Merged: |0fficial| Trade Deadline

Sounds like PG13 not available

 

Not discrediting, just curious the source? I haven't followed any of the various links given

 

Zack lowe in the previous post

 

What else is happening?

• Our Chris Haynes reported the Pacers have floated their first-round pick in search of a veteran, which fits the general notion that a 29-28 mediocrity needs more to sway George. The roster is overloaded with bricky dribblers and plodding bigs; the Pacers need someone who can shoot, and play either on the wing or at power forward.
  
  They probably won't find a great fit. They didn't take a real look at Ibaka, sources say, and they're better off keeping the pick after flipping one for Thad Young. Indiana has drafted well on balance. We gush over Houston's ability to reload without bottoming out, but Indiana did the same thing; they haven't won fewer than 32 games since 1989!
  

• The Bucks are doing their due diligence to see if they can step into a seller's void, sources say. They'll at least listen on anyone but Antetokounmpo, Jabari Parker, Thon Maker, and Khris Middleton, though the main potential Greg Monroe landing spots have dried up. (Monroe seems likely to decline his $17.8 million player option for next season, at least as of now, a move that would give the Bucks an unexpected batch of cap space.) The Plumlee trade relieved any short-term cap stress, giving the Bucks a little more leverage.
  
  Minnesota has expressed a tepid interest in Tony Snell, who played under Tom Thibodeau in Chicago, sources say.
  
  
• As David Aldridge reported over the weekend, Portland and Philly were very close to a Jahlil Okafor deal, according to several league sources. The Sixers did not hold Okafor out for two games just to drum up the price, though they certainly had that in mind as a possible ripple effect. It wasn't just a smokescreen.
  
  
• Phoenix is taking calls on most of its veterans, with P.J. Tucker the best candidate to move, sources say. (Watch the Raptors and Clips, among others.) I'd be surprised -- and impressed -- if Phoenix got a first-rounder for him.
  
  
• All is quiet in Memphis.
  
  
• Houston is chasing a win-now move, sources say, and may send out K.J. McDaniels as the sweetener. McDaniels doesn't play, mostly because of a busted jumper. Some team should take a shot on him at the right price. If there's a lesson of the last half-decade of NBA trades, it's this: When there's a rangy or athletic wing that has even a 10 percent chance of being decent, try to grab that player as a throw-in to a larger deal. Think about how teams landed Crowder, Middleton, Iman Shumpert, Will Barton, and even Tim Hardaway Jr. You cannot have enough versatile wings.
  
  
• The free-falling Hornets could tank their way into something like the No. 7 pick, but they are designed to chase the postseason now -- and will almost certainly continue along that path, barring major injury.
  

 

I think some here may be over-valuing the draft picks. They are cool, but those two picks in the 20s...but as you know, the majority of guys taken in that range don't amount to jack squat.

 

Send them Crabbe!

 

That's what they said about DMC.

 

The Kings are idiots though.

 

So are the Bulls.

 

Rumor on the street is that Paul Millsap is on the table for Portland. 3 draft picks and a player. Allen Crabbe?

 

Where'd you hear that?

Of course Atlanta would do that, but Portland better not.

 

I hope that rumor gets left on the street so it can be cleaned up with the night's garbage.

 

No.

Maybe our two later picks

 

I would deal Crabbe. Might even throw in a 2nd our our lowest first, but no more. Paul has a player option next year. But I'd rather be giving him a ton of money than Crabbe.

 

Rumors Swirl Around Millsap
Again, Aldridge has another Blazers rumor to swirl. According to Blazer Gang, he spoke on NBA TV exclaiming that Atlanta’s Paul Millsap may be on the table for Portland. The price is essentially the Blazers’ draft picks and a player to even out the salary aspect of the trade.

The two contracts most similar to Millsap would be Allen Crabbe and Evan Turner. No matter who the Blazers throw into the deal to make the trade happen, at least two, if not all three draft picks would have to go to Atlanta in order for the deal to close


The draft picks must be enticing for Atlanta, but the talent comparison of Turner/Crabbe vs. Millsap isn’t even close. However, with the recent blockbuster trade involving Demarcus Cousins and New Orleans, anything is possible in today’s NBA. With Millsap locked into one more year of his deal, he could fall in love with Rip City and suddenly Portland has their big three.

Stay tuned to Rip City Project for new rumors as we approach the deadline.

 

I got it after the first 1500 times you said it.

 

3 1st round picks plus a player for Millsap? Maybe 4 years ago....not now.