Time to wrap up the week here got some news to catch up on and then of course we have to do the central division

Yay

Central division which somehow amazingly actually isn't the most depressing division anymore

It's actually now belonging to the southeast preview coming next week. All right

Let's get started here with the box. They've got about 5 million to work with below the tax line

They do have a 1.9 million dollar trade exception from the Rashad Vaughan for Tyler Zeller trade last year and

If you're the box just how are you approaching this trade deadline? What are your goals at this point in time?

Their biggest goal should be just maximizing the next two seasons remember that is

Yannis is under contract through the

2021 season but

2020 is when he is presumably going to make his decision on a designated veteran extension

So that's why you want to kind of focus on that narrower time frame

The reason the bucks are less interesting

I think that a lot of other really good teams is that it looks like they already made their big moves

I mean they by trading a future protected first for

George Hill though

I would argue the larger part of that trade was to dump the last year for Delvedova and

John Henson not only are they out to first round picks

But they don't have a ton of mechanisms to get better

They can use that Rashad Vaughan exception if they want to they also have 15 guys on roster and other than Jason Smith

I think they like the other 14

Yeah, that's a great point DJ Wilson has been playing better now. We thought he might actually be a

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