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Trade Thoughts....

This would have to be done in two steps, one prior to free agency and another after... requires everything to fall into place, but what do people think about the following:

Portland Trades ------- CJ + Whiteside (sign and trade)
Indiana Trades ------ Sabonis + Oladipo

Oladipo will be on an expiring contract, isn't looking to resign there and Indiana is looking to make a deal. They get CJ as the primary investment, which has many years left on the contract. Whiteside isn't a flush trade for Sabonis, but offsets some of the gain of CJ and gives them a strong center. Dollars work on this.

We actually save a little bit of money for this year. You can then:

Portland Trades ---- Trevor Ariza + Trade Exceptions (to the tune of $10M)
Spurs Trade - Aldridge to Portland (while generate another exception)

This works money wise, Spurs can accelerate rebuilding by having contract space to sign two marquee players, as opposed to chalking up next year as an L, while waiting for LMA contract to expire.

Blazers lineup would be:

Dame
Oladipo
Melo
Sabonis
Nurk

Simons
GT
Hood
Collins
Aldridge