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Donovan Mitchell unlikely to ask for trade per ESPN’s Brian Windhorst

Handlogten's Heros said:
I just disagree... I would want more. We all look at the Heat picks as clearly late firsts... which is why you could get them plus the swaps unprotected because they think its all late picks. Since Lebron left the Heat have missed the playoffs 3 times in 8 years... Jimmy is 33 with a ton of miles and a huge contract... Kyle is 37... If they have Bam and Don they are likely middle of the pack Eastern Conference playoff team when healthy... but injuries happen... if they don't have cap space and picks to retool then you may very well end up with a couple lotto picks in that bunch.

Whenever you have unprotected picks the team giving them has no incentive to lose... so they will generally be at worst late lotto mid lotto types. Not sure the pick quality of the Heat picks is >>>>>> Knicks picks... even though NY is a dumpster fire mostly. I also don't think they are sending out unprotected picks at this point.
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The Heat have picked top 10 twice in 20 seasons and the Knicks have been a lottery team in 15/20 seasons and the Heat have been a lottery team in 5/20 seasons.

I'm betting against Brunson/Don/Barrett/Randle with James Dolan 100/100 times before I bet against Donovan/Bam with Pat Riley. But I mean a 20+ year sample size isn't much.
 
Also, what if things aren't working... we trading Donovan at the trade deadline... like two weeks before the AS game?
 
If we tank and have the 11th best record then Memphis gets the pick. The Jazz have to have the 10th or worst record to make sense. We can't be that bad with Mitchell on the team. I think we are going to keep Mitchell until next year and Danny is going to do several different minor trades to make the team completive while trying to build up draft capital. I don't think can be done easily, but that is the road this team will take.
 
whatthe said:
If we tank and have the 11th best record then Memphis gets the pick. The Jazz have to have the 10th or worst record to make sense. We can't be that bad with Mitchell on the team. I think we are going to keep Mitchell until next year and Danny is going to do several different minor trades to make the team completive while trying to build up draft capital. I don't think can be done easily, but that is the road this team will take.
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Memphis doesn't get our pick under any circumstance.
 
whatthe said:
If we tank and have the 11th best record then Memphis gets the pick. The Jazz have to have the 10th or worst record to make sense. We can't be that bad with Mitchell on the team. I think we are going to keep Mitchell until next year and Danny is going to do several different minor trades to make the team completive while trying to build up draft capital. I don't think can be done easily, but that is the road this team will take.
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Memphis has gotten their pick(s), and the 1-10 protected pick to OKC is in '24.
 
TheStormofWar said:
We just traded our two best defensive players for picks and you want to go with that?

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I would rank the defenders as follows:

Rudy Gobert
Vanderbilt
Beverley
Royce

People are looking past it, but our perimeter defense just got a lot better. And Beasley isn't that far off from Royce if not even.

Once again - comes down to coaching. And who else we add at center.
 
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