Every scout I hear from says Sharpe is the real deal - an Anthony Edwards type with a jumper. I think teams bitching about not taking him because he refuses to workout is all smokescreen. If he's there for Portland, you absolutely draft and keep him. Hart can play some 3.
Fischer brought up the idea of Portland trading down to 12 while picking up a future first or other assets from OKC. This would be with the idea of 12 being moved for a player like OG/Collins/Grant. He said he hasn't heard that specifically but it's his own speculation after other convos.
Moving down has been mentioned many times with a few teams 7 for Char's 13 and 15 and maybe a bit more 7 for San Anton's 9 and 20 or 25 7 for OKC's 12 and another pick or Dort or someone else?
moving down is putting lipstick on a pig. it's trying to justify using 7 on Grant by disguising it as 12 or 13 or 15
KOC: "League sources say the Hawks are looking to add a lottery pick either by outright trading John Collins or also including this selection (#16). One of the teams they’ve had talks with is Portland. " https://nbadraft.theringer.com/mock-draft
Collins + 16 for 7th seems to be a fair trade. But we would have to trade Bledsoe and I'm not sure the Hawks would want to eat Bledsoe's guaranteed salary.
I'd throw in Keon as incentive. Or our 2nd. I like the idea of drafting a potential star better than Collins at 7, but if he comes with 16, that's a value play that we would have to weigh strongly. And besides, the likelihood of #7 turning into a star are not great. This would be the safe play... in a lot of senses, but I'd be OK with this.
Portland could take back Gallo (5M guaranteed) into their medium TPE. That would save the Hawks some money. For Blazers, it adds 1.1M in salary which would be more than offset by the rookie scale difference between 7 and 16
get john collins if you can, as i dont think any drafted player will be able to contribute from the get go, which would be needed dame-ant-little-collins-nurk with hart being 6th man and allong with coach billups, we could enjoy it
OKC has #2/12/30/34 this year. ....as many as 6 in 2023 (up to 4 1sts and 2 2nds) There is no way they can Draft all of these players along with all the young players they already have on their roster.
He’s a bit of a project but not keeping the 7/Duren is going to be a mistake. Appeasing Dame is putting a band-aid on a bullet wound. We need a rebuild and Dame has nobody to blame other than Neil and Bert.
