Pacers deal

Aloha,

Here is a trade with the Pacers using Russ if they really wanted to dump Buddy and a Kyrie trade can’t happen. The Lakers send them Russ, an unprotected 1st and a 2nd. Pacers send Buddy plus 3 of the contracts used for filler in the Brogdon trade. They would probably want to keep Theis in case of a Turner trade. You can have 20 guys under contract during the summer, so the Lakers could take on those 3 guys and Buddy. That would total a little over 30 mil going out to the Lakers. But Buddy has another year at 20 mil so in essence the Pacers save about 3 mil. I could see the Pacer doing that for a distant pick. The Lakers could cut all 3 since 2 are expiring and one has a team option next year. That would also give the Lakers a decent TPE. And reduce salary by about 8 mil.