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Does Lauri Get Traded?

Does Lauri Get Dealt Before The Season Starts?

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Thee Idiotic Minivan K said:
The Jazz don’t want to trade him but if a team floats some insane offer the Jazz will take it because a big godfather offer would set them up big which would set them up to get a couple stars and be able to easily build around them. As it is now it might actually be harder to do so.
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Isn't this the best case scenario though? We have an all-star that fits any team construction and no need to trade him unless things get ridiculous. Meanwhile we have 8 youngsters with promise (I'm counting Kessler and Lofton) who will need to get some rotation time. The only other proven NBA players we have are Clarkson, Collins, and Sexton. Clarkson and Collins are definitely on the Block. We play in the Western Conference.

We are either in contention for a top 5 pick or one or more of the young guys steps forward and we aren't. That is a win. Or we play poorly and have a chance at Lauri plus a top 5 pick. Or we trade Lauri for something truly ridiculous and get that top 5 pick.

The only bad thing that could happen is to panic sell Lauri and that isn't happening, because Danny cares about not doing that more than anyone probably ever.
 
David Stern said:
Trading those two for Lavine and a pick might actually be good business, especially if we load manage the **** out of Lavine this year
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Hell, I'm ok with attaching an asset to them to get rid of them. We have plenty of picks and young dudes. I would like to see them play at some point. And if dumping Collins and Clarkson also help us get a better pick next season then that's just the cherry on top

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David Stern said:
Yeah the lack of noise around Clarkson and Collins being traded so far this offseason is concerning and tells me that nobody wants them
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These two are, at worst, trade ballast. If we needed to include salary in a trade, it is good to have one of these guys because otherwise we would need to give up long term pieces and a lot of them because they are on rookie contracts.

I know that we could just "use our capspace" but we are going to use a large chunk of that to extend Lauri. Even if the players don't fit, the capology is sound. Plus, playing Collins and Clarkson isn't really winning us games (Although I am curious to see what Collins paired with Collier looks like. . .)
 
framer said:
Isn't this the best case scenario though? We have an all-star that fits any team construction and no need to trade him unless things get ridiculous. Meanwhile we have 8 youngsters with promise (I'm counting Kessler and Lofton) who will need to get some rotation time. The only other proven NBA players we have are Clarkson, Collins, and Sexton. Clarkson and Collins are definitely on the Block. We play in the Western Conference.

We are either in contention for a top 5 pick or one or more of the young guys steps forward and we aren't. That is a win. Or we play poorly and have a chance at Lauri plus a top 5 pick. Or we trade Lauri for something truly ridiculous and get that top 5 pick.

The only bad thing that could happen is to panic sell Lauri and that isn't happening, because Danny cares about not doing that more than anyone probably ever.
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Key thing for me is you talking about all the young guys with a lot of promise but no superstars. That’s what we need. I feel like we have guys that will be at or around what Markkanen are. But championships aren’t built around that. But the top 5-10 players. Trading Markkanen will bring us closer to that reality
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I think 2025 will have at least 6 guys and maybe 7 that would have been consensus #1 picks in the draft we just had. 1-5 would leave me legitimately torn on who we should take. We just can’t mess around.
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For me Ace Bailey would be my top choice. I think he has legit Tracy McGrady type upside as a scorer.
 
sip said:
For me Ace Bailey would be my top choice. I think he has legit Tracy McGrady type upside as a scorer.
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Flagg, Ace, Traore I think will have a legit shot at going #1… maybe Edgecomb if Olympics are an indicator… Harper and Hugo I feel pretty good about already… want to see Malauch first before making big judgements. It’s loaded up top.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Flagg, Ace, Traore I think will have a legit shot at going #1… maybe Edgecomb if Olympics are an indicator… Harper and Hugo I feel pretty good about already… want to see Malauch first before making big judgements. It’s loaded up top.
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No boozer twins in the 25 draft?
I thought I saw something about them being in that draft. Was a long time ago though so maybe things changed

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