David Levine
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ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen Beal will be averaging over $50 million per year for the next four years, all guaranteed and with his no trade clause still intact. Durant, over $50 million per for the next three years. And Booker is a FA after the season. Spotrac estimates his new contract will average.... $58 million per! Oh, Ayton has $102 million due over the next three years. It's plausible Phoenix will try to dump salary and start a rebuild in 3-4 years. Not sure what they'll have though: For Durant: Brooklyn receives forwards Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson, multiple first-round picks (2023, 2025, 2027 and 2029) and a first-round pick swap in 2028 from Phoenix, as well as second-round picks from Milwaukee, in the exchange. For Beal: Washington and Phoenix have finalized the Bradley Beal trade, landing the Wizards six second-round draft picks and four first-round pick swaps, sources tell ESPN. Suns are sending seconds in 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2030. Pick swaps in 2024, 2026, 2028 (Nets involved), and 2030. Phoenix does not have control of a single draft pick until 2031. So 'window dressing' regarding the pick swaps is a speculative conclusion at best. The more I discover, the more I like two or maybe even three of those pick swaps. Meanwhile Washington has its own challenges but will at least be drafting high for a few years with cap for FAs. Are the 4 pick swaps in the next consecutive 4 years or are they staggered? If staggered I agree some of them on the tail end could be good picks. I was assumimg they were the next consecutive 4 years. They're every even year through 2030. They couldn't be consecutive because they traded away all their odd year picks for Durant.
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