2025 Off-Season Trade Ideas Thread
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Durant deal doesn't really set the market for anything since Durant himself is influencing where he is going
Ok, I missed by a few hours.
baka98
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Sources: Suns trading Durant to Rockets
The Suns have agreed to trade Kevin Durant to the Rockets for Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, the No. 10 pick in the draft and five second-round picks, sources told ESPN.
Thee Jazz Fan
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Pretty big return for a guy in his mid 30’s but I’m having a hard time trying to decide who won and lost this trade. I almost want to say they both won and lost lol
David Stern
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View: https://x.com/Gambo987/status/1936838776128758084
I’d guess that Gambo is saying this to give the Suns some sort of leverage? It doesn’t seem like they want Green. I’d definitely take him for Collins
Coach Ellis
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Suns won, even though they’re not a great fit for Green. Sometimes you just have to take the best deal you can get and move forward.
Would the Suns do Beal/10 for Collins/Sexton?
Another trade idea with teh Suns:
Allen/Martin/10 for Collins/21.
Allen/Martin/10 for Collins/21.
So, it will be a little bit of a standoff....but am I incorrect in saying that Beal is just going to say no to every single trade and get waived/bought out? If I'm him, I'm saying no to every deal and only giving back an amount of money that I can re-coup on a minimum contract. Then he can pretty much pick anywhere he wants to go on a minimum deal, get paid the same, and he won't damage his new team. In what scenario should Beal say "yes" to a trade where he could just get bought out and sign there anyways? PHX only counter to this behavior would be to send him home and pay him.
View: https://x.com/KevinOConnorNBA/status/1936884770484507111
View: https://x.com/KevinOConnorNBA/status/1936884770484507111
Still insane to think Beal got a max and a no-trade clause. Probably one of the worst contracts given in NBA history.
Coach Ellis
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Now that the Durant trade is completed, I really wonder if Lauri becomes a priority for some of the teams that missed out.
A good trade doesn’t have a loser.
Dont think so. Durant was considered mid cost due to his age/contract where as I still think Utah is looking to make out like bandits on a Lauri deal.
David Stern
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The Suns are gonna buy out $110m?! I don’t believe that
Must be a real locker-room cancer.
Yeah...this type of deal isn't going to happen again. Maybe the way they get out of it is if they trade him to another team like UTA, but Beal only says yes to the deal bc UTA agrees to immediately waive/buy him out and he gets to go wherever he wants. I guess that could be worth it? PHX would have to pay us a lot to do that IMO. It's worse than Lillard for us because Lillard can remain idle/be traded again whereas Beal would be straight dead cap for two years in a row.
Cap doesn't really matter to us this summer. We would have to move a lot of guys to make a play. It would cook our cap space plans next summer, but is that the worst thing ever? Like are we going to get more value out of that space than say, the 10th of this draft? I think your trade make sense. Sexton+Collins (maybe Clarkson too?) for #10 and also ask PHX for every other pick they could trade.
Trading for Beal and insta waiving him is worse than trading for Lillard contract/cap wise, but PHX would have more to offer us. If we're being honest, the 1 year deal for Lillard is not worth much as cool of a story as that would be.
We cook our cap space for two summers but we get everything the Suns have left. I actually kinda love this.
We cook our cap space for two summers but we get everything the Suns have left. I actually kinda love this.