Would You Trade Tari Eason, 1st rd pick & Bench Warmers for Coby White?

A one-year rental of Coby White isn't worth very much IMO. He will be unrestricted next summer. Hard pass on your proposal.

Why wouldn't the Rockets worry about re-signing him?

I don't watch Coby White play much, but he strikes me as a better version of Jalen. I'm fine with adding a shooter, but not a high-volume guy looking to increase his value so he can max out next summer.

 

Yeah, I was going to say... is he agreeing to an extension we can afford in this scenario? Something like Jabari money? If so, I guess I could see it. If he wants Desmond Bane money, which I suspect he might depending on how his season goes, I'm gonna pass on this one.

 

Desmond Bane money is exactly what he'll be looking for. If he has a blowout year, probably more.

 

I certainly think the Rockets should give serious consideration to moving Tari in a deal for the right target, due to the downside risk of that leg.
That said, I'm not sure if White is the guy.
Contract, Size, the presence of Reed, etc...
It likely needs to be for a star.

 

What do you mean you were going "back and forth" with Chatgpt? Like you sit there just having conversations? Is that what people do? Interesting.

Anyway, I'd rather have Tari than White tbh, I think he fits a need better and is good insurance if either Bari or Amen goes down with injury. He's a good plug and play defender because he's always going to cause at least something to happen.

 

No no.no.

Have a summer beverage and get reinforcements for The ‘stros.

 

Everyone around the league thinks Houston will go hard for Giannis next summer when there team(Bucks) flops out in 1st round making Giannis want to go play for either spurs or rockets.

Rockets may let go of Sengun only if his numbers regress, but I highly doubt that. If they do Sengun for Giannis trade It probably take pieces like Tari, Sheppard to get included in deal.

 

it's always a good bet to trade for someone who sounds like kobe

 

That's interesting, I genuinely didn't know that was a thing. I guess it saves time, but is the information totally accurate? I'm just going based on other AI generated things and how sketchy they are, I'm not sure I'd be relying on anything without verifying.

 

This trade likely won’t work. Gotta field a 14-man roster below the first apron hard cap.

 

Sounds like a trade from ClutchFans Fat GPT.........

 

Why can't Chicago pay their best young player in today's market?

 

Probably not. And im not a big Tari guy. We just have too many dudes that need shots on the team right now.

 

Makes no sense. We need a backup 3/4. Rather Trade Sheppard’s 10 mil.

 

This is difficult for me because I really like Coby White and feel he would fit great next to Sengün and KD and be like a Jamal Murray. At the same time I’m really high on Tari and don’t want to trade him either. Just incase the KD experiment doesn’t work out you at least now we have Tari to step in at SF instead of looking to address it in the draft or free agency. Also I don’t want to give up picks unless we’re receiving a superstar or borderline superstar level player in return

 

Once again, ChatGPT is wrong on so many different levels in its proposed trade, it's almost impressive:

1. Because the Rockets both took in Clint Capela in a Sign and Trade, as well as used the non-taxpayer MLE to sign DFS, they cannot exceed the first apron for the remainder of the league year. Even Chat GPT is showing that the Rockets would have a post-trade payroll of $197.285M, exceeding the first apron level by $1.3M; this is not allowed.

2. Players who have signed a free agent contract in the summer are ineligible to be traded until December 15th. This covers Holiday, Tate, and Matthews.

3. Prior to December 15th, you are not allowed to aggregate more than one minimum salary together in a trade where you are taking back more players than you send out, unless you are sending out exclusively two minimum salaries.

4. Both Holiday and Tate have no-trade clauses due to signing 1-year deals that would give them bird rights after their expiration. Hard to think that they would accept such a move to a rebuilding squad, considering the re-signed on discounts to be part of this team.

5. The Rockets must roster 14 players on full-time NBA contracts throughout the year. They can drop below that limit for no more than 2 weeks continuously, and 28 days in total. In the proposed ChatGPT trade, you're trading out 4 for 1, meaning the Rockets would only have 10 players signed, and again, under point #1, they would be exceeding the hard cap. To be compliant, the absolute minimum they would have to do is to sign 4 more rookie minimum contracts at $1,272,870 apiece, totaling roughly $5.09M more.

6. Fortunately, the CBA does not limit salary matching for under the first apron teams to 125% unless the outgoing salary is greater than $29M. For outgoing salary up to $7.5M, you are allowed 200% matching, meaning they would only need to have outgoing salary of $6,444,444. If you did so, you'd far exceed the first luxury tax apron, meaning the move would not be legal.

7. For purposes of White's salary, he has annual unlikely-to-be-earned incentives of $1,333,333. I can't find a source on what they are, but regardless, they are counted against the luxury tax apron hard-cap for the entirety of the season. So add another $1.3M that the Rockets would be out of cap compliance.

8. The Rockets do not have a first rounder in 2026, it has been traded to Oklahoma City. The only protection on this pick is if it is in the top-4.

 

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