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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 5102418, member: 1674"] The tricky part with this is Lavine alone is so expensive. Add Caruso's salary in and teams suddenly have to put together a trade package over $50 million per year to match the salaries; not an easy task. I thought the Kings would make sense for Lavine (I want to say they once signed him to an offer sheet) and they have some easy salary pieces to match, but re-signing Monk may take them off the list. Beyond them and with Philly publicly saying they have zero interest, there aren't really any obvious suitors. Maybe Cleveland becomes a possibility once they move one of Garland/Mitchell as they seem likely to do. Maybe Atlanta becomes an option if they opt against blowing it up; they're another one that has some easy salary pieces to match. Orlando feels ripe for some sort of consolidation type of move and everyone knows they want some shooting; they have some easy salary pieces to match if they choose to do so. I'd be surprised if New Orleans goes this route, but if they think the Ingram/Zion duo is truly dead and prefer the spacing of Lavine, they could do a straight up swap. Lastly, I continue to think Detroit needs to either consider trading Cade or making a real effort to upgrade the roster around him this offseason; it just feels like a terrible idea to lock Cade into a max contract before you've even given him a chance to prove if he's the type you can win because of. Everyone keeps floating Detroit as being in the business of taking on bad contracts for draft picks again this offseason (which, Lavine arguably could be here lol), but I really think it would be stupid for them to just tank yet again while having Cade rotting away there. All that is to say, I think Chicago will find a taker for Lavine if they want to find one but it also may make sense to try to rehab his value this season (while presumably letting DeRozan walk so the team can be primarily built around White and Lavine for the year). [/QUOTE]

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