Good Work keep going!

Tom Gores, sell the team. You just hired Stan VanGundy in a rented Grant Hill costume. You NEED shooters so you just drafted a non-shooter. Ain't nobody GAF about no MFin" Fed Vinson. Do the right thing. Sell the team.

How did you go about getting such an understanding of this?

Good quick analysis. I do think, as you've talked about on Twitter, that they are going to make additional moves to facilitate resigning OG while staying off the hard cap. Kind of the predictable moves such as dumping Randle, an expensive redundancy in an Mikal+OG front court. Thibs does appear to like Robinson more than Hartenstein as the starter when both are healthy. Robinson also have what is likely end up a much more favorable contract. The health concerns are very real, though: 90 Robinson games vs 157 Hartenstein games over the last two years. If you're trying to chase down the Celtics, health especially come playoff time and how Thibs works his players, is pretty important. So what they do at Center with those two is pretty interesting.

Thanks for the excellent breakdown. What nobody is talking about is the fact that Brunson was expected to sign a big extension this off season. I don't see how that's possible now with all the moves we made and if we resign all of our players. People are saying it's less likely we resign Ihart now, but I think the Knicks are still trying to get it done. If we can get his 1st year pricetag down to 35 million or less, that leaves 18 million for Hartenstein, and we'll have like 12 million left over to fill out the rest of the roster and pay our draft pics.

Honestly I don’t think that Evan is worth a max contract but he’s so young he will continue to progress and become a max player

He wants to WIN Brooklyn is tanking after trading mikal bridges if the Cavs can trade dg and some other assets for cam Johnson that would help a lot on the wing especially with cam being 6’8”

The nets are clearly tanking the Cavs could trade dg another player and a couple 2’s they could get cam Johnson depending if it costs to get the deal done. If Donovan doesn’t resign in the next couple days he’s absolutely going to get traded and all of the “good teams” besides Philly really don’t have the cap space to sign Donovan so he’s not gonna go to a better situation. And

The nets are clearly tanking the Cavs could trade dg another player and a couple 2’s they could get cam Johnson depending if it costs to get the deal done

10:48 - We can either sign Claxton and trade him by the deadline or convince him to allow us to sign-and-trade him to his desired team. I can't see us paying Cam Thomas to stay on this team... 😔

I'm a HUGE Nets' fan... and I'm sick! We did the right thing in trashing the retool and embracing the rebuild. I'm extremely concerned we just handed the knix a championship. And i HATE the knicks! 😡

Great video!

This is already one of my favorite KZfaq channels keep up the good work Yossi. Question, have you considered live-streaming? it would be cool for fans to bounce trade ideas or signings off of you and get feedback in real time.

The nets got back their 25 swap and 26 pick fyi

I relaly like Bridges but I think what you see is what you're going to get from here on in. A really good piece, but, only a near All Star. I think he has hit his celing with some ball handling and court vision improvements over the years. So yeah - they paid a bunch for him. But the one ability he does have is availability which these days is a valuable commodity. Look at Randle and OG.

Great coments. Love you channel Yossi.

Those 4 unprotected are basically high second round picks… Jesus Christ you suck. It’s not about the amount it’s the QUALITY of picks!! The Knicks are a 55-60 win team for the foreseeable future

The Knicks have ALL their 1st this year to grab a center… I just solved your center dilemma 🙄 so called cap expert

Unless the Knicks can leverage their remaining picks and Randle to bring in a lot of size I just don't think they can afford to lose him, OG is fragile normally and playing him at the 4 seems kinda scary for his health and Mitch can barely stay on the court as well, unless Randle + picks is bringing in multiple bigs they can trust in the playoffs, I just dont see it

The Knicks had the assets to trade for him… why were they among your least expected destinations for Bridges?

Can you possibly explain why the Knicks acquiring more money in the trade makes them hard capped at the 1st Apron? There’s rarely ever a trade where the salaries are 100% exactly matching to the dollar, so wouldn’t this result in too many teams getting hard capped? There must be something that isn’t being mentioned, I would assume?

How can the Lakers bring in Grant?

Calling it, Knicks are Pretenders. Now, first of all, it's a great all in move if they keep the core intact. At minimum, they should be a top 3 seed. Anything below is a failure. But my reasoning why I don't trust the Knicks and anyone should be very skeptical is primarily injuries, and that plays into rebounding. Thibs has a curse that he ruins players' careers because he works them to the bone, causing multiple injuries throughout their career. So if, knock on wood, Mitchell, Randles goes down they're their best rebounders because they have size. The Knicks are small, scrappy, but small. Josh Hart is a great rebounder, but he's undersized, and nobody else besides Hart can effectively rebound.

I'll help everybody out here... The Pistons suck,, they have sucked,, and they will continue to suck... The end

Great work bruh. But fire your barber homie. He messed up your line. Soooo crooked! Go to a black barber or something. They’ll hook you up.

