Warriors get their perfect center entering his prime, and luxury tax relief. They agree with Poeltl on a contract extension.

Green carries over his championship pedigree to the Nets, gives them a much needed spark and immediately becomes their defensive anchor. He also improves the Nets’ flow in offense with his passing skills and off-ball positioning. Green gets a fresh start in a new team after the Poole incident.

Simmons has to prove he can again become the player he used to be and improve his versatility on offense. In San Antonio, Simmons rejoins with Brett Brown, he can recover in a currently low pressure environment where purposeful experiments and mistakes are embraced to foster collective and individual improvement, and develop his game in an almost European/FIBA passing-first-team-basketball-style that should suit him. He gets a chance to play at the center position for a young Spurs team that plays competitively and at a fast pace, with key players being developed to play and defend multiple positions. He enables intruiging lineup experiments during this developmental period. As he replaces Poeltl, FT% is going to be less of a concern ;-)

Perhaps counterintuitively, this trade poses the most risk for the Spurs, as they have to absorb Simmons’ multiyear max contract. That’s why the Spurs also receive draft compensation. At least this season, Simmons doesn’t make the Spurs a better team - which is acceptable (and desirable) in light of the Wembanyama sweepstakes. For the Spurs, Simmons becomes yet another developmental/rebuilding project, a high risk - high reward prospect.

Over the next 3-4 years, Poeltl could turn as the most valuable player for his team in this trade (likely on the most team friendly contract, too). A great teammate, a gritty, low maintenance, unselfish, "over-himself" high IQ player, good roller and ball mover who has continuously improved his game season by season. Though often underappreciated or overlooked, he is now a top 10 center in the NBA who does all the little, valuable things on the court.

P.S. I'd like to see Poeltl remain a Spur for many years. Hope the Spurs only trade him if he wishes to compete for a championship in the near future and finds an attractive opportunity.