Last time I checked there was essentially no way to sign a max player and also keep Favors. Sadly.
We’d have to be the one giving up the second rounder to move Exum. Maybe a couple of them.We could sell Exum for a second rounder, then drop Favors and resign him at 4 year with the first year at 12.5 with max increases every year. (14.5 if we could somehow dump Bradley.) We lose Rubio, Thabo, and Udoh, which (besides Rubio) we may be able to bring back with exceptions. Korver is a tradeable contract as well.
Kemba at $28 million per year < Brodgon at $17 million per year
Kemba at $28 million per year ?=? Brodgon at $24 million per year
Kemba at $44 million per year < S&Trade value for the Hornets
Kemba at $28 million per year for 5 years in his prime > Conley at $33 million per year for one year above 30+ age
I think that Kemba and Donovan would be like Lillard and McCollum are for the Blazers. Unstoppable. But is our defense good enough with Kemba? I am not sure. If he wasn't relied on to score as much would he divert more energy to the defense? Probably. But we like to sign highly efficient, two way players. Brogdon is a highly efficient two way player who would come for less and is entering his prime as well. Kemba would be fun but expensive. Brogdon would be more of a budgetary player and probably a better fit.
We’d have to be the one giving up the second rounder to move Exum. Maybe a couple of them.
What about the biannual exception?
We’d have to be the one giving up the second rounder to move Exum. Maybe a couple of them.
I think his value then and his value now are two separate things.If Exum had that little value, Memphis would not have insisted on getting him in the Conley trade.
We would still have the "room" exception which is something like 4.5 million (which we could split up if we wanted.) If we found a way to trade for Conley before July, I think, we would not drop below the cap and all salary can options would be available. Just have to check when Rubio's contract ends. The Jazz are generally pretty cagy about the start dates of their contracts for this reason, if I remember correctly.
I think his value then and his value now are two separate things.
A new season-ending injury + surgery. I mean, even @Jazz and @utahjazzz have gone MIA.He was injured at the trade deadline, and is injured now. Why would his value suddenly drop?
It's an albatross when you have cap-space, which, hey, the Jazz will have and they knew they'd have.We'd have to get something back. Exum at 10 million really isn't that big of an albatross. Someone would jump on that if all they had to give was a second.
Acquired another injury that seems even more bewildering and more serious than the one he had at the time.He was injured at the trade deadline, and is injured now. Why would his value suddenly drop?
A) I doubt we could trade Exum for a second rounder given his salary and his injury historyWe could sell Exum for a second rounder, then drop Favors and resign him at 4 year with the first year at 12.5 with max increases every year. (14.5 if we could somehow dump Bradley.) We lose Rubio, Thabo, and Udoh, which (besides Rubio) we may be able to bring back with exceptions. Korver is a tradeable contract as well.
A) That was before yet another serious injuryIf Exum had that little value, Memphis would not have insisted on getting him in the Conley trade.
You simply cannot get him and keep our depth.This is a dream signing for Utah. I don't expect it to happen but if it did....I mean that is a legit title contender. Especially if you think about how KD is likely to leave the Warriors, thus evening out the playing field quite a bit.
Not only does Donovan get more space to work with...but so does Kemba. Charlotte's roster is all trash besides Kemba, so he would get more clean looks as well.
Let's also not forget that BOTH of these guys can
1: Go off huge on any given night.
2: Work incredibly well with such a great screen setter like Rudy.
DM+Rudy+Kemab=Our big three, and that's not counting our depth, unity and last but definitely not least...our coaching. I'm dead serious when I say that getting Kemba takes us to the WCF if not the NBA finals