Nets - Wizards 2.0

[Andrei Kirilenko]

^{Brooklyn Nets Send:}
96 Kawhi Leonard - $32,742,000 - $35,197,650 - $37,653,300 - $40,108,950

Total: $32,742,000


^{Washington Wizards Send:}
87 Bam Adebayo - $4,329,584 - $5,987,815
72 Michael K Gilchrist - $11,625,000 - $12,750,000
73 Dwight Powell - $9,901,395 - $10,643,999
Contract of Michael C Williams - $898,310
Draft rights to Moses Moody

Total: $26,754,289 (*125% = $33,442,861)



Notes:
- Trade can be queued until Dwight Powell PO decision if needed
- Kawhi Leonard has BRs regardless of when trade is processed as he qualifies for tradeable BRs under new rules


I accept, this trade is obviously worse for me than the last one but I think it still makes sense for my team. As I said in the last trade, this does a 2 very important things for me, which are making us more competitive this season and also alleviating all of my hard cap concerns next summer. With this current construction, I should be able to keep Kyrie - Booker - George - Bam - Poeltl together as a unit, with plenty cap space to fill out my bench, for the foreseeable future.

Say what you want about loyalty, trading Kawhi, etc., obviously I am not being loyal to him here so I probably deserve the heat. But at the end of the day I have a potential championship roster with 3 90+ players (Kyrie Booker George) so it really feels like a disservice to them to have Kawhi taking up $35m of cap and not playing for an entire year. I'm not sure what my title window is going to be with this group, but going back to my Paul George trade last year, my strategy has been to really go for the title instead of sitting back and crossing my fingers.

[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]

I accept. With Kawhi Leonard in my team, I'll have atleast 2 seasons to convince him to re-sign with us. I'm hoping with that 2 seasons, most if not all of my young guys to be atleast 80 in rating. If this trade will not convince you in pulling me out of Hall of Shame, reject it. Most of you think that I can't re-sign Bam Adebayo so this trade means that atleast I have 1 more year to prove that superstars will want to play in my team. I hope next year will be my last year of tanking. And in 2022-2023 will start my contending journey. ^^

[Ian Noble]

Without the 1sts I can definitely accept this deal. Good luck though Kareem, you'll need it!

[Bryan Colangelo]

I accept

[Walt Frazier]

I will accept, but I think Kareem is warned and hope he's aware that Kawhi could definitely leave. He left a team IRL that he won a championship with. So... Not even sure what the argument will be but we'll cross that when we get there. Be a great, great team by then, Kareem.

[Ian Noble]

Alex English
Danny Longley

[Danny Longley]

This already has three though Ian Noble

[Ian Noble]

Aug 15, 2021 19:20:50 GMT Danny Longley said:

This already has three though Ian Noble

My bad. Trade passed.

[George Gervin]

Trade #1 — similar to the points being made on AD to PHX, has a contract that can’t be traded (MCW) and therefore is illegal