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2025 Off-Season Trade Ideas Thread

Basketball Novice said:
With all this in mind, do you think the Suggs contract was an overpay? I believe it is 30 million per.
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It's an ehh deal that would be pretty bad if Franz had gotten his supermax, but Franz getting injured last year was a huge break for the Magic and saved them $8m per year on Franz's deal, so their not ideal contract for Suggs is made up for by Franz's great contract.

Suggs' contract is fine if he shoots 37% ish from three and is around 100 TS+ and stays healthy, but he has struggled to do those things so far in his career. We'll see.

I don't think he has net surplus on his deal and is a neutral value player whereas Garland is positive value.
 
HadAnEffectHere said:
It's an ehh deal that would be pretty bad if Franz had gotten his supermax, but Franz getting injured last year was a huge break for the Magic and saved them $8m per year on Franz's deal, so their not ideal contract for Suggs is made up for by Franz's great contract.

Suggs' contract is fine if he shoots 37% ish from three and is around 100 TS+ and stays healthy, but he has struggled to do those things so far in his career. We'll see.

I don't think he has net surplus on his deal and is a neutral value player whereas Garland is positive value.
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If Mobley and Don are their franchise players they need guys around them that fit. Garland is a nice RS player but has been injured and/or awful in the playoffs. This year he had as many turnovers as assists in that Indiana series and shot 17% on 3's. He was also hunted by the Pacer guards. They won a ton of RS games but they aren't winning many playoff series with a midget backcourt. They can resign Jerome and just drafted Tyson last year to take some of the ball handling load. Cavs desperately need a Suggs/Herb Jones defensive archetype to get stops in the playoffs. Maybe Suggs isn't the answer but should probably do something about the fit on that team especially now that they are in the 2nd apron and will have limited ways to improve moving forward.
 
oldtimer said:
Damion Lillard's contract is a franchise killer. He's old, he's now coming off a major injury and his contract is like 56 million a year. Please god no.
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Actually, if the Jazz do decide to tank one more year he’s a perfect fit. He can sit all next season recovering (for essentially the cost of expiring contracts) and then he either returns to form and they trade him, or he doesn’t and they let him walk as an expiring contract. I’m totally fine with the Jazz making a move for Dame - as long as they get some sort of decent asset back for doing so?
 
Megadoo1 said:

View: https://x.com/jweinbachnba/status/1931378537325269329?s=61&t=5x3vadM2-QgdcTb1VKPOjw
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Is this guy a serious reporter or some sort of a conjurer? This is a horrible reporting if it is a report and it is even worse speculation if it's conjecture of some sort. "Among teams"... "that could"... "check in" on "Markkanen's availability"... Not sure if the Jazz will entertain it.

In other words this whole tweet can be summarized as "any NBA team might or might not have interest in Markkanen and the Jazz might or might not have interest in trading him". Well thanks for the info. That's real valuable insight, Mr. Weinbach.
 
Coach Ellis said:
Actually, if the Jazz do decide to tank one more year he’s a perfect fit. He can sit all next season recovering (for essentially the cost of expiring contracts) and then he either returns to form and they trade him, or he doesn’t and they let him walk as an expiring contract. I’m totally fine with the Jazz making a move for Dame - as long as they get some sort of decent asset back for doing so?
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His contract hand cuffs you if you are serious about making other moves to actually win games. If you are sure you want to be crappy for two years and run the risk of not being able to unload him then go for it.
 
oldtimer said:
Damion Lillard's contract is a franchise killer. He's old, he's now coming off a major injury and his contract is like 56 million a year. Please god no.
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It’s not at all lol. Runs for two years when and only dents the cap space in one. You can also move it in a deal as an expiring if you are completing a mega trade. The asset killer is letting Collins and Sexton lead us to 32 wins and losing a top 8 pick next year… that cap space won’t be all that helpful if we don’t have any long term building blocks.
 
gomretat said:
His contract hand cuffs you if you are serious about making other moves to actually win games.
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This is a feature, not a bug. He May or may not be able to reach anything resembling his prior level of play but landing an asset and assisting our pick next year is already enough value to justify a deal.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
It’s not at all lol. Runs for two years when and only dents the cap space in one. You can also move it in a deal as an expiring if you are completing a mega trade. The asset killer is letting Collins and Sexton lead us to 32 wins and losing a top 8 pick next year… that cap space won’t be all that helpful if we don’t have any long term building blocks.
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Handlogten's Heros said:
This is a feature, not a bug. He May or may not be able to reach anything resembling his prior level of play but landing an asset and assisting our pick next year is already enough value to justify a deal.
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Its a bit absurd to factor being terrible in as the positive value for trading for Lillard. I don't like how we treat sucking as some long term plan for success.

If we don't get the fabled 1A surefire superstar in next years draft, what's the plan? Suck again? How long? How many years do you plan to waste looking for the pipedream surefire star guy?

Lets start the work of building the team, start finding undervalued guys in free agency and in the trade market, continue to develop our guys. We can do this organically without sinking multiple seasons on purpose.

Sucking and hoping for lottery luck is not a good plan. Might as well get on with it and actually start building the team. Losing out on a first rounder is not the end of the world. We already have tons of young guys on the roster and more coming in the future. Being terrible for another year would be awful for the development of our younger players.
 
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