Plausible destinations for our vets?

it's nearly 27M/year by the way

the problem is that if you look at teams that might have had an interest is Simons as a starter, it would have (probably) been Dallas, before they added Kyrie, and Orlando, before they added KCP. Other than those two teams, I can't really see any others that would be willing to pay much at all for Simons

I know the Spurs have been mentioned, but they have a loaded back court with Vassell, Keldon Johnson, CP3, Stephon Castle, Tre Jones, and Malaki Branham. Another team that has been mentioned is Detroit, but their back court is pretty full with Cunningham, Hardaway Jr., Jaden Ivey, Ausar Thompson, Malik Beasely, and Marcus Sasser

as far as any team that might be willing to consider Ant as a PG I'd wonder if the Pelican's experience with the 'CJ-at-PG' experiment has shut down that market

and the notion of Ant as a 6th man falls apart, IMO, with the reality of that 27M/year salary and his undersized no-defense flaws. Maybe the Blazers might be willing to experiment but no other team would want to

 

ok...it might make some sense if you stretched imagination a little; but I can't see it making nearly enough sense to the Pistons that they'd fork over a 1st round pick that didn't have substantial protections. By the way, the earliest 1st round pick Detroit has available is 2029...lol...there's that draft again

 

So what I am hearing is Joe will have to give them away for next to nothing. OR just keep them and run it back like last year and purgatory continues? I still think the latter is what the team will do. Play hard as you can until the trade deadline then shut down the starters and tank. Sound familiar?

 

If only one, trade Grant first

 

Huh?

 

Makes sense in that Cade is a big PG and they can really use Ant’s shooting.

But yeah, no draft assets. But lots of young talent like Ausar/Ivey.

 

Aaron Fentress: “What they’re doing right now, making it clear that Scoot Henderson and Shaedon Sharpe are the centerpieces of the rebuild, means you gotta move Anfernee. Especially because you’ve committed to two guards, and Anfernee is better than both of them right now, right? You have to start Anfernee or it’s gonna look silly. If they don’t start Anfernee, he’s gonna probably demand a trade. So he’s about to go at some point soon.”

 

Aaron Fentress: “Grant, you can probably wait a little while longer because he’s clearly one of your best forwards by far. So you can start him and justify that, and it’s not a big deal. But as cool a guy as Grant is, Grant doesn’t want to waste his 30s, what years he has left, on a team that’s actively tanking again and might even tank again the next year. He wants to go somewhere where he can win, so both of them will be, I predict both of them will be gone by next summer.”

 

But only plays one half of the court...

 

IF the Blazers just wanted to "dump" one of them they could have accepted a crappy Laker trade by now so that thinking is flawed as hell. Also as much shit as I give Cronin he is playing the Grant and maybe Ant trade situations perfectly cause they are worth more then cast off parts and a late 1st round pick. As much as I do think Grant more then Ant need to be gone before the season starts I want any trade to make sense and not be another Clipper BS trade or the CJ trade where the Blazers only got like 70 to 80% of the value in return. -- FACT

 

Or you can take the Morey/Simmons approach of just sitting them and waiting for opposing teams' valuations to match yours...

 

BUT: they won't give up Ausar and we don't want Ivey.

Plus their new GM's #1 stated goal is to improve their defense, and if that's your goal you don't trade for Anfernee.

I was hopeful they'd take Jerami back so that they'd at least reach the salary floor, but they went with Harris instead.

 

I think Fentress is wrong: I think both of them will be in training camp with the plan to pump up their value and dump them by the trade deadline.

 

Fentress is rarely correct. My guess is he got his information from a message board and is stating what many think.
If Joe wanted to leak that information, (to create inquiries) he is going to Woj.

 

I would suspect Joe has no loveloss for Fentress after the Dame to MIA debacle.

 

That's pretty common with really talented scorers. If he were a good defender he'd be a max player.

 

And then I'd want to keep him and build around him.

 

I’m not sure either of those team archetypes exist at all. But I will say that the Blazers are a verifiably terrible team and contract aside, Ant would probably look better with a shot diet of open looks vs taking the hardest shots in the league on average.

 

credit Mike from Locked on Blazers. He drifted into enemy territory, and sold Jerami Grant hard to the Locked on Lakers guys. I left the pod believing Jerami Grant is an MVP candidate on a salary cap friendly contract.