Wouldn't his partial guarantee have to be made fully guaranteed before he could be traded, since it's after the trade deadline?
Then who is the decision maker these 3 effectively report to? I don't see Jody being that involved, so I guess Burt at Vulcan. I'm just guessing but I'd think Cronin is in charge of all of them and his salary is at least 3-4 million. A new 2-3 billion owner wouldn't care about paying that or just putting a Prez above him.
No. Only has to be guaranteed enough to make it a legal trade. Since he'd be going into Portland's TPE - Atlanta would not 'need' any of his contract to be guaranteed.
Burks makes $10M a year. He's a better player than most on a MLE level contract, and under-rated as a player. He's a perfect backup at the 2/3
Hawks CEO tries to shut down Collins to POR rumors but reveals he's clueless about some of our contracts and the basics of the CBA. https://soaringdownsouth.com/2022/06/10/atlanta-hawks-executive-sounds-off-trade-rumors-starts-bull/ But Mike Bell wasted little time asking about the rumor from Fischer of Collins going to the Portland Trail Blazers for the seventh-overall pick. Koonin treated that rumor as such. “Let me break this down. We have unsubstantiated rumors from unnamed people about an unnamed trade. And how does the seventh pick equivocate to a $25 million player when trades have to offset money?” The Hawks’ top executive put the exclamation point on his stance. “I would say it starts with bull and ends with…” He continued by explaining that, right now, the rumors are mostly smoke. But that could soon change. “This doesn’t get real serious until, probably, Monday of draft week. There’s a lot of hypotheses.”
With the draft around the corner this new Netflix movie, Hustle, with Adam Sandler is really good. Shows how much of a pain being a scout can be for a person in the NBA.
Nurkic and #7 to PHX for Ayton Buck’s #1 (2025) our #36 and Keon to ATL for Collins And some scheme to get Grant
The Suns don't plan on resigning him. Why would se give them #7 when he's already out the door? Poor negotiation. They'll take Nurk because he's cheaper. That's not enough for Collins.
It's not worth it unless we get 2 of Collins, Grant, Randle, OG (or 2 other players of this or better caliber who can balance the roster). But yeah, just trading 7 for Grant would be a mistake, IMO. If you can't swing that just pick the best player available.
I don't think the salaries work to get Ayton and anybody else. In fact, I think we might have to give up Simons as well...
A quote from early in the first show. The owner's son really likes a prospect from Germany, but Sandler's character, Stanley Sugarman, says there are some red flags about the player's work ethic. Also, the teams wins more when that guy doesn't play. Owners son - "Listen Dad, he's a 19-year-old seven footer with a 35 foot range and a guard's handle. I see him in another team's jersey I'm gonna goddam kill someone." Sugarman shrugs his shoulders in resignation. "Cool."
I've heard a lot of Knicks fans, podcasters, etc say they'd be excited to give up Randle and #11 for #7. Detroit also seems like they'd love to get #11 for Grant. We feel like #7 is too much to give up for Grant, but if we could get Randle and Grant for the #7 and 2 expirings I think that makes everybody happy. And we'd have the best team we've had since Wes went down. In fact, I think we'd be better than that team by quite a lot.
