Exclusive 2019 Trade Deadline Thread

I'm hearing Alec Burks to Houston for Knight and a 1st

 

https://bleacherreport.com/articles...trade-deadline-cheat-sheet-for-every-nba-team

Portland Trail Blazers

1. 
   
   
   
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   Buyers or Sellers: Buyers
   
   Untouchable Players: Zach Collins; Damian Lillard; CJ McCollum
   
   Notable Trade Assets: Al-Farouq Aminu (expiring at $7 million); Seth Curry (expiring at $2.8 million); Rodney Hood (expiring at $3.5 million; cannot be traded with another player); Jake Layman (RFA this summer); Jusuf Nurkic (three years, $36.9 million; $4 million partial guarantee in 2021-22); Anfernee Simons; Caleb Swanigan; Gary Trent Jr.
   
   Notable Inbound Draft Picks: All their own first-rounders
   
   Notable Outbound Draft Picks: 2019 second-round pick to L.A. Lakers or Orlando; 2020 second-round pick to Brooklyn (top-55 protection); 2021 second-round pick to Cleveland; 2023 second-round pick to Cleveland
   
   Best Salary-Matching Assets: Maurice Harkless (one year, $11.5 million); Meyers Leonard (one year, $11.3 million)
   
   Toughest Player to Move: Evan Turner (one year, $18.6 million)
   
   Most Likely Player to Be Traded: Meyers Leonard
   
   Salary-Cap Situation at a Glance: Almost $8 million over the luxury tax
   
   What to Watch: Can they acquire wing shooters capable of dribbling? Do they have a tax-evading move in them? Will they shed one of their less flattering contracts?
   
   Trade Idea:
   
   • Portland Trail Blazers Receive: Dewayne Dedmon, Taurean Prince
   • Atlanta Hawks Receive: Meyers Leonard, Anfernee Simons, 2019 first-round pick (lottery protection in 2019 and 2020; turns into 2024 and 2025 seconds if not conveyed); 2022 second-round pick
   File this one under "out of character" for the Blazers. They haven't been midseason movers and shakers for some time, and their first-round pick, despite reports to the contrary, never really seems like it's in play.
   
   Toss in the acquisition of Rodney Hood, and the Blazers feel done. Taurean Prince is a perfect addition if they're not. Portland needs more wings who can both dribble and shoot, and he fits that bill better than Hood.
   
   Coughing up what amounts to two first-round prospects is a tall order when Leonard is playing so well, but Dedmon functions as both cap relief and a frontcourt upgrade. If the Blazers are open to baking in another asset buffer, they can build a package around Simons, Evan Turner and that pick in exchange for Prince and Jeremy Lin.
   

 

If we could get Saric while keeping our 1st round pick but the crappy part is we help the Rockets too, would you still do it?

Here's what I was thinking:

Hawks get Harkless, Houston 2020 1st

Rockets get Aminu, Dedmon

Wolves get Taurean Prince, Houston 2021 2nd, Houston 2022 2nd

Blazers get Brandon Knight and Dario Saric

Keeping our 1st allows us to go after another trade too.

 

Why exacty are Zach and CJ listed as untouchables...? Nurk is on a much more team friendly contract and has out performed CJ most of the year...

 

Because it’s bleacher report.

 

A healthy Brandon Knight is a solid pg. Saric would flourish in Stotts system. Do it!

 

I'm hitting my F5 button on R/NBA like a guinea pig nosing the feeder button for a food pellet.

 

19.5 hours! Please just end this nonsense and make a trade... everyone!

 

ftfy

 

Porter is paid pretty high. Would have been nice, but hoping for BG now.

 

So that guy that said Jabari was leaving was right

 

So the Wizards swore up and down that they weren't trading Porter and Beal. Does this mean Beal is available?

 

This pretty much tells me that no one is willing to give anything for Turner/Leonard/Harkless even with draft picks attached.

If Neil signed them to 3 year deals instead of 4 it might not actually have been that bad.

 

Salary dumped Porter.