Any Jokić trade would be complicated, with bidders needing to send between $44 million and $55.2 million in outgoing salary (the former would trigger a first-apron hard cap, the latter likely at the second-apron in most cases). For instance, the Los Angeles Lakers could manage enough outgoing salary with players like Dalton Knecht, Rui Hachimura, Jarred Vanderbilt, Gabe Vincent and Maxi Kleber. That’s an overwhelming top five with LeBron James, Austin Reaves, Dorian Finney-Smith, Dončić and Jokić, but the rest of the roster would mostly need to be players at that minimum (unless James chooses to opt out and re-sign at a discount to help add depth).
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Michael Redd: As you may have known, I tore my ACL back in 2009, 2010—back-to-back years here in Milwaukee. Unfortunately, freak accident—on Luke Ridnour’s foot the first time. And then in L.A., posting up Kobe, I tore it again. I continued to play a couple more seasons after that. The maintenance to continue to work on that was tough. And then I had kids, you know, who were growing up, and I wanted to be a part of their lives—kindergarten and on. I had a chance to keep playing. My agent called me and said a number of teams wanted my services when I was a free agent after the Phoenix year. And I went to my son’s room, and he was playing video games. I said, ‘Daddy has a chance to continue to play. Should I play?’ He started crying—’No, Daddy, no!’ He’s used to me being home. I called my agent and said, ‘It’s a wrap. It’s over.’ He said, ‘You sure? You can make this one.’ I said, ‘No. It’s over. It’s a wrap.’
Due to the shocking names involved in the deal, no executives believed it was a real trade that was about to happen. “But they tried to make it seem like nobody knew until the very last second. I think way more people knew, and I think it got around the league a little bit before it actually got reported,” Simmons added. “I think the consensus was there’s no way this is true because that can’t be what Dallas got for Luka; there’s no way; this can’t be true, and then it was true. “The instant reaction is, wait, they’re trading Luka? Why didn’t they shop him? Then the second is wait, Reaves isn’t in this? “That’s the whole trade? Then how they hid it from everybody and didn’t shop it, I guess. We’ll be talking about it forever. It’s one of the seminal moments of the 21st Century in the National Basketball Association, this stupid trade they made,” Simmons concluded.
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