Crowder is worth more than that bc of his contract for another 3 years, 3point shooting at almost40%, and solid 2-way player. He has a top5 contract in the entire NBA. Since we have Tatum, Brown, Morris, Gordon Hayward, and even Semi we are pretty set at his position...I think maybe a good option would be to revisit Philly and get them to lift some of the protections, possibly add another pick, and then throw in Okafor for us to take a flier on. I will admit that I have a bad feeling about the protections and could see us getting screwed in 2019 and ending up with a late lottery pick or something above 16.....
The cap went down from what everyone expected it to be. Had it not I believe the trade we did with the Sixers would have been bigger...and we would have got more assets. But we needed room for Hayward and adding another players salary would have been very difficult. But if the cap was a few million higher I think we could have waitied Philly out a bit more and gotten 1 more additional pick plus a flier on Okafor. The pick could have been, in addition to the pick we already acquired, the sixers 2021 1st or something like that.