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These NBA writers are really scraping the bottom at this point. John Hollinger tweeted out (pasted in below) that the Raptors structured their Alex Len and Baynes contracts into the MLE so that they could trade a specific group of players for the exact amount to match Giannis' salary to the dollar. It's not a bad move to do that by the Raptors as it's clearly a signal they wanted to get to Giannis without tampering (hence probably leaking some esoteric detail like that to Hollinger), but the whole thing is ridiculous.

Fun fact: The ~600k cap # difference between this and his vet min allows him to be a salary match in a trade for a $27.528M player with Powell, OG, McCaw, and one of Thomas/Davis. Otherwise he'd make too little. If there were some hypothetical player who makes $27.528M, that is

If the Bucks, for some reason, decided to trade Giannis it sure as hell won't be for Len, Baynes, Norman Powell, OG Anunoby, and Terrence Davis. There is no way Giannis goes to the Raptors in a trade (even with the small chance that it happens) without Siakam coming to Milwaukee.

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