It should be noted Bayless contract is a pretty dumb mistake by colangelo.
Every other move was made to have max cap space this year after extending Covington into the cap this year.
It's inexplicable to me you go the extra year for Bayless and have to cough up assets to move him.
The big risk to max free agent money is embiid, if he were to get 1st team all NBA he gets a raise which would be problematic.
But that seems unlikely with the late injury and with Gobert seemingly the front runner for DPOY (which doesn't matter for his contract)
Every other move was made to have max cap space this year after extending Covington into the cap this year.
It's inexplicable to me you go the extra year for Bayless and have to cough up assets to move him.
The big risk to max free agent money is embiid, if he were to get 1st team all NBA he gets a raise which would be problematic.
But that seems unlikely with the late injury and with Gobert seemingly the front runner for DPOY (which doesn't matter for his contract)