Evans has led the league in rebounding per 48 min and is doing it again this year. Can you imagine Hayes, Evans the robounding tandem. We could proably be top 5 in offensive rebounding if that happened LOL
Salaries don't even come close. Evans is signed to the league minimum I believe (or close to it). Swift is making roughly 5x more at the MLE. Talent-wise...Evans makes Swift looks like Larry Bird on offense. We need SOME offense from our power forward.
Having Hayes and Evans on the same team would be kind of redundant. Swift is the only PF the rockets have who is a legit weakside shotblocker and Swift looked good on the same court when paired with Yao, so why get rid of him. Last six games Swift played in he averaged 13pts, 8.5rbs, on 49% fg in 30 minutes. And Swift drew a double team almost everytime he got the ball.