Trade Idea Realistic trade options for summer of 2023

pretty sure if they sign him they can't trade him to Dec 15 (but it might be for 60 days?) unless it's a S&T. But no team is going to had cap themselves for Reddish

Little has no trade value other than as filler, but I'd imagine having 4 years left on his deal makes it negative value

 

So what is the answer to the question? Which one of the two has a better chance of being included in a secondary trade as Tykendo suggested? Neither?

 

KAT is only 27. And not long ago, the GM poll said KAT is the player they choose to start a new team.

 

only if the goal was to keep adding lottery picks

 

No way would Kat be ok with being on a team that is starting over again. At 27 he is ready to go deep into the playoffs.
A Dame for Kat is not a good idea.

 

I don't know....I was just pointing out that signing Reddish and trading him this summer might not be possible

I'd think Little could be filler salary in a primary trade where the moving parts are substantial enough that Little's 4-years-remaining on his contract would be insignificant. But I'd also think that "secondary" trades are much more likely heading into next season's trade deadline than this summer

 

Little has more trade value because he’s on a very reasonable contract.

 

he's also missed dozens of game because of injury and has had several surgeries, including his current 2nd core muscle surgery.

his salary is not good but it's also not an albatross salary, more like a speculation-for-filler salary. Having 4 years left on his deal only has positive value if he quickly generates production and efficiency in the next 4 seasons he hasn't yet generated in the previous 4 seasons.

 

I guess it depends on the other team. First, we do not know what Cam's new contract will be. Maybe it will just be the one-year qualifying offer and then he is a free agent. That could be a negative or a positive for the other team if they want an ending contract for some reason.

 

Little has somewhere between a little bit of value to no value to a little bit of negative value.

I could see a team like the Spurs happy to take him on in the hope he becomes a good role player worth a first round pick(s) on a very cheap contract. Him having injury history could be a positive, in that if he becomes more healthy he could be worth more. If he doesn't improve his contract isn't that much dead weight.

I could see a team like the Raptors not wanting him at all as they have so many wings and might prefer salary flexibility.

For a trade of a star his value is nearly irrelevant as the contract matching is more critical. In a lesser player trade his value is likely pretty low but we don't know for certain it will be negative.

 

I had a weird dream that the Blazers roster next season included Dame, Giannis and Embiid. Not sure if anyone else was on the team.

 

Jaylen Brown duh

 

Just read that the Bucks fired coach Bud....can we trade Brooks for him?

 

Nurk is the better rebounder and defender between the two. Those were pur two biggest weaknesses. Don't see why we'd make those areas worse for a guy that needs the ball in his hands to be effective on offense.

 

With Nurk injury history and the league having so few traditional centers I'm just not as high on Nurk as you are.

But they are valid points you bring up: and possibly some good GMs would agree with.

I didn't see why we'd hard cap the team to sign a 3rd string PG, or trade away Hart if we're trying to get vets to win urgently with Dame; but here we are. In that context DeRozen seems like the exact type of addition these Blazers would do.

 

Good luck finding a starting C without an injury history. It's very common. So unless you want no legitimage bigs (we only had 1 last year and it hurt us) then I don't see a way around this. He started shooting 3s, so what does "traditional" even mean at this point?

Yeah, Cronin and Jody may continue to suck, wouldn't surprise me one bit!

 

Ya, Cronin is trash. He identified Dame as THE player to target in the draft. As GM he added the best player we’ve obtained in forever and drafted, what appears to be, a complete stud in Sharpe.

 

How do you know the first part?

 

he may have been director of scouting back then, although, IIRC, it might have been scouting players already in the NBA

I think pretty clearly that Chad Buchannen was the main reason why the Blazers landed Lillard. He was the head of college scouting; and after elevated to interim GM he engineered the Gerald Wallace-->Nets trade that returned the 6th pick. Both Jason Quick and Chris Haynes talked about how it was Buchannen that had long targeted Lillard and that Dame was the main motivation behind the Wallace trade. This was all set up and in motion before Olshey arrived by the way

 

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