Jazz trade John collins

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

This trade is so much better than the Sexton one I almost can’t believe the same front office made both deals.

I’m wondering if the Jazz made a deal around the draft to give the Hornets Sexton for Nurkic in exchange for not trading the 4th pick to Washington. But it’s probably just tinfoil hat theory.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Honestly I think Giddey is the player I would target if we actually wanted to make some noise in RFA and make a team sweat. I really like his potential fit on the Jazz and he has shown fairly consistent improvement as a player year to year.

 

[Basketball Novice]

This seems to be a move to open up cap space, but which RFAs or FAs are we going after? The notable RFAs are Kuminga, Giddey, Cam Thomas, and Grimes. I would want to go after Giddey.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Honestly I think Giddey is the player I would target if we actually wanted to make some noise in RFA and make a team sweat. I really like his potential fit on the Jazz and he has shown fairly consistent improvement as a player year to year.

Clayton JR
Bailey
Giddey
Lauri
Kessler

That's a fun core starting lineup.

 

[Shad]

Did they give one up to acquire Collins in the first place?

Rudy gay and a second

 

[HadAnEffectHere]

This seems to be a move to open up cap space, but which RFAs or FAs are we going after? The notable RFAs are Kuminga, Giddey, Cam Thomas, and Grimes. I would want to go after Giddey.

The goal is to eat a bad contract at the trade deadline to allow a team to dodge the tax or an apron.

The Mavs are almost certainly going to need to dump players to get out of the tax as they have the worst owners in the league so the move is going to be like to absorb Klay to get back some minor asset and then waive Klay.

 

[framer]

The Jazz could have taken on expiring contracts each year instead of doing Collins and Clarkson. Then they would start the offseason with cap space they could then use for a star trade or to take bad salary.

1. You can't just "take on expiring contracts every year." That would require signing players only to 1 year contracts and always trading expirings for other expirings, which is stupid.

2. "Take on bad salary" is not really much of a thing any more. You can do it, but it will mostly net you second rounders, and then your salary cap is shot to hell with bad long term salary that violates your first point.

 

[HadAnEffectHere]

1. You can't just "take on expiring contracts every year." That would require signing players only to 1 year contracts and always trading expirings for other expirings, which is stupid.

2. "Take on bad salary" is not really much of a thing any more. You can do it, but it will mostly net you second rounders, and then your salary cap is shot to hell with bad long term salary that violates your first point.

No your salary cap is not, lol. Teams have gotten a lot of seconds from taking on big expiring money.

Maybe you need to eat long-term money to get a first (like the Nets with MPJ), but that would have still been a better use of the cap space than whatever they were doing with their cap earlier.

 

[framer]

Take on salary dumps with the trade exception and MLE. Fill the coffers with second round picks. No offer sheets in FA. Hold our nose for one year. Go into next offseason with a bunch of cap space and decide what you want to do with it.

Salary Dumps or Caps Space. You can only pick one.

 

[framer]

We are absolutely not keeping Lauri, we're nowhere close and Lauri only has a tiny window left that he could hypothetically defend in the postseason.

We are, in fact, absolutely keeping Lauri. And we should.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

Now do the Lauri trade. The only logical next step.

Only problem is we probably have to add an unprotected first just to move him unless he returns to form for a deadline move.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Salary Dumps or Caps Space. You can only pick one.

No... Salary dumps of one year contracts... then next year you have cap space. I chose both thank you.