Zombie What is the Best Offer We Could Get for C.J. McCollum?

And it still sucks.

 

I would do CJ for the 10th pick and Markelle Fultz. Fultz is a wild card but he's a #1 pick two years ago, very talented just not sure what the deal is with his shoulder, and you get the 10th pick? No brainer.

 

who would you target at 10th?

 

Middleton had a down year both shooting and defensively. The whole Bucks team was disappointing though. It's the only reason there is a slight chance he'd be available for the TPE (probably not).

 

He was #1 pick ONE year ago.

 

Knox, Miles Bridges, Mikal Bridges - bigger guys who can score and shoot it, SF/SG, OR I would love Wendell Carter from Duke if he falls.

 

My bad.

 

I commented on a non-rumor that had us getting Fultz + #10 + Saric, saying that it would be a no-brainer. Considering the cap
(they'd have to toss in more players or we'd get a LOT of cap space), it's even better.

 

His numbers look solid. I've never really been sold on all the Middleton talk tho...

 

How does this make Portland better?

What is this fascination with draft picks? Would I love the 10th pick? Yes. Would I sacrifice one of the top scorers in the league for it? Nope. And I’m not even against trading CJ, but only, and I mean only, if it made us better. So someone like Saric would have to be involved, on top of the 10th pick. Trading CJ for two maybes would be so fucking stupid, no matter what you think of CJ. The only one happy with that would be Allen’s accountant.

 

CJ to Philly just makes too much sense... they sorely need a player that can create his own shot... plus he played college ball in the area... and they can make the deal without giving up one of their top 2 players and still give us a ton of assets to make us better as a team... seems like a no brained for both sides

 

I think we would have to get Saric in any Philly deal

 

This is not bad. Props. Then again, I'm a big Middleton fan. I'm sure the board would love to trade Henson for Meyers. Even though Henson isn't that great, he may be a better fit. He's definitely quicker. Not sure what to think about Delladova. I've seen him be good. I've seen him be bad. I think he plays defense, he isn't small, he isn't old, and we could use another PG, so there's that. It even saves the team some lux tax money.

 

Never doubt The Sultan of Swish3

 

Well the 'fascination' with top 10 picks is many of them turn out to be pretty good, especially in what is considered a very good draft class. It gives you an opportunity to balance out your roster as you get to select guys who fill a need. This is hypothetical, coming from a podcast with Zach Lowe. And you get Fultz, last year's #1 pick. But you go ahead and ride the CJ train and hope for better results.

 

He had an excellent playoff series against a very tough Boston team though and with his age, I doubt they would just be looking for a salary dump and would only consider a "blow me away" type offer for him. I would love to add him to the Blazers though.

 

K

 

I think the value of a philly deal, especially with saric included, is solid. But it really feels like it'd need to be 3 team deal to make sense direction wise. Can we get a young vet for 10? Is there someone else we can flip fultz for?