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Pistons sell their cap space in proposed 4-team Steph Curry trade

By Aaron Kellerstrass

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Four-team trade needs the Detroit Pistons and their cap space 

In a recent article in Bleacher Report, writer Eric Pincus fantasized about a trade that would send Stephen Curry to the LA Lakers. 

In my wildest dreams I can’t imagine Golden State allowing Curry to play for another team, and there are financial restrictions on them and the Lakers that would make this challenging to say the least, but here are the details he laid out: 

Lakers get: 

  • Steph Curry (from Warriors) 
  • Day'Ron Sharpe (from Nets) 
  • Wendell Moore Jr. (from Detroit Pistons) 
  • $3.9 million trade exception (Jalen Hood-Schifino) 

Warriors get: 

  • Austin Reaves (via Lakers) 
  • Ben Simmons (via Brooklyn Nets) 
  • 2029 unprotected first-rounder (via Lakers) 
  • 2031 unprotected first-rounder (via Lakers) 
  • $2.4 million trade exception (Curry)  

Nets get: 

  • D'Angelo Russell (via Lakers) 
  • Rui Hachimura (via Lakers) 
  • Gabe Vincent (via Lakers) 
  • Jalen Hood-Schifino (via Lakers) 
  • $23.3 million trade exception (Simmons) 
  • $2.0 million trade exception (Dennis Schröder) 

Pistons get: 

  • Dennis Schröder (via Nets) 
  • Christian Wood (via Lakers) 
  • 2025 LA Clippers second-rounder (via Lakers) 
  • 2025 Miami Heat second-rounder (38-59, via Nets) 
  • $4 million (via Lakers) 

It’s hard for me to envision any scenario in which the Warriors trade their franchise icon and one of the best players of all time, especially when they only recently added another year to his deal. 

If they did want to trade Curry, I have to imagine they could get more given what we’ve seen Kevin Durant and James Harden and even Mikal Bridges fetch in recent years. Curry is still one of the top players in the league, and aside from that, he’s a walking cash register who fills arenas, moves merch and will make whoever has him a ton of money even as his career winds down. 

I’m going to ignore all the other teams for now and focus on the Pistons, as this trade represents the type of deal they might be able to make with their cap space and this one is particularly good. 

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