While the Heat have the salary ballast to make a Westbrook trade work—they have five players earning between $12.1 and $19.2 million next season—they'll likely need to involve a third team thanks to Jimmy Butler.
Since the Thunder won't harbor championship aspirations if they lose George and Westbrook in one offseason, they'll assuredly seek to dip below the tax threshold between now and the trade deadline. Shedding a few million of salary in a Westbrook trade would be their quickest way to do so.
The Heat are limited in terms of draft picks they're allowed to send out—they already owe their unprotected 2021 first-rounder and a lottery-protected 2023 first-rounder to the Thunder and have already traded nearly all of their second-roundersThat might prove difficult. According to, the Dallas Mavericks are the only team with more than $10 million in remaining cap space. Meanwhile, players who just signed with teams as free agents this offseason can't be traded until Dec.
Would the Mavericks take on Olynyk, who has a $13.2 million player option in 2020-21, to serve as a stretch-5 alongside the soon-to-be re-signed Kristaps Porzingis? Snagging a 2022 first-round pick swap from Miami—in what's widely presumed to be the year that the NBAIf not Dallas, would Cleveland dangle JR Smith's contract as potential cap relief for OKC? According toof Cleveland.com, Smith agreed to push back the guarantee date on his $15.
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