I know it's common sense, but David Locke has always said to look at who the Jazz had previously tried to acquire to predict what their future moves would be. We know for a fact that they were going to get on a plane on July 4 to offer Porter a (presumably) max contract. If anyone's watched the Wizards, I think you can see what a dumpster fire it is. There's like 8 guys in contract years playing selfishly to get paid and I think Porter is a casualty of that, and that he hasn't really regressed that badly. I think he'd be a really nice buy-low candidate, especially if you think the Jazz have zero shot at a max guy in free agency.
But Beal is a guy that I've always really liked and I think he could be like a Ray Allen in Milwaukee type player for us. I think Mitchell is a year, maybe 2, away from playing PG though, so it'd have to be PG by committee. I think they could pull it off though since Ingles and Beal can handle and distribute. I just don't think we have the assets to pull off a trade for Beal. Washington's owner is a cheapskate, so I think the only way it happens is if Utah is the only team willing to take on Mahinmi and they send the maximum amount of cash for a transaction (what is it, 5 million?). Washington is too cheap to fire Scott Brooks.
I just don't know what the hell Washington will do if they trade Porter and/or Beal and keep Wall. Their roster would be trash and I'm sure Wall would be pissed starting a rebuild now.
