Robinson is as tough as nails.
Smart, Robinson and Crowder = CBS type of players
but overall a weird trade unless the celts pry a 2nd also somehow from this trade
It's not really that weird. Nelson has an option for next year, and makes more money. This way Boston saves money for both this and probably next year.
yeah but why not then just keep Rivers then
I don't know that I understand what Rivers has to do this trade.
exactly. And how does this trade work. We are bundling Rivers with Nelson? I thought Rivers can only be traded individually
I'm glad Nelson will be gone. This is a weird trade though
Rivers has nothing to do with this trade. He has not yet been traded. This is a straight-up Nelson-for-Robinson swap, no more, no less. It's possible Robinson and Rivers could be packaged to LA, but pretty unlikely.
Both Rivers and Robinson could be sent to LA as a package for either two players who have salaries that match up with each individually, or for players making more, in which case a trade exception would be used to take the player coming back. For instance, we could trade Rivers, Robinson, and Zeller for DeAndre Jordan, because Jordan fits into the Rondo exception. We'd then get three small trade exceptions each for Rivers, Zeller, and Robinson.
I don't see the above happening, but it's was the most plausible example I could come up with.
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