Trade Deadline: February 6, 2025

Hard to match Salary without Monk, LaVine, DeRozan or Domas.

ie. Unlikely.

 

All about the contracts …
Grant can be traded this summer … with his longer contract sooner is better.
By February, 2026, Ayton has to be gone as he’s UFA that summer.
So is Ant. And Time Lord. And Thybulle is a p-opt after this season and a UFA a season after that.

Trades in February 2026 mean having less trade leverage then little to none afterwards.
And few people (???) on this board want them all back next season.

4 more days and we have some answers.
Cronin is on the clock.

 

To me the one guy that has to go has got to be Ant. I want Sharpe and Scoot to be starters. Grant can move to the bench if he doesn’t get traded and Ayton is still legit starting center in this league at young age. Clingan isn’t ready to start and play starter minutes

 

Likelihood of a trade imo…

1. RW3
2. Thybulle
3. Reath
4. Ant
5. Grant


6. Ayton

 

RW3 to LAL
Thybulle to DAL
Ant to Orl

Calling my shots. I think Cronin surprises us.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/BKLCPfrdtM

Shopping Ant, Grant and DA. Shopping RW for the right price.

 

Agreed

 

I am going to lay off Cronin until the end of this offseason cause after thinking about it more while up to the Dame trade has been like a C minus to a Solid C ---- Since the Dame trade I think his grade is like a Solid B. I will admit my opinion of Cronin comes from my belief on how he handled the whole Dame drama thing and not looking to rehash that just saying where my bias on Cronin is coming from. However and I know some are like were winning so why all this talk of we have to trade Ant , Grant and Ayton.

Well the simple truth is none of these players really fit this team for the future and at least 2 of them are holding young players back from getting more playing time maybe 3. I like seeing the Blazers win as much as the next fan but right now winning is hurting the future of this team specially if the threee mentioned are the main cause for the wins. The ball is in Cronin's court and I for one am hoping at least one of the vets are gone by the end of the deadline and if not then Grant , Ant and maybe Ayton need there minutes trimmed and other things to make sure Scoot , Sharpe and DC get a couple more minutes a game so we can see if they have what it takes to lead this team into a new era of winning basketball and if we are lucky bring a championship back to the rose city.

 

One thing that we've learned over the last day and a half is that the idea that the new CBA would stop big contracts from being moved was bullshit... pure and simply not true. Four huge contracts got moved and in both trades smaller contracts went to third teams. I realize using those third teams was probably more a symptom of the complexity of the new CBA but no GM gets to tell their fanbase that they couldn't get things done they wanted to because of the new CBA.

If Joe can't get shit done it's because he's either not creative enough or not flexible enough. That's to say that if he wants to do something and just can't it's because of incompetence, that doesn't mean if nothing happens it's because Joe couldn't though. We might be trending in the direction he wants us to... who the fuck knows?

 

I guess that depends on whether you want to get any value. I'm sure we could probably move Grant for nothing. Did you see what Chicago got for LaVine?



LaVine is a really good player this. Yes he has a big contract, but look how good he is.

This is all they got for a guy putting up All Star numbers. Zach Collins, Tre Jones, Kevin Huerter, their own 2025 pick via SAS

 

I thought after the Luka deal it's a given Lebron is enroute to the Warriors

 

Yeah, I guess it just comes down to what another GM wants and how much he wants it.. I wouldn't be shocked if Jerami got a similar return, I wouldn't be shocked if the return for Jerami was similar type of filler contracts with just a second instead of a first. I won't be surprised if Jerami is still here.

I mean you want to point out what LaVine got the Bulls but someone else might say that if Fox is worth 3 first round picks, one future second and a very high second in this draft, then Jerami is likely worth one first rounder, especially if it's top 10 protected and turns into two second rounders if it's not conveyed.

The fact is all of these guys are very different players and again it just depends on who wants them and how bad they want them. Joe has also set this up in a way that he seems like he'd be just as happy to keep everyone. That is pretty slick but it's only really slick if it ever gives him the upper hand in trade negotiations or if our roster is already on a path to contention without any major moves being needed.

 

makes way more sense than the Mike fuckin Scotto report the other day wheem everybody freaked out.

 

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

 

Is Nico Harrison the new Tonya Harding?

 

Nance would be nice bench player, I always liked his game just not as starter

 

So the one player out of all of them, that needs to be traded, is Ant because you want Scoot and Sharpe to start. I also want those two to start, but I am failing to understand
why you say they could bring Grant off the bench if he is not traded, but you can't bring Ant off the bench. What is the difference between the two?