Merged: |0fficial| Trade Deadline

Starting to obsess unhealthily over getting Brook Lopez. I wonder if Aminu + Vonleh + Leonard would tempt them. They have good young wings in Bojan and RHJ so they wouldn't necessarily demand a SG or something in return.

Main question: do they own their own pick? If so, then they have incentive to trade Lopez to tank.

Otherwise, could Philly absorb Crabbe, trade kicker and all, for Noel? Then what would be needed to work a three way so we end up with Lopez?

 

The thing is, we can't even look at trading Crabbe until January (?) I think. That's just so far off. He better start playing a lot better, or nobody is going to want that contract.

I'm pretty sure they don't have their pick. Maybe they do, because it was my understanding that they couldn't trade consecutive picks. Either way

 

That's right.... I knew it was something like that. It's amazing how much they fucked themselves to acquire Garnet and Pierce.

 

Okay. That just means we have to work Boston into the complicated trade somehow, and what they trade is their right to swap picks. Good activity to take one's mind off the impending end of civilization.

 

Can't trade Crabbe to Nets until next summer since he signed their offer sheet and we matched

 

If I'm Anthony Davis I'm demanding a trade after come this trade deadline.

 

Jahlil. Okafor.

 

Any chance of this type of deal near the deadline?

PELICANS GET:
F Rudy Gay
C Mason Plumlee
KINGS GET:
G/F Allen Crabbe
F Noah Vonleh
G Langston Galloway
2017 POR 1st
2018 CLE 1st
2018 Right to Swap any 1st with NOP
2019 POR 1st
BLAZERS GET:
C Demarcus Cousins
G Jrue Holiday

Who says yes? Who's iffy? Who hangs up the phone?

Dame / Holiday / 'Bazz / TQ
CJ / Holiday / Pat
Moe / Turner / Layman
Aminu / Davis / Cousins
Cousins / Ezeli / Leonard

 

I think the Pels would be iffy on that.

 

Pelicans should give up Holiday for not much. Gone in the Summer anyway and they will probably be about 8-40 when next year comes and they have to make decisions.

Kings will let Cousins go for the right price and will let Gay move for not much because he is gone in the Summer. If we want to make him a short stop signing at small forward, then pretty much any of our assets will do. Cousins will be problematic, Crabbe will absolutely have to be included and from watching them yesterday, they could really use him. Evan Turner is someone they would decline to take IMO but could be traded to Brooklyn who could use him. The likes of Aminu, Leonard, Plumlee are players Kings could probably fancy. Picks will be important for them too because they will be looking for potential. The problem with letting Cousins go is that they lose a lot by letting him go but have no chance to get a star back. Getting Brooklyn's pick from Boston would be their best option as next draft looks good in terms of talent but I very much doubt Boston will give them that.

 

With Turner though, the way he has been playing and $75M investment considered, we could probably trade him AND a first round pick for a second round pick to someone who would be willing to take on his contract. He has been this bad.

 

Yeah, idk. Holiday is expiring, and theyd get two starters that I think would fit well next to Davis.

 

Gay is also expiring. Plumlee would be good for them.

 

Looks like they might not want to trade him after this.

 

I haven't browsed this thread but John Henson screams like an olshey move to me.

 

That makes the Warriors better. No thank you.

 

Would be a bad move for Boston.