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Trade Rumors Involving the Jazz

Nah… his appeal is that he’s a sports guy that does sports guy things. This is a fan board where we can go wild. It’s weirder to not consider every path this team can take.
Isn’t the idea of a rebuild to get stars and this rebuild accidentally gave us one while initiating the rebuild? So what is there to talk about in regards to building the team using Lauri?
 
How are you arguing this. Yes, we traded our to top players in favor of a rebuild. We luck into an all nba caliber player and what? We going to trade him and start over AGAIN!! One year later?? We’d be the laughingstock of the NBA. Star players don’t exactly grow on trees. We were gifted a franchise player to jump start our rebuild and have assets to add a star or several really good players to add to Markkanen and Kessler. There is zero reason to talk trading Lauri unless a Booker, or Giannis is involved.

Actually during the trade deadline actual sports media on Twitter we’re talking about a hypothetical Markkanen to the Kings trade for Murray and picks. The overwhelming consensus was if Ainge turned a throw in from the Mitchell trade into even more assets it would be god-tier ****.

Portland fans are split on Markkanen for 3 let alone plus more. Around the league he isn’t as highly thought of as on here. People want to see if he can sustain the year he had and see if it’s real.
 
It’s ok though the same clowns who called me and idiot and a dumb*** etc for talking about Gobert trades still don’t get it.
 
It’s not… it happens all the time… a notable super fan of a EC finals team is wondering if trading Brown for #3 is something. It’s natural for fans and humans to consider what-ifs.
There are rumors that Brown doesn’t even want to play for Boston. So that needs to be explored. Talking about dumping Markkanen serves basically no purpose unless you’re upgrading Markkanen.
 
There are rumors that Brown doesn’t even want to play for Boston. So that needs to be explored. Talking about dumping Markkanen serves basically no purpose unless you’re upgrading Markkanen.

Markkanen is going to get a max contract soon and currently we don’t have the roster around him to contend. We will be on his timeline very shortly. That would be the main reason to do it.
 
Markkanen is going to get a max contract soon and currently we don’t have the roster around him to contend. We will be on his timeline very shortly. That would be the main reason to do it.
We have draft picks coming out that our asses can’t stop from exploding out. We have plenty of resources to expand this team.
 
Ainge doesn't want a long rebuild. .
No one in their right mind wants a long rebuild. The goal is to win games, not accumulate assets. Trading Lauri is ridiculous unless you are getting great proven talent and that isnt going to happen. If it takes more than one or two years to be legit you have to question the logic in trading two all stars instead of trading just one of them. WIN games and get to the playoffs!
 
No one in their right mind wants a long rebuild. The goal is to win games, not accumulate assets. Trading Lauri is ridiculous unless you are getting great proven talent and that isnt going to happen. If it takes more than one or two years to be legit you have to question the logic in trading two all stars instead of trading just one of them. WIN games and get to the playoffs!
Think the new CBA makes long rebuilds less team friendly as well.
 
How are you arguing this. Yes, we traded our to top players in favor of a rebuild. We luck into an all nba caliber player and what? We going to trade him and start over AGAIN!! One year later?? We’d be the laughingstock of the NBA. Star players don’t exactly grow on trees. We were gifted a franchise player to jump start our rebuild and have assets to add a star or several really good players to add to Markkanen and Kessler. There is zero reason to talk trading Lauri unless a Booker, or Giannis is involved.
The NBA media would cover it for 15 minutes until Lebron or Wemby did something. It wouldn't be a thing.

I know the whole "get your players on one timeline thing" hasn't been super fruitful... but its partly a planning thing. We can overpay for a second star or draft a second star. If we don't hit this draft... well it will be Lauri Walker and stuff. Then Lauri's salary goes to $50M and a good chunk of our financial flexibility goes out the window.

The whole idea is #3 and Simmons for Lauri is close to a fair deal... if they find OG, Mikal, etc. aren't available and get desperate and throw in two future picks on top... I get that we have a lot of draft picks already... but a full reset might be the way to go. They should not and likely do not offer that.
 
No, that’s not what the argument was. I was a ****ing idiot for even suggesting we should trade him. He was getting traded regardless of the package.
Pre-mavs series I was saying we should consider a blow it the hell up trade. You don't want to just trade Rudy and be at Don's mercy. Lauri the convo is different because I think he'd stay for 7-10 years.

I think the tipping point is Scoot, Simons, and a future unprotected pick - if they go over you have to say yes. If that is the offer you have to consider it but could rationalize passing on the deal. They should not offer what it would take... but Minny/Cleveland shouldn't have either.
 
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