Aloha,
Just read an another article that brought up a possible conspiracy theory. It mentioned how the Bucks and Kings got busted when a deal arranged prior to free agency was exposed and they lost some draft picks. Now for it to work Dennis’ agent would have had to convince Dennis that no one was going to pay him Lowery money. The Wizards do need a starting quality point guard now. If they agreed to sign for around 18.5 mil then the Lakers trade him to the Wizards who send Kuz and Trez to the Kings who sends us Buddy. I believe this is the only play, I can’t see it Working with a 4th team. Still I think it’s a long shot but you never know. Of course it would look suspicious as hell but unless info is leaked it would probably go through. The deal would also fall apart if a team stepped up with some bigger money for Dennis.
Thanks, Michael. I actually believe this is going to be a multiple team deal just like the AD acquisition were. Pelinka is copying the same framework but updating it with what happened to the Bucks, which is why the whole deal can’t be revealed until after August 2nd when players can be approached about sign-and-trades. At the deadline, the Bucks announced a trade that could not have happened without they violating the tampering rules.
The perfect tell to their being a deal is the Wizards saying they don’t plan to keep Kuzma or Harrell, basically telling their fans that these guys are going to be moving on for other players so don’t get attached into thinking these guys are going to Wizards or criticizing the trade when it is not done. Anyway, we really need volume 3-point shooters and Buddy is hopefully ours.