Offer OG the max....muck NY

You've built a team that will likely be the worst in the league again, has parlayed most of its flexibility into unimpressive future assets, and will continue to depend almost exclusively upon internal development. The starting lineup won't be able to play defense, there isn't a single power forward on the entire roster, it's absolutely clogged in the backcourt (to the tune of six guards), they'll have two centers who both struggle defensively, they'll have traded away Grimes (for no good reason, given that THJ won't be in the team's long-term plans whereas Grimes very well could be) for a considerably worse defender in THJ who's much older, they'll have little cap space next offseason given that Cade's extension will eat up pretty much all of it, and, all told, the reward for handcuffing themselves to this roster for several years will be pick #11 in a weak draft and a 2025 Dallas 1st that could easily be within a few picks of the 2nd round. I don't see it. This looks like the Pistons just being used as a dumping ground in a way that benefits them not at all unless one of those picks blows its projection out of the water.

Great Breakdown! I love it! CJ and Lonzo make a lot of sense with the Trajan relationship. Oh yeah, and Jonas.

For me any KZfaqr who says Isiah Stewart is a Center immediately loses all credibility. Best possible way to tell everyone that you don't know what you're talking about.

More of the same The pistons are garbage men for unwanted contracts deandre Jordan , Joe Harris , Trevor ariza. Freaking why do you think Dwayne Desmond is still on their payroll. The only good one was kemba walker that got us duren. The problem is all we ever get is 2nd rd picks for these kind of deals.

No to cj no more guards rather have stew defenses

Get Sam Cassell resign fronttechio and grimes get og anunoby (4 years 140)jonas v and naji Marshall

Dude. This is horrible. You call yourself an expert?

What do you think about Miles Bridges, Duncan Robinson and Emoni Bates?

They should go for a rebuild. It’s just insanity to make the same thing expecting a different result. They could get a lot of assets for Booker and KD. Many other franchises are lightyears ahead of them and they should capitalize on their assets when they still are highly valued.

What about Trading Ivey ,Stewart, Grimes for Micheal Porter Jr ?

I’m stupid so just to be clear. He is saying we could trade for Grant & still be able to offer DJJ the full mid-level exception right?

This is amazing. I appreciate you using the LeBron James example. I’ve been seeing rumors of the Warriors being interested in Paul George. The Klay stuff gets interesting considering how GP2 & Looney are guaranteed for next season. Idk how likely it is that they re-sign Klay+new all star talent this offseason.

Great content 👍👍

As a pelicans fan im okay moving on from CJ but I wouldnt trade the 21st pick to do so... Stewart is basically Larry Nance nothing special... Pels could trade 21 for Capela and have a better player then Stewart.

Great to find you. New subscriber.

Excellent work with this presentation. The only thing I say is if the Pistons acquire ball, they may want to see if he can play.

Great video and excellent breakdown of the team's cap-space and options. I think this would be a step in the right direction, and every trade you mentioned (while not my favorite) makes a lot of sense from a logistics standpoint. Hard to find basketball content like this nowadays!

The Pistons are also my favorite team. Troy Weaver did leave the team in a better place with the cap space. Drafting Hayes over Halliburton was a bad move; but I heard that Weaver did not have a lot autonomy to pick whom he wanted who supposedly was Halliburton. Great content; there are not too many channels like yours on You Tube.

I think the CJ McCollum trade is good but adding Tim Hardway Jr, and Lonzo is duplication. It doesn't make good basketball since. Hardaway is primarily a shooting guard whose numbers are down across the board and doesn't play good defense anymore. I don't believe Detroit would do both and trade away Grimes. Lonzo Ball is coming off a horrid injury that saw him miss 2 years. That's a hard no. That's an objectively bad trade for a team that needs 3 and D wings and trades one away for a older broken down version and signing another. This is the worst offseason plan I've heard. Like the picks but the plan doesn't even help solve their major issue which is development. They need vets who can contribute. Detroit is not trying to tank. They are trying to build around the young core. How does adding 3 guards to a team with 3 guards already help. I get it you don't know enough Pistons and what their plans are so I don't fault you for using them as a dumping ground for bad contracts for picks but that isn't their goal. D - on these moves and that's only because of the picks.

I don't know how often you profile the Pistons, my favorite team, but you have GREAT content bro! I appreciate your research. You are very thorough. Troy Weaver didn't do ANY of this during his tenure. Asset management was his undoing, but drafting Killian Hayes over Tyrese Haliburton didn't help. One transaction you may have missed is Cade's extension. They will probably do that this off season.

Food for thought

Lonzo and THJ are also on expiring contracts which will make them interesting contracts as it will open up more cap space next season or if they want to trade away THJ to for some more assets.

nico absolutely will draft bronny. its not like bronny will get any serious minutes but lebron would definitely join dallas. don't forget lukas favorite player growing up was lebron and kyrie went to 3 straight finals w lebron and won a chip. the draft is trash so its not like dallas would be bypassing gen talent to make this happen. will a team draft bronny before dallas is the question. but if bronny is still available there is no way nico doesn't make this move. the x factor would be does kai and luka take a pay cut. yes. kai already proved that.

Coming off Timmy's 17m makes sense. Some of these people commenting are emotional fanatics that have no place discussing payroll whatsoever.