They should draft Walter Clayton, but will probably draft another bricklayer.
2025 Off-Season Trade Ideas Thread
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They should draft Walter Clayton, but will probably draft another bricklayer.
They will sign and trade him. We also don’t have cap space.
YoungJefe
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Isn't he restricted?
Yes.
They will sign and trade him. 80% certainty. That actually works out for us if we want him since we don’t have enough cap to make an offer that they won’t just match.
Not work Drey and Jimmy he doesn’t. But we should look into what that sign and trade looks like for us.
YoungJefe
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Trade some of our vets for him
I’m not a big believer but I think we could do it. If they would take Lauri then that is on my list of how we might trade him.
It’s worth looking into finding a project that we can rehab value on. It’s probably time since we’re in the wilderness for the next year.
YoungJefe
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Not a huge fan either but we desperately need talent with high end potential, plus he's only 22 years old
I wonder if they'd be interested in Clarkson, Sexton, or Collins
HadAnEffectHere
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Kuminga is a strong floor raiser who is poisonous to playoff teams so that seems like the exact player the Jazz would not get.
Kuminga is not going to be a fan of getting DNP-CDs to tank games, he wants to shoot 25 times a night.
Think the Jazz can probably trade up to 3 with like 5, 21, Filipowski, and salary relief, but the Jazz would never do this. Guessing they just stay at 5 as Ainge hates making trades where he feels he's subjectively losing.
Kuminga is not going to be a fan of getting DNP-CDs to tank games, he wants to shoot 25 times a night.
Think the Jazz can probably trade up to 3 with like 5, 21, Filipowski, and salary relief, but the Jazz would never do this. Guessing they just stay at 5 as Ainge hates making trades where he feels he's subjectively losing.
What does this mean? Counts for half for Warriors next years cap or?
If, for example, Kuminga starts at $25M on his new deal that means he only counts as $12.5M outgoing salary (for matching purposes) for the Warriors but counts as $25M incoming for the team receiving Kuminga.
Oh damn thats an annoying apron penalty as it hurts the player by limiting his landing spots (thus impacting S&T contract value) as well as other teams without cap space who would like to go after him.
Not sure I like that one. Too much collateral damage.
David Stern
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I’d sure love to get Grimes out of Philly. I saw it suggested that he is going to get 4 years 100m, I’d sure love to work a S&T where we trade Collins for him
framer
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So there is only one team (other than Warriors) that could give him more than 28 million a year, right? Everyone else could only do double the exception. I'm not high at all on Kuminga, but I would be in at that price.
jom2003
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View: https://youtu.be/EgI5TgKwamQ?si=rmeyvydRooeLbq0W
This guy brings up a pretty good point. This year's draft shows the league why this current lottery system doesn't work. Silver needs a future face of the league so bad yet his lottery system puts both Cooper and Harper in the literal worst situation possible with Mavericks and Spurs.
Spurs doesn't really have a place for Harper in the starting five whereas Mavs don't have anything to build around Cooper for the foreseeable future unless they trade AD ASAP and tank for this upcoming season, which is the last thing Nico and their current owner would do.
So the best way out is for both guys to get traded on draft night and we all know it would be near impossible which begs the question, why are we here in the first place?
So should the league handpick where each player is to go?
jom2003
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No. There's a reason other sports league don't implement the same lottery system as the NBA. Flattening the odds sucks and it shows when the worst team in the NBA from each season has not won a single lottery ever since they implemented the new system in 2019 and ended up with the 5th pick for half of the time. This "rich get richer, poor get poorer" approach is not healthy for the league, the fans or the players going into the draft.
And don't BS me with this "but it punishes tanking". Sixers and spurs absolutely tanked for the last few months of the season and still got rewarded. Why? Some tanking are better than the other?