What are your ideas for a possible trade? This is mine; Blazers- DeMarcus Cousins Kings - Ty Lawson, Meyers Leonard, Allen Crabbe, 2019 Blazers unprotected pick Nuggets - CJ McCollum
Sure why not? While we're gutting our starters entirely, let's also gut our bench entirely. Lillard will be the only returning player at this rate.
In a heartbeat, I'd sell high on CJ and Meyers to get Cousins. There value has never been higher and I'd only do it if LA is returning. Dame, LA, Cousins..instant contender,
Cousins/Plumlee Aldridge/Vonley Aminu /Carroll/Crabbe Carroll/Henderson/Connaughton Dame/Frazier Add a combo PG to that group and a veteran backup C/PF and that is tough squad. I like Meyers and CJ but stars win and Boogie is an unstoppable star.
Exactly. You put Boogie, LA and Dame on the court together and you'll be surprised the MLE and Vet minimum players that all of a sudden are willing to come here.
Nuggets get hosed on that one. How bout this: Blazers: DeMarcus Cousins Kings: Wilson Chandler, Meyers Leonard, Ty Lawson, Nuggets: 2018 Blazers unprotected pick, 2022 POR 1st round pick, 2017 SAC 1st round pick (top 10 protected), Noah Vonleh, Nik Stauskas, Carl Landry, Jason Thompson Blazers can trade away Vonleh because they don't combine him with another player. They get Cousins. Sacremento sheds $7M in cap space while receiving a good PG, a starting wing, and a young PF that will make for a superathletic front court and fit well with Lawson and WCS. Denver gets 2 young lottery talents in Stauskas and Vonleh, and 3 first round picks for their rebuild. Trade Henderson for a pick, and that leaves you with around $26M in cap. Sign Carroll for $12M, Gerald Green for $3M, then go over the cap to resign Wes. Sign CJ Watson for the cap room exception. Lillard / Watson SG Matthews / McCollum SF Carroll / Green PF Aldridge / C Cousins / Plumlee Spacing and defense around LA and DMC. Cousins and Carroll could play 4 when LA is out
Blazers can't package Vonleh with any other players. Blazers can't trade a first round pick until 2019. Maybe your right Denver wants more for Lawson than CJ and cap space; but Kings aren't going to be giving up picks or a prospect like Stauskas when they already give up the clearly best player in the deal.
So give them the rights to Diez and Pat C with Leonard, Kaman and CJ ..whatever it takes. Forget Denver, make George Karl a deal he likes and Vlade will follow suit
Denver is critical to the deal because they have the quality veteran starter the Kings would want and would be willing to take our young talent for him.
Theycan trade Vonleh if it doesn't create an aggregate total They trade the pick to shed Landry and Thompsons contrace so they have max space ($27M). They could sign Monta Ellis to bring off the bench for 30+ min a game and Tyson Chandler, and use whatever is left for a Jared Dudley type PG Lawson / Collison SG W. Chandler / Monta SF Gay / Dudley PF Leonard / Evens C T. Chandler / Cauley-Stein That's a Western Conference playoff team, with max cap space the following year even if everyone returns. That's worth the pick, plus DMC
After my OP I would consider signing a SF such as Aminu for $6 million and Wes for $9 million starting salaries for as many years as they want. Sign Mike Dunleavy with the room exception. Cousins / Plumlee Aldridge/ Vonleh Aminu / Dunleavy Wes / Hendo / Pat Lillard / / Frazier We would need a vet backup PG and vet minimum salary big but still an elite starting group and three quality bench players. The two question marks in the starting lineup; Aminu and a recovering Wes, have quality backups in Dunleavy and Hendo.
