Kanter traded to OKC

[bigmike]

Hopefully this German bloke can ball and we can 100% zone in on D'Angelo.

PG - Exum
SG - D'Angelo
SF - Hayward
PF - Favors
C - Rudy

Hooooo baby.

 

[silesian]

Kendrick Perkins is plainly worse than Kanter.

Did you miss the part about the Jazz buying out Perkins? His skills are completely irrelevant to this transaction.

 

[Diamond77]

We gifted Kanter to a direct rival! What a scandalous trade!

 

[green]

That is probably the best trade in Jazz history. It got us two NBA finals.

I'll take the under.

The key word being "could". Is it that level today? Nope.

If this trade got us a top 5 pick and a max player this summer, then it could be that big of a trade.

 

[Flc]

Also, Kanter was shooting the most FG's per minute of any Jazz player. Those shots can now go to Hayward and Favors - even a few 'oops to Gobert. I DO expect our offensive numbers to fall a bit. But the defensive ratings should rise.

But really what this comes down to is we traded an expiring contract of a player who didn't want to be here for a rookie on a 4-yr deal. And made room in the starting lineup for a player who CLEARLY deserves to start. Jazz NEEDED to make the move to start Gobert. Kanter was NOT going to accept a backup role as Trey has done. Or maybe Trey hasn't. But at least he's been good about it and didn't pitch a fit.

And expanded our cap space as well, which is nothing to sneeze at, given that it's likely the cap increase will not be smoothed. That means next year is the very best opportunity for the next 3-4 years for us to acquire a talented free agent.

 

[colton]

All true; but Utah has no one to pick up the 14 points Kanter brought. The rest of the season is going to be ugly

You realize there will be people getting his minutes, right? It's not like they will be playing 4 on 5. And when players get more minutes they tend to score more.

 

[Flc]

Agreed, but guessing DL could consider Jackson skipping a step. Pay Jackson vs. picking who you want in FA plus getting another first rounder and dumping Novak's contract. I'm guessing that was the internal debate going down and the Jazz ultimately went with FA and picks over Reggie.

They could have had Reggie no doubt.

Yes. Likely felt that cutting into Exum (and Burke's... heh) development was a bad call.

 

[Tony]

Yeah...I'm not a fan of this trade with the info that we know.

It's a hell of a lot better than getting nothing for him in the off-season.

 

[kabenac]

So the Thunder Writer says jones and lamb were NOT traded. Thunders roster stands at 16 players with Novak.

Something seems off.

Royce Young
The Thunder have 16 players on the roster, so it seems likely Steve Novak would be bought out.

Royce Young
As @kpelton noted, you have to have a roster spot to add Novak into, so maybe Ish Smith got waived?

 

[colton]

Three teams in this trade. Two teams got real players with proven NBA pedigrees. The third team is the Jazz.

The Jazz do too, it's just delayed. They get cap space which they can use to sign a real player this summer.

 

[addictionary]

Shoutout to Hack who made fun of me saying Kanter to OKC didn't make any sense.

NBA GM's agree with Cy.

Me too.

 

[mhindy]

We gifted Kanter to a direct rival! What a scandalous trade!

Calling us a 'rival' of OKC right now is demeaning to the thunder.