"Bill Simmons: I think Brook Lopez is a dark horse Portland [trade] candidate." Insurance? To keep him away from OKC?
As always, depends on the price, to me. I'd happily swap out Kaman with him on our bench. It's a move that has seemingly little risk of hurting chemistry, with Robin on the team to ease any sort of issues. I don't know what it'd reasonably take to get him, however. They have no big need to tank this season, sinc Atlanta can swap picks with them. And if we lose too many bench pieces to add him, we still don't fill our need for a bench wing. Kaman, Robinson, CJ saves them a ton of money and gets them a nice prospect in CJ. But we're back where we started in needing a bench scorer, and down an asset in CJ to acquire one.
Some Nets fans on Twitter seemed to like the idea of Kaman, Trob, and the pick. I doubt that matches salaries though.
Kaman, Barton, McCollum, Robinson for Lopez works under the cap. It would bring our roster down to 12 players and allow us to be players in the buyout market for guys like Tayshaun Prince.
They wouldn't do it without the pick. I think they would without CJ and I'd prefer to keep him. I bet they'd ask for Freeland.
I think it could be overkill and it doesn't address the real need of adding a more dynamic scorer off the bench at two and three.
He gets paid $16,774,000 next year, and would come off the bench behind his brother. I don't see that working.
That's a lot of cap for a guy who can't stay healthy. And a lot of players to match. Sounds like a pipe dream and an "off season plan" breaker.
