Nuggets

Goal: Reduce cap figure in order to comfortably resign Watson and other free agents

• Attach Johnson to Braun in order to dump his contract

• Now able Resign Watson for 25-30Mil

• Get Dort as Braun upgrade (may need a pick or swap to thunder)

Warriors

Turn injured players into cap space and role players in order to pursue free agents / trade possibilities

• Salary dump Butler & Moody

• Receive Johnson and take swing on braun (long-term contract won't hurt warriors as much because they'll likely be bad anyways in a couple of years)

• Renegotiate Draymonds contract to a smaller per-year sum.

• Removed ~$37Mil -> theoretically pursue LeBron + 1-2 good role players

Thunder

• Remove Dort for trade exception and cap relieve

Nets

• Get a good player in Butler for a gap year (don't own their pick anyways) -> maybe rehab his value as previously done successfully with other players. Maybe resign him to a team friendly long-term deal and then trade him.

• Could also just let his contract expire for maximum 2027 cap space

• Get picks for taking on salary

Lakers

• Acquire a nice backup / potential starter

• Basically a free agency signing with the downside of him being injured