Phil hinted that he wanted Frank Kaminksy who went #9 to the Hornets but I think he really wanted Lyles (especially at #12 money). If Phil could get Favors on a good deal going forward and Burke on his team-friendly rookie deal and ditch Calderon in the process, he might take it. He'd probably want the Jazz's 2016 1st round pick too even though the Jazz would be taking back two years of Calderon (which is a cheaper for them than including a 1st rounder), not sure if that's enough of a sweetener. The Jazz are a draft-built team, they can ill afford to give away a lottery pick. Perhaps a 2017 1st rounder could be added but the Knicks might balk at that.
Exum, Burks, Hayward, Porzingis, Gobert is your Jazz starting five with Booker, Calderon and Hood (and Olivier Hanlan?) off the bench. Too thin to give up 2016's 1st rounder pick (that's a lottery pick) but perhaps promising enough to include 2017's 1st round pick. (And, man, if the Jazz could lure Paul Millsap back, their only hope of a free agent badass coming to the SLC, then Porzingis could give them for-real punch off the bench)
I think this is a pretty good deal for both teams: Knicks get an established downlow presence on a very good deal (Favors), a top ten talent rookie (Lyles), a cheap low risk/high reward audition at PG (Burke) and they get rid of their least desirable contract for one skinny Euro kid that everyone in New York already hates; the Jazz get perhaps the intriguing rookie talent of this draft, a veteran PG (over priced but the Jazz can afford it) and still have plenty of room to make more moves.
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