Just sit him until the trade deadline. He’ll become more valuable. It will give us time to hopefully pick up someone at the deadline once we see what deficiencies we have with the current roster construct.
Why in the world would you sit him?
SMH at some of the armchair GMing happening on this site recently. He becomes much more tradable as the season goes on, but there is no reason at all to sit him like we did role playing malcontent Jae Crowder. Beal, even with his injury history, is 5x the player Jae was. Sitting him isn't an option, nor should it be.
He is not going to gain value as the season goes on, maaaaaaaaybe next Summer we could move him as an expiring but that requires us to take back a bunch of money and doesn't really help our cap situation.
As for sitting him or playing him... he was awful last year, his impact was negative, especially in the 2nd half of the year, we were much better when he was out. He doesn't fit at all with the players we currently have and if he gets hurt (or I should say WHEN he gets hurt) we're still on the hook and he becomes even more immovable.
Also, when we are inevitably unable to trade him anywhere by the deadline, his motivation for accepting a buyout will be gone because at that point in the year no one else will have any money to throw at him, he'd be on a minimum contract. So, w
We'd be stuck over the apron, paying a record amount of money for a team that probably doesn't have hope of the playoffs.
If we can't dump Allen and O'Neale to get under the apron (and that doesn't appear to be happening) then buying out and stretching Beal is the only solution.