Hmm, okay. I thought it disallowed trading away 1st round picks in consecutive years unless first acquiring others to fill in.
The day after the last draft we owned our pick and available to trade. I hate trading first-rounders but if you can land a young big like Monroe you do it without blinking.
Sounds like if the situation is right Monroe will agree to signing to the team he's traded to. Detroit offered Monroe, who'd resign with Atlanta, for Teague and Korver. Atlanta rejected. Get'r done, Neil!
Bro, if he's traded he won't have his bird rights. The team trading for him must have enough cap space to retain him. He's gonna get at least 12 mil, probably more.
Dude, that was a horrible deal for ATL, and clearly Detroit has ridiculous expectations right now. Sounds like Houston last year with Asik.
Trading for Monroe is a trade for this year and not for the future unless you want to offer him a Max contract. I don't want a max player coming off the bench and I don't think Monroe is an upgrade over either Lopez or LA.
Some outlets even reported Momroe to Portland was "close" but pulled out as Neil got gun shy - Batum? Sounds like Neil had a complex plan in place knowing the FA situation this coming summer. Greg and his agent pushed for a deal with either Portland or OKC.
Hahahaha! Detroit wanted a top 6 PG and the best shooter in the game for Monroe!? Hilarious. That's practically like trading Lillard and Wes for Monroe.
Yeah, it's their own fault they traded Brandon Knight for that scrub Jennings. Aldridge would be worth a package of Teague/Korver/etc but not Monroe.
We have a shooter who can't play defense on the bench now only he's taller and cheaper. I like being a better defensive squad and Monroe could easily start on a lottery team instead of playing behind LA on the bench. He's playing behind Smith now which is Stan Van Gundy's biggest mistake. Picking up unhappy Piston players just seems to never work out for the recipients.
I was against it at first but I am starting to come around to the idea of trading for Lance Stephenson rather than a Monroe
I keep going back and forth on it, and I think right now am in the pro trading for him side. He's a little off, but the fact that Indiana is at least open to the idea of bringing him back leads me to believe he wasn't the chemistry issue there last season. Weith one more year, and a team option after that, it also gives us a small bit of insurance in case Wes took a huge deal elsewhere.
If you sign him as a UFA in the summer, you don't have to give Detroit anything. If you can't figure out how to make it work, then you're talking about a rental and losing rights to $5M worth of players.
If you wait to sign him as a free agent, you also don't hae use of him over the next 6 months, which would be the idea behind trading for him
