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2025 Off-Season Trade Ideas Thread

Handlogten's Heros said:
I think Philly is in a weird spot because if Embiid is hurt you are rebuilding... in which case Maxey, McCain, #3 is better than giving up the asset to dump PG and get better now. I expect they may trade back to collect more assets but everything is on hold because of Embiid.

PG is also very likely to have a better year than he did last year unless he is washed. Right now I think they are trading him at washed value if they moved him. May as well ride it out and see if they can get one or both guys healthier.

I think they will only likely move completely out of the lotto if they are going after Giannis.
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It's the East though. You could screw around just swapping Lauri for PG and bumble your way into a 4 seed even if Embiid is broken.

I'm fully expecting half of the East to tank next year.
 
HadAnEffectHere said:

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Attendees at the NBA Draft Combine were speculating a lot about the Jazz trading Collins, Sexton, and multiple picks for Trae Young after how bad the draft lottery went for the Jazz, but Lowe thinks it's ******** and stupid.
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Well the is officially my least favorite trade proposal so far.

I get that tanking isn't guaranteed as we saw this lottery, but I want nothing to to with half measures where we trade picks this summer. A Lauri/Trae core with the youngins wouldn't even be favored to make the playin in the West next year, probably not even top 12. We are set up to be the only disaster class team in the West right now.
 
Jaanipoeg said:
Well the is officially my least favorite trade proposal so far.

I get that tanking isn't guaranteed as we saw this lottery, but I want nothing to to with half measures where we trade picks this summer. A Lauri/Trae core with the youngins wouldn't even be favored to make the playin in the West next year, probably not even top 12. We are set up to be the only disaster class team in the West right now.
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Agreed, Trae Young automatically guarantees that you will not have an elite team. So why would you ever spend assets for that?
 
Here’s one I’ve been kicking around in my head for the past week or so. Three team trade - Jazz, Spurs, Bucks
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Spurs get Lauri Markkanen and the draft rights to Gabriele Procida.

Bucks get Collin Sexton, Harrison Barnes, Jordan Clarkson and Julian Champagnie.

Jazz get Damian Lillard, Keldon Johnson and more draft capital. From the Spurs, the Jazz move up from 2 to 5, and get 14 (they keep 21.) They also move up from 53 to 38 and get their 2026 2nd round pick back. From the Bucks, they get pick swaps in 2030 (after Portland) and 2031 (top 1 protected).

Jazz draft Dylan Harper, Carter Bryant, Hansen Yang and a couple draft and stash or 2-way players at 38 & 43. Spurs get Lauri (for the value of two first round picks and two 2nd round picks) and still draft one of TreVJKon. Bucks get 4 rotation players to replace Lillard this year at essentially the same salary and at potentially no cost (depending on how the swaps turn out.)
 
Yeah, Lauri has nowhere close to this value.

He had a BPM of -0.3 last year and a troubling back injury and is now on a max contract. He needs to have an elite stretch of 20+ games to restore value. He played like an MLE player last year and is getting paid more than 3x that.
 
Coach Ellis said:
Here’s one I’ve been kicking around in my head for the past week or so. Three team trade - Jazz, Spurs, Bucks
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Spurs get Lauri Markkanen and the draft rights to Gabriele Procida.

Bucks get Collin Sexton, Harrison Barnes, Jordan Clarkson and Julian Champagnie.

Jazz get Damian Lillard, Keldon Johnson and more draft capital. From the Spurs, the Jazz move up from 2 to 5, and get 14 (they keep 21.) They also move up from 53 to 38 and get their 2026 2nd round pick back. From the Bucks, they get pick swaps in 2030 (after Portland) and 2031 (top 1 protected).

Jazz draft Dylan Harper, Carter Bryant, Hansen Yang and a couple draft and stash or 2-way players at 38 & 43. Spurs get Lauri (for the value of two first round picks and two 2nd round picks) and still draft one of TreVJKon. Bucks get 4 rotation players to replace Lillard this year at essentially the same salary and at potentially no cost (depending on how the swaps turn out.)
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Pretty good trade. Spurs would be a top 6 team in the west and on their way to contention. Bucks get Giannis more help and a deeper team to make another run. Jazz get good rebuild pieces and likely another top 5 pick next year.
 
Coach Ellis said:
Here’s one I’ve been kicking around in my head for the past week or so. Three team trade - Jazz, Spurs, Bucks
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Spurs get Lauri Markkanen and the draft rights to Gabriele Procida.

Bucks get Collin Sexton, Harrison Barnes, Jordan Clarkson and Julian Champagnie.

Jazz get Damian Lillard, Keldon Johnson and more draft capital. From the Spurs, the Jazz move up from 2 to 5, and get 14 (they keep 21.) They also move up from 53 to 38 and get their 2026 2nd round pick back. From the Bucks, they get pick swaps in 2030 (after Portland) and 2031 (top 1 protected).

Jazz draft Dylan Harper, Carter Bryant, Hansen Yang and a couple draft and stash or 2-way players at 38 & 43. Spurs get Lauri (for the value of two first round picks and two 2nd round picks) and still draft one of TreVJKon. Bucks get 4 rotation players to replace Lillard this year at essentially the same salary and at potentially no cost (depending on how the swaps turn out.)
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The Bucks are the hardest one up gauge for me, it all comes down to how much it would take to convince Giannis that he can win there. I really think Giannis would prefer to win in Milwaukee, but he wants to win first and foremost.

I personally couldn't be sold that Collin Sexton as his second best player next year, with Barnes and Kuzma and an old Lopez is enough. But if management is able to, and it gets us to #2 and management loves Harper then I'd be down
 
The idea of Damian coming to Utah makes zero sense to me from both a Jazz perspective or a Dame perspective.
 
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