Beverley to Lakers for THT and Stanley Johnson

[Jingled]

Pretty sure a 3 for 1 Westbrook deal is coming .

I hope so. I still wouldn't be surprised to see them send Westbrook to Indiana for Hield and Turner.

 

[Isaiah 1:13]

Please stop with the stupid posts. We drafted 3 star players in a 7 year stretch. Unfortunately Lindsey was a complete moron over the last few years but that doesn't change the fact that there were game changers available with almost everyone of those picks. Hopefully this time around we have better scouting and of course a hell of a lot more bites at the apple.

Smart, Tatum, Brown, Williams….takes an eye for talent which we’ve sorely lacked in the past.

 

[fishonjazz]

View: https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1562641189274152965


View: https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1562641398263738368

I like it. Ainge wins again.

 

[Hearsky]

Please stop with the stupid posts. We drafted 3 star players in a 7 year stretch. Unfortunately Lindsey was a complete moron over the last few years but that doesn't change the fact that there were game changers available with almost everyone of those picks. Hopefully this time around we have better scouting and of course a hell of a lot more bites at the apple.

So, we trust Ainge on evaluating draft talent but not trading for 21 year olds? Got it.

 

[fishonjazz]

THT isn’t good yet

Fixed it for you.
I dont think THT has reached his prime or potential. Will Hardy gonna mold him into a good player.

 

[Shocker00]

I think a Mitchell trade must be close now. I think if they kept DM then they would have kept Bev.

 

[Isaiah 1:13]

I hope so. I still wouldn't be surprised to see them send Westbrook to Indiana for Hield and Turner.

Two firsts and a big buy out opportunity…. how is that remotely better than what New York has on the table?

 

[fishonjazz]

Awesome… if he’s good he gets paid or bails… if he sucks we get to pay him next year to keep sucking. Gotta at least get something for the money aspects.

What about a 3rd option? He is just ok and plays about as good as his contract, we re-sign him, then he blows up.

 

[fishonjazz]

This is giving me Ingles for NAW vibes.

NAW outplayed ingles since the trade.

 

[fishonjazz]

We swap a winning piece with losing pieces so we can set up the tank. Only way I can think of it.

Well ya. I figured everyone understood that.

 

[Jingled]

Two firsts and a big buy out opportunity…. how is that remotely better than what New York has on the table?

What? We're not talking about Donovan to the Lakers for Westbrook...we're talking about sending two or three of or vets like Bogey, Clarkson, Conley, Beasley etc. to the Lakers for Westbrook and hopefully both of their first-round picks. Then we would still send Don to the Knicks.

 

[idiot]

I imagine this makes a Westbrook trade to Utah much less likely.

Or the other way to read it is that it may not have been as likely as we were imagining here.

But I don't know. Jazz still have things Lakers could want if they go off of Westbrook: Bogey, Clarkson/Beasley, Vanderbilt, maybe even Conley though that's less likely with Beverley already there. Who knows (although this is a longshot), maybe they wanted to do Beverley a solid before the other aggregation trades went through and this worked well enough on its own as a straight up deal?