I’m seeing a lot of talk about the Houston way or the Detroit way to rebuild. I was on the Houston style bandwagon the last two summers and still believe investing in solid vets, not Nerlens Noel and the corpse of Joe Harris is necessary for a young team.
Pretend for a minute, we traded for Monte Morris and still had a little over $20 million to spend, wouldn’t you have rather gone shopping for some of these guys instead of trading for Joe Harris??? What would this team look like with say, Grant Williams and Kelly Oubre instead of Harris? Or pick any combo.
Dillon Brooks $21M/year/4 years
Grant Williams $12.4M/Year/4 years
Taureen Prince $4.5M/1 year deal
Kelly Oubre $2.9M/1 year deal
Christian Wood $5.7M/2-year deal (player opt out year 2)
Torey Craig $5.2M/2 year deal (Player opt out year 2)
Austin Reaves (Was RFA) Avg $14M/year for 3 years
Yuta Watanabe $2.5 M/Year
Gabe Vincent $11M/year/3 years
I heard Troy Weaver has been trying to trade for Joe Harris for a few years. I assume the hope was that he could be a 15-20 min rotation player at least.