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2018 NBA offseason

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A contender, yes. They aren’t beating the W’s with two SF’s as good as they are bc in this scenario you are giving up players for Kawhi and only getting one bigtime FA. You do get to sign Randle but you are a giving up a combination of Ball, Ingram and Kuzma maybe all of them. They would have some flexibility.

Say they sign Randle to a 4 year 60 mil. 15/yr which is about right.
PG 30 mil
Trade for Kawhi 30M but they give up Kuzma, Ingram and Ball straight up for him.

They have about 89M in salaries unless they can somehow move that Deng contract. If they could they would have closer to 30M to try and sign maybe Cousins with this duo. So still a very good roster but with Lebron it would be Warriors and Lakers at the top, possibly making the Lakers better. This roster isnt beating GS imo
They aren't beating the Warriors.

But, I'd give them a 50/50 chance against the Rockets.

The Cp3 injury bug and Harden quitting factors into that equation significantly.

I'll take the very good two way players over the great on offense guy, that doesn't do anything else, 9 times out of 10.
 

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Sign and trade? What would they give up?

The Heat are capped out, so the salaries have to match within 80% (at least 28.5M). It certainly won't be Whiteside, and Tyler Johnson is way overpaid (AND has a 15% trade kicker). Cavs will want Richardson, Winslow, and probably Dragic. Doesn't leave much in Miami for Lebron to play with.

I don't see that happening.
 

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The Heat are capped out, so the salaries have to match within 80% (at least 28.5M). It certainly won't be Whiteside, and Tyler Johnson is way overpaid (AND has a 15% trade kicker). Cavs will want Richardson, Winslow, and probably Dragic. Doesn't leave much in Miami for Lebron to play with.

I don't see that happening.

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That is A LOT of work if it isn’t a sign-and-trade. They would have to shed a lot of cap and what it makes it more difficult is that $25m from the Bosh contract is there if I am correct. Is there some way of a buyout to get rid of that, including that they are at $144M. I would think a sign and trade would be the only option or they deal half the team. Seems like a basically impossible task
 
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