets in a Clips deal that is more simple.
 
I wouldn't hate it, out of the Trae/Zion/Ja trio of youngish locker room messes I would bet on Zion the most. Probably would be noticeably worse swapping Nurkic/Svi/Kyle for young player minutes, as sad of a statement as that is.

Don't intend to understand the contract guarantees, but two seasons after this season isn't much given our current trajectory. Plus big expirings have value of their own in this cap environment.
 
jom2003 said:
I'd rather take the Giddey/Avdija/Daniels approach and gamble on folks like Ivey/Sochan/Dick
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I didnt see you as a Sochan Dick kind of guy. But to each their own I guess.

Those 2023 draft jokes were good. Anthony Black and/or Dariq Whitehead should have been a required pairing(s) with Gradey Dick. But I never put Sochan Dick together. Seems like a great pairing.
 
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