2024-25 Team Developments: Trades / Free Agents / News / Rumors / Ideas

i think fan pressure is real, and they're stoking the flames by stating this as the only goal. i don't know; if it were me, i'd allow myself some wiggle room. like "we'd like to get a high quality starting center, but we have to see what the market will bear. we have other ideas about how we can improve if we're unable to accomplish that goal."

but maybe i'm the only one who believes that.

knecht and a 1st?

i think costs are lower at the deadline because in the summer, everyone has hope of competing, and expirings for next summer are just not very appetizing. but in february when your season is doomed, that upcoming cap relief looks a lot more appealing and is much easier to sell to fans.

and part of the reason charlotte was willing to move williams was to avoid having to navigate his upcoming contract negotiations, imo. i'd argue he was not cost-controlled, and that was the problem.

claxton is cost-controlled on a declining contract.

anyway, knecht, a first and expirings for claxton is something i'd do, but i don't think that gets it done.

i'm not willing to do this for gafford or someone on that level. rather just tpmle to capela or lopez and admit we're going to play small for 24-30 minutes per game.

not much we can do if teams are asking for reaves to get a center of the quality that you're seeking, imo. as i'm not moving reaves for anything short of an allstar.

i honestly don't know why you'd want that job. the bar is to win a title with a roster that is not capable of doing so, imo.

that said, if i'm dallas, they can have kidd for a first round pick or some swap rights.

 

I hope it's not Horford. He'll get injured in a month and rehab for the reminder of the season, book it.

 

yeah, he's been so good for boston, but it's a ticking time bomb, and we have bad luck with those, i feel. also not the ideal fit. if i'm going with a floor spacing big, i might view brolo as less risky--though still quite risky.

 

wouldn't surprise me if the knicks were hoping to land kidd to attract giannis and once giannis made it clear he wanted to stay, that was that

not sure why udoka or finch would leave when both are in good positions with their respective teams. it would make more sense for them to go after someone like snyder or lue who are vet coaches on teams going nowhere

 

Who makes those rumors lol

Bleacher Report’s Andy Bailey proposed a deal in which the C Bags would give up Porzingis for forward Rui Hachimura, big Maxi Kleber, and two first-round pick swaps (2030, 2032). The C Bags would only clear $1.4 million in salary in that deal, but they would add a quality rotation player in Hachimura (13.1 points and five rebounds per game; 50.9 field goal percentage, 41.3 3-point percentage in 2024-2025) and gain a pair of potential assets.

 

Lakers would be eager to throw Reevez into that deal too!!

- -said every anti Laker media hag who ever existed!!!

 

wouldn't surprise me if we tried to nab zinger if the C Bags manage to offload his salary to say, bkn. feel like we could offer bkn expirings/vando/two swaps and keep rui to get it done. i'd make the C Bags kick in a pick or a swap to bkn to make it happen, too.

how ya like dat, C Bags bloggers?

 

Porzingis is tricky. If he's healthy, he'd be an awesome addition. It would be hilarious if we had not just Luka, but Porzingis who some Mavs fans think they also gave up on too quickly. But he's had a lot of lower body injuries and I have no idea what that weird illness thing was he had from like March through the playoffs.

 

yeah, and he's already failed next to luka, too. but that was miscast as a second option. on the other hand, it would still be a luka-centric offense, which isn't something he likes.

my point was really that we don't need to give boston anything. we can wait until they move their guys to a team that isn't interested in winning and deal with them if we want zinger or holiday.

 

If there was any hope that Tyrese Haliburton’s Game 1 game-winner would give the NBA Finals some much needed momentum, it was not to be in Sunday’s Game 2.

Sunday’s Pacers-Thunder NBA Finals Game 2 averaged 8.76 million viewers on ABC, down 29% from Mavericks-C Bags (12.31M) and the least-watched Game 2 of the Finals since the Heat-Lakers in the fall 2020 “bubble” . Outside of that anomalous circumstance, it was the least-watched since Cavaliers-Spurs opposite the series finale of “The Sopranos” in 2007 (8.55M).

The only other Game 2 with a smaller audience in the Nielsen people meter era (1988-present) was Nets-Spurs on a Friday night in 2003 (8.06M).

is tonight's game will get any interest

 

Metta Peace at the game.
Pacers in 5

 

Do you still do the Mark Williams trade if his physicals show he will have a Andrew Bynum-like knee?

 

I never thought I’d say this, but CP3 would be a good guy to have on a vet minimum contract. Now excuse me while I go throw up

 

Trade for a center and trade for a mid to low first, and draft another center.

Example: Trade Kleiber, Vincent, Knecht, 2031 1st, 2030 swap, 2028 swap to BKN for Claxton, #26 and #27.

#26: Yanic Konan Niederhauser, C: Most athletic big in the draft. 37 inch max vertical. Second best standing veryical in entire draft, i believe 33.5 inches. Also i think was one of the best in lane agility and sprint. Great lob threat, size, rim-prptection, and hands.

#27: Walter Clayton Jr, PG: Only 6-3, but probably a top 5 shooter also has a 37 inch max vertical. 4th in lane agility in draft combjne and alao was up their in sprint. Also a very good defender. 3 and D point guard. Could be our long term POA defender. We have been missing speed and athleticism in the backcourt. This player provides it, only he is also a lights out shooter and winner.

There are also other possible options available:

UTA has #5, #21, and #43
OKC has #15 and #24
ORL has #16 and #25
ATL has #13 and #22
WAS has #6, #18, and #40
BKN also has #8, #19, and #36

 

I think if we are able to trade into the first round and draft these two specific players, it will go along way for us.

 

Three team trade:

LAL: Saric, #16, #24, and #44

OKC: #55, 2031 Lakers 1st, and 2031 Nuggets 1st

DEN: Knecht, 2026 Thunder 2nd

 

lol, we're giving up knecht and a first to take on saric's corpse, two low picks in a weak draft and a mid second rounder?

people need to understand that if knecht played for the jazz last year, he's probably ROY and averaged 15+ ppg. i get that he couldn't defend and fell out of the playoff rotation, but whoever's taken at 16 is like, 95% likely to be worse than knecht, just based on draft history. half the first round will be out of the league within 4 years, and those odds start skyrocketing when you exit the early lotto, tbh.

like, are we certain kon knueppel is going to be better than knecht? because he might go top 5 this year.

finally, almost no draft pick we make is likely to help us next year, and we need help next year. we can't spend trade assets right now on draft picks, imo. i'll be mad if we do.

 

I see us with similar regrets as Caruso when we trade Knecht. Kid can put the ball in the basket, which is a nice skill to have.

 

For me this is an overpay, using all our assets on one position. I think Yanic is a 2nd rounder and late in the first I’d rather gamble on a high upside wing like Drake Powell (like we did with Max) or Rasheer Fleming or one of the big Euro guards like Hugo Gonzales or Ben Saraf.

I like Clayton but so few rookies make an impact their first year, so I think whoever we draft we should be thinking post LeBron. I agree with abeer, we need a POA guard for next year that can play in the playoffs.

Others have mentioned NAW (but we might need to let DFS walk) or even DDV. I’m also curious about Isaac Okoro since Cavs might be looking to cut costs. He makes 10mil and was a high lotto pick from the 2020 draft. That draft has produced a lot of good rotation players like A Nesmith, P achiuwa, nick Richards, Jayden Mcdaniels, isaiah Stewart, obi toppin, isaiah joe, Cole Anthony, Payton Pritchard and others.

 

We are not trading DK or AR unless its for a starting caliber center end of story