Idea: Kris Humphries for Andris Biedrins

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The proposed trade is just an awful  idea.

It has three major negatives for a very small positive:

CONS:
 - replaces Humphries 12M expiring contract (which could be used to actually retrieve a player you actually _want_ up to 15M!) with a 9M expiring contract (which only matches to 11.25M).
 - Gives up a 1st round pick
 - replaces a serviceable, decent big man in Humphries with Biedrins -- a truly terrible, limited player who has no player value.

PROS:
 - cuts 3 Million off our cap number, saving ownership a lot more in luxury tax.

That's just a bad idea that you don't do unless your back is up against the wall at the trade deadline with a gun held to your head and your children held captive in the wild hills of remote Afghanistan and your stomache feels queasy because you ate some bad food at McDs and you really would rather just get this over with and run to sit on the pot so would people please stop pressuring you to make decisions and, and, and .. and you haven't found any other way to shed salary.

But there are lots of other, better ways to shed that salary.   I'm not even going to begin to try to go through all the scenarios.

First and foremost, Danny should be (and I'm sure he's working on) exploring a larger deal that exchanges N players for less than N players to reduce both roster and salary and improve the team.    There have been lots of ideas tossed around here and elsewhere and there are too many variables and moving parts to go into here.

Buy even if a larger deal doesn't happen, at the very least you can simply do some smaller deals such as paying cash and a future 2nd round pick to the Bucks to take on Crawford's contract.  They don't even have to keep him.  They can go ahead an buy him out if they don't want him on their 15 man.  They have roster slots at the moment and plenty of cap room and you'd be paying them off so it costs them nothing and they come out ahead.  It also moves them closer to the Salary floor.   They have to pay that difference anyway.   Heck, I think they have a shortage of guards anyway.

Do the same with Brooks with Philly and you have fully addressed both the roster surplus (by getting rid of our two extra SGs) and shed 3.3M in salary.   That gets you below the LT threshold and saves you a ton more in LT money.   And you would not have given up any major assets.


There are literally probably a dozen other possible moves.