Barnes also has an expiring contract and is a better rebounder/defender than Bojan. He's like the perfect candidate to get moved to a contender at the deadline.
Here's what I think should happen:
Jazz Trade: Gobert, Bogdonovic
Kings Trade: Barnes, Holmes, Harkless, Holiday, #4 pick
Bulls Trade: Vucevic, P. Williams, Coby White, #18
Jazz Receive: Barnes, Holmes P. Williams, J. Holiday, Coby White, #4 pick [take Jaden Ivey]
Bulls Receive: Gobert, Harkless
Kings Receive: Vucevic, Bogdanovic, #18 pick
Jazz get a decent defensive center, high upside PF in Williams, get more athletic on perimeter defense with Barnes + White, high upside pick w/ Ivey.
Bulls: Receive Gobert + strong defensive PF in Harkless, without having to give future assets
Kings: Get two veterans that will fit well and help push for playoffs and trade down from 4 to 18.
[works on espn trade machine]
Kings do this, why?Here's what I think should happen:
Jazz Trade: Gobert, Bogdonovic
Kings Trade: Barnes, Holmes, Harkless, Holiday, #4 pick
Bulls Trade: Vucevic, P. Williams, Coby White, #18
Jazz Receive: Barnes, Holmes P. Williams, J. Holiday, Coby White, #4 pick [take Jaden Ivey]
Bulls Receive: Gobert, Harkless
Kings Receive: Vucevic, Bogdanovic, #18 pick
Jazz get a decent defensive center, high upside PF in Williams, get more athletic on perimeter defense with Barnes + White, high upside pick w/ Ivey.
Bulls: Receive Gobert + strong defensive PF in Harkless, without having to give future assets
Kings: Get two veterans that will fit well and help push for playoffs and trade down from 4 to 18.
[works on espn trade machine]
Jazz receive: OG Anunoby, Gary Trent Jr, Precious Achiuwa
Raptors receive: Rudy Gