Check this out from Woj's column at ESPN:
Memphis might let him go for cheap because they don't have Bird rights and will find it hard to re-sign him. I would certainly trade *our* first round pick for Evans. Dude is 28, having the best offensive season of his career and statistically is looking like one of the top SGs in the league. His per-36 numbers are 23/6/5 on 41.6% shooting from 3 (50% from 2), he's defending reasonably well, and he looks healthy and is playing the game the right way. He has good size at 6'6 and is the kind of perimeter player we need. We have to shake things up and he would be a great acquisition IMO.
The problem is that we wouldn't acquire his Bird rights in a trade either and that would make it very tough to re-sign him unless we were somehow able to dump a bunch of salary. (A price we are paying for our trio of lousy contracts, TT-Shump-JR). Especially if we were going to keep IT. Maybe there is some salary cap wizardry we could do but I don't know what. That makes it really tough to justify trading the Nets pick for him
But he could make a major difference this season, and could be the difference between a fourth straight trip to the Finals and falling short.
"Memphis wants to find a first-round pick for Tyreke Evans, but that is likely to prove difficult. The Grizzlies have missed in several drafts on first-rounders, including the waiving of 2015 No. 17 pick Wade Baldwin, and need to replenish their stock of picks. As a rental on an expiring deal, it is hard to imagine Evans delivering that kind of a return."
Memphis might let him go for cheap because they don't have Bird rights and will find it hard to re-sign him. I would certainly trade *our* first round pick for Evans. Dude is 28, having the best offensive season of his career and statistically is looking like one of the top SGs in the league. His per-36 numbers are 23/6/5 on 41.6% shooting from 3 (50% from 2), he's defending reasonably well, and he looks healthy and is playing the game the right way. He has good size at 6'6 and is the kind of perimeter player we need. We have to shake things up and he would be a great acquisition IMO.
The problem is that we wouldn't acquire his Bird rights in a trade either and that would make it very tough to re-sign him unless we were somehow able to dump a bunch of salary. (A price we are paying for our trio of lousy contracts, TT-Shump-JR). Especially if we were going to keep IT. Maybe there is some salary cap wizardry we could do but I don't know what. That makes it really tough to justify trading the Nets pick for him
But he could make a major difference this season, and could be the difference between a fourth straight trip to the Finals and falling short.