Trade Ideas Thread

I would do this in a second. Occasional sightings of Boban lumbering through down town scaring anyone who saw him makes it worth on its own!

 

Supposedly ownership has approved major moves if the team finds them, but I haven't heard anything with the Blazers in a while. At least not anything I'd buy into. https://t.co/mCU2qAY1hp

 

So far everything reported says business as usual. Everything else is just speculation. I’ll just assume Olshey has the ok. The issue is it’s olshey.

 

The issue is our assets. Which is a slightly different way of saying the issue is Olshey.

 

Ah.

 

So I’ll play the hypothetical trade game, if we realisticly can’t win a championship until the Warriors dismantle why not get a little younger and spend a few season geling so our guys are mostly all in their prime the next time the window opens.



I believe a pick would have to be included also. We aren’t gonna do anything in free agency anyway next season and Anderson expires with ET, Hark, and Nards. Supposedly Ayton and Booker haven’t been seeing eye to eye and James Jones stated they are concentrating on NBA players, maybe a more mature(but not old) CJ could help that franchise on the floor and in the locker room.

It’s a HYPOTHETICAL trade if we were to plan more for the future than present, our future core 2-5 positions would all currently be between 21-24 years old.

Dame
Booker 22
Bridges 22
Collins 21
Nurk 24

 

I just realized we'll run into the same issues as BOS in trading for AD (if we're trading everyone but Dame). Dame is also a designated player extension like Kyrie, and we can only have one of them on the team. We won't even have the loophole BOS will this summer when Kyrie's contract expires. Need to put this pipedream of putting Dame and AD on the same team to bed.

According to wiki, these are the players who have such contracts still active:
Embiid, Davis, Wall, Irving, Dame.

 

You really think the Blazers want to pay around 148 mil in team salary next year? and that would be without Aminu, Curry, Stauskas and Baldwin

 

PHX would not do that. Booker isn't leaving for an older version of himself.

 

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Ross would interest me. So would Lin and Dedmons expirings.

 

Lin and Dedmon for Turner, Baldwin, and a protected first?

 

that's not really an issue though because in order to trade for Rose-rule players, you need some Rose-rule assets and Portland has almost none (unless you consider Nurkic & Zach a couple of the ancillary assets in a larger trade package)

Blazers certainly have the large salaries, so they have that covered...

yeah, and that's if you were talking about last season. This season, Booker has expanded his game. He's playing more as a point-SG and is averaging 4 assists more a game than CJ; he's actually averaging more assists than Dame. Now, he's also averaging a lot of turnovers but that will happen when playing a new role on a bad team. Booker has even improved his defense significantly while CJ is still crappy at defense

so no, Phoenix wouldn't consider trading the 6'6 Booker, who turned 22 less than 2 months ago and has shown he's a willing and capable play-maker, for 27 year old, 6'3 CJ, who has become more and more of a ball-hog and chucker each season

 

I think they may have modified this in the last CBA:

"There is a limit to the number of designated players a team can have on its roster at a time. A team can have up to two designated rookies (who received a longer rookie scale extension) and up to two designated veterans (who received higher than the 30% maximum salary) at any time. However, only one designated rookie and one designated veteran may have been acquired from another team in a trade."

To me that says we can have Dame and trade for a 2nd one (Davis) if a deal presented itself, doesn't it?

 

Booker has missed a significant amount of games the past 2 years.I think so far he has missed 1/3 of the season last year and so far this year. Booker is also playing PG, while CJ is playing strictly shooting guard this year. Booker has always been high in turnovers as he has averaged 3.6 turnovers per game over the last 3 years. Now with that said, I think Booker is an excellent player with a lot of talent, but I don't see either team interested in doing a deal like that.

 

Booker is exactly who the Suns need. A very young, rebuilding team, with a very good and young big man Ayton, Mikal Bridges, I mean...Booker is virtually untouchable. They would be insane to consider almost any deal for anyone outside a superstar.

 

So how does that limit Boston from trading for him in the future?

 

Well Boston traded for Kyrie so they can't trade for a 2nd one. However I think after this season when Kyrie's deal is up he'd be considered their free agent and not a traded for one if that makes sense.

I think it's possible Kyrie won't qualify for the bigger contract either.

 

CJ + ? To Orlando

Bamba + Fournier to Portland

Fight me.

 

Hell no on Fournier.