Caris LeVert

Being a closer, he brings that on.

Um, and Caris LeVert and Towns also, that's on him too.

If you wanna be in this conversation as best on the team minimum, he gotta show out.

But there are a couple dudes, people are saying they got chemistry, Brunson and Cat, and I, I've seen some, but it's more so running the hub and the way Mike Breen was releasing the, the offense, the playbook, uh, last, uh, last preseason game.

So here's the intel from Jake Fisher as other teams are in this boat too, and everyone just trying, a lot of these teams, not all of them, but many of them either trying to help other teams for a cost or solve their own roster crunch.

So specifically, the Bucks have talked about deals involving Caris LeVert, Kevin Porter Jr., and Jericho Sims, which Bucks breakdown, and I thought maybe a team would want Jericho Sims.

It turns out a team does.

The LeVert thing, I mean, could that be them taking some salary back and then eating that and waiving a player? Could it be them dumping salary? I would hope they wouldn't pay specifically just to dump LeVert, um, 'cause they could just cut him a- and not give up an asset, and it doesn't really change their cap outlook at all.

... of, uh, staying under it when the time really matters the most.

Uh, Bucks, I think they'll cut Pete Nance, put him on a two-way, and then probably cut Caris LeVert.

I know that there's the argument that his salary's gonna be good for trades, but they have Kuzma for that, too.

They'll probably end up doing some trades.

They got that big trade exception.

Um, if LeVert-

Caris LeVert would probably be the most prominent roster cut-down guy, like, maybe in NBA history, right? Like, Caris LeVert was a rotation guy on a playoff team last year.

It, yeah, and then they traded two seconds to move off him, and didn't even save all that much money in the process.

Look at guys like potentially Pete Nance, Stretch 4 Pete Nance.

Look at guys like potentially Kevin Porter Jr. maybe at the guard spot, right? Maybe even Caris LeVert to a lesser degree if he's waived, right? There's a couple of different guys around the league that could be interesting as the, as a possible, you know, acquisition By the Orlando Magic to fill out that last roster spot if they so choose to.

Of course, this team has been relatively hesitant to fill that so far, but I think they're doing the right thing by waiting until cut season to see what kind of guys could fall off the bone.

And I think there's a handful of different teams, like I mentioned with Memphis, LA, and the Bucs specifically, who have to get rid of some guys that could provide an opportunity for the Orlando Magic to maybe scoop up a really good player.

I mentioned the Kevin Porter Jr. thing in passing 'cause I think that Kevin Porter Jr., his $5.4 million on the Bucs' books, they got a million guards in there.

He could be a guy that although they may hate the idea of waiving, may just be an easy guy to get rid of because they have such a log jam at the guard position, and he has such a low cap hole compared to waiving Caris LeVert and that being $14 million in dead money, or waiving Kyle Kuzma and that being $20 million in dead money, right? They're highly unlikely to move off of Tyler Herro within the next three days.

Highly unlikely to move off of Ryan Rollins, especially 'cause he's at only $4 million right now.

Highly unlikely to move off Kaspar Zarkas-Jones because he was somebody that was supposed to be kind of the feather in the cap of the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade.

... that this version of the team is worse than it was last year.

It, it was the- That was the best version of the Knicks, but I think across a regular season sample size, the best Caris LeVert talents they've gotten was two years ago.

That is true.

When he was, he was 24-

I think even if OG Anunoby, Mikal Bridges, Hart, Miles McBride, obviously like Jordan Clarkson's coming back, Landry Shamet, um, I...

Even if those guys take a step back, I think if you have two guys who are legitimate 25-point per game scorers, and one of them's a 25-point per game scorer, and we talked about Mitchell Robinson's rebounding.

Caris LeVert, Caris LeVert's one of the best rebounders in basketball.

He is.