The 2022 Trade Idea Thread, now with more urgency!

I think once we come to the realization our season is a bust, making trade decisions becomes a lot easier. Teams like Boston and Atlanta are underperforming expectations. SAC/MIN/NY/CHA are desperate for the playoffs. GS/UTA/MIL/CHI are all going to try to bolster their existing rosters.

I think we'll have no trouble extracting picks or useful contracts for Roco/Nurk.

 

Genuinely don't think it would take more than a pick to land Wood given his depressed value. Here's an idea. Roco would slot in well next to Vucevic, while a Wood-Vucevic lineup is a bit clunky, hence the three teamer where Wood ends up here (we'd obviously have to find subsequent deals for Nurk). It's a risky move for us with Wood's volatility but we kick the can down the road for a year on his FA.

 

Dort has DPOY potential.

 

Windhorst headlined his trade deadline preview with ATL and POR.

Suggested tankathon is coming for Portland and people around the league are anticipating Cov/Powell/Nurk could be on the move, and we let Simons do his thing for the rest of the year. Being on the cusp of the play-in makes it not yet definitive that the Blazers are sellers. But given that not many teams are sellers, this could be a good time for Portland to extract more value in this down market.

Windhorst said there's more of an appetite for CJ in a trade to a mid-market team than you'd expect.

 

Use the Kings as an example. Sacramento is now reportedly open to making De’Aaron Fox and/or Tyrese Haliburton available in the right deals, and those aren’t equal propositions for Philadelphia. In all likelihood, sources say, a deal involving Fox would almost certainly have to be a three-team deal, moving Fox to another party in order to get what the Sixers think they need. And while the Sixers like Haliburton and feel good about his potential fit, the sense is he’s not at the level they’re after for a primary piece in return for Simmons, that the Iowa State product would need to be one part in a more extravagant return.

Tyrese Maxey’s emergence looms large in all of this, with Philadelphia seeing redundancy between Maxey and players like Fox, preferring to keep rolling with the hard-working kid they already have in-house
https://www.phillyvoice.com/sixers-...yrese-haliburton-deaaron-fox-analysis-latest/
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translation: not happening

 

Might as well deal Dame too then.

 

What if you were willing to deal anyone - Lillard included, but kept simons and Nassir, and could end up with De’Aron Fox, Bagley, Maxey and Ben Simmons. You lose CJ, Nurk, Lillard, Roco, Norm. (A lot) Now your core is all 23-25 years old. You obv need size. You add it in draft and another deal.

 

So we end up with Ant, Fox and Maxey??? I don't like that. If we got one of those guys offloaded to another team for some size then I could see it but I actually don't want any of them playing together because they're all best with the ball in their hands and are small.

 

“The new look Blazers”

 

Yikes

 

This is a good reference tweet. Knicks have 2. Their own and from CHA (top 18 protected). Memphis has full control of three firsts.

 

Green font?

 

Grieferz

 

Big time

I’d actually cry

 

Man, Wall's contract kills me every time I see it.

 

Probably the worst contract in the NBA, right?

 

Definitely one of them. Wall can still kinda play when he does. I would have included Love in that convo but he has been playing ok. Russ is up there.

Davis Bertans is a joke but it is still more than half the Wall deal.

 

And Ben

 

I'm all for ending up with Ben... and the value you're getting in return on that trade is good, I am just sick of teams with pieces that don't fit together. So I would try to find another home for Fox, Maxey or both.