ShooterSays

Bc DJM is the best player in the trade by far. We shouldn’t have to give up AJ too to get that bum return from the Knicks.

I call BS. AJ being included is a dead giveaway this is fake. Hawks don’t have to include him bc NYK would still do that trade 100% without him in there.

I don’t disagree. We’re in a very perilous spot right now. But if you’re not getting good value in trades for guys like Cap or Dre, what else do you do?

If you start trading guys for picks and expirings you do.

My guess would be they want money to spend in free agency and picks to trade if a star becomes available. Risky...

That bite has them in first place so far. And he’a played in 80% of games last year and 75% so far this year.

https://www.si.com/nba/jazz/news/report-jazz-lauri-markkanen-nba-trade-deadline “Report: Jazz’s Lauri Markkanen ‘Off the Market’ Amid NBA Trade Deadline” Welp….that sucks. Really don’t see a path forward in a DJM trade right now that makes us better. Can we maybe get some good picks? Sure, I guess. But might be better off just hanging on to him until the off-season and praying someone like KAT, JB, or Bridges becomes available. We really should have tried to get KP in the offseason. JJ/KP/OO would have been great.

That’s exactly what we need. Really any team should want that. Whats the catch then? Why is NY looking to trade him? Seems like that should be a good fit in between Brunson and OG.

Can Grimes defend?

Travis failed too. No way Tony wins that argument or even demands that if the scouting report on Luka was right.

I can't dig through their picks now...but there's gotta be some value in there somewhere after the KD and Kyrie trades.

Let me be clear, any picks we get back for DJM should be used to try and get a star to pair with Trae/JJ. We already committed to "winning-now" when we traded our picks for DJM. No going back now unless you want to trade Trae and tank. And that's not even a great option because whatever team Trae goes to, will probably not be in the lottery. Our best option is to try and build around Trae/JJ. If you can get Claxton and picks for DJM, you all of a sudden have picks AND OO17 who you can try and get a star for.

Those PHX picks could be gold mines.

Windy doesn't usually miss. Nets aren't a bad option for us if we could trade DJM + Cap and get Claxton and picks back.

If we were a top 4 team in the East, a contender, no one would really care about transferring 2 FRP’s in the 20’s to the Spurs and a pick swap that wasn’t going to happen. BUT… The problem is, the pieces don’t fit right. We’re too small. We can’t defend. We’re a cluster f*** and it looks like 3 top 10 picks are about to go to a team that just got Wemby.

How are we getting cooked so bad by a Hali-less Pacers team? Sad. Time for some changes.

How long is this gonna drag out?

Maybe, but your guy #12 is gone if we do.

My money is on Dallas.

“point-of-attack defender” LOL Sensitive topic around here. If this were the case we wouldn’t be trading him.

Does OO count? He’s been untouchable for a couple years now until a couple months ago. OO and picks might satisfy.

Trae/Caruso/JJ/Lauri/Claxton We don’t have the assets now to make this happen, but if you unload DJM, Dre, and Cap…maybe…just maybe we would. Get enough cap space and just sign Claxton over the summer as an UFA. This would be the perfect lineup around Trae imo with guys who are rumored to be available - size, shooting, and defense. This lineup has it all.

Coincidence?

I’m not saying we have to keep those picks if we get them back. I’d hope we’d use them to get a star. But I haven’t seen a single credible rumored trade yet for DJM that makes us better. So if we’re going to trade him, at least get the most value possible back. And those picks are probably it.

Spurs are easily our best trade option. Sitting at 14-21 with a lot of uncertainty about our future, those 2 unprotected picks and that pick swap are the most valuable assets we could get back in a trade BY FAR. Even if you want to put another star around Trae, which should be the goal, getting those picks back is the easiest way to do that.