Trade Idea Post and Discuss Trade Ideas for the 2019-20 Season

Waiting for tomorrow when they can start taking advantage of 10-day contracts is literally the last excuse left as to why there isn't another big on the roster.

 

is there an updated list of available free agents somewhere

 

Maybe it is Mika?

 

All the lists I can find show players that I know have signed elsewhere so you have to figure it out by yourself.

 

Give me Deyonta Davis.

 

if Jaylen Hoard can't help as much as a 10-day signee, why do they have him on a 2-way....I'd wonder. And wouldn't they start playing Hezonja more if the just needed another body?

I've nothing against trying 10-day contracts, but that seems like putting a band-aid on fracture at this point

 

Because they need someone to play minutes at center, and no one on the roster is capable outside of Whiteside.

 

who is available that would definitely be better than Tolliver or Brown?

I guess a question is how long will Skal be out

 

Well Tolliver isn't a Center, they keep trying to stuff that square peg into the round hole but he's just not.... Brown doesn't really get any consistent minutes and seems to just be kind of out there without direction.

 

I think you're looking at it wrong. It's not that they need someone better than those guys, they just need another body. 10-day contracts are a way to bring in another body without committing to a player for the rest of the season once we get bigs healthy and at the same time help keep the tax burden minimal for adding a player to the roster.

 

I mean, pretty much everyone.

 

I understand the purpose of 10-day contracts. I also know Hezonja has had a bad back....? My point was that Hoard and Brown are bodies they aren't using. Although I guess that would eventually butt up against that 45-day limit

if it's a C, the only people I can think of are guys like Amir Johnson, Zaza Pachulia, Jason Smith, Tyler Zeller....and I seriously doubt any of those guys would go the 10-day contract route

so then I guess we're talking mostly about g-league affiliate players?

 

Some bigs that are free agents. Some of them are under contract overseas but they can usually get out of those rather easily.

Eric Moreland
Kenneth Faried
Greg Monroe
Eric Mika
Deyonta Davis
Chris McCullough
Andrew Bogut
Henry Ellenson
Marcin Gortat
Ekpe Udoh
Tyler Zeller

I don’t know how many of them are realistically available, but I do know every one of them would be an upgrade over Tolliver. Moses isn’t even an option as he’s not really ready for the NBA and he would have to be converted to a standard contract once his days are used up anyway.

 

Drummond to Portland?

 

I hope not.

Moreland is an interesting gamble.

 

If I remember correctly the Blazers have had interest in Drummond in the past. So this isn't all that shocking.

 

I mean I feel like if I think about it long enough I’d buy in, but I don’t really see the point. It would probably also cost one of Collins and Simons, at least.

 

If his plan is to opt out, what is the logic on our part? We're either trading an expiring for an expiring or we're going to have Whiteside/Drummond/Nurk on the same roster?

 

I guess it will cost us Nurk as we cannot expect them to be ok with a timeshare. And there is literally no reason to give a max to Drummond while we have Nurk with 12M. If you don't trust Nurks recovery just keep Hassan, he should be way cheaper.

 

ok then...I misunderstood. I thought we were talking about 10-day candidate contracts and those guys don't seem like candidates for those

I guess I'm thinking that Portland has had roster space + vet minimum contracts + disabled player exception for a while and has not made any move. Not sure why