Notice 16 players the Portland Trail Blazers should consider trading for

Turner would be coming home to a Chicago where he played well a few days ago?

 

He's also 29 an has $2.5+ years left on a contract that pays him $17+ million a year.

None of that is desirable for a team that is rebuilding. The Bulls aren't making the playoffs and have no reason to want to add an overpaid veteran like Turner.

BOS would probably like to have him back, but not at his currently salary. They are probably saving all of their eggs to toss in the Anthony Davis basket anyway.

CLE might be interested, but we'd have to add on Ed Davis (who would be the guy they'd really want) and take back a couple of their bad contracts.

TOR could probably use him as a DeMarre Carroll replacement, but if they wanted that, they could have just kept Carroll and saved some money.

Yeah, I'm just not seeing a lot of possibilities. If something does happen with Turner, it will probably be a three or four team deal. I don't see many (if any) straight up swaps that would work for both teams.

BNM

 

Minnesota
Turner + ED ($23.5M) for Dieng + Aldrich + Muhammad ($22.9M)
- Minnesota shuffles things around. The get a wing (which they want) and a productive backup big to replace Dieng. They also get to dump two contracts of players who are out of the rotation. Also keeps Minny out of the tax.

Chicago
Dieng + Mo + Swainagan ($25.6M) for Mirotic + Grant ($14.2M)
- Chicago gets a starting center to replace RoLo, and they roll the dice on a couple of prospects for a bit of cap space.

Portland
Aldrich + Muhammad + Mirotic + Grant ($23M) for Turner + ED + Mo + Swainagan ($35M)
- Portland gets a bunch of 2-year deals and gets out of the longer term salary of ET & Mo.
Muhammad is a placeholder at backup SF (behind Aminu). Grant allows Portland to start looking to swap Napier for a longer term solution at SF.

 

My top target would be Marcus Smart.

The perfect third guard. You could probably even get away with him starting at SF -- he's that good of a defender.

 

Smart is awesome, but what would it take

 

would Mirotic be a good fit for this team, I mean, he can shoot, but he doesnt play defense and he wouldnt shoot as much as for the CHI
Im not sure I would do anything at the PF position, Id stick with Vonleh and Collins

get a shooter at the SF position... yes we could bring both Mirotic and SF and suddenly become very good shooting team, but our defense would likely be not as good as it is now, so question is how much worse would it get and would it be worth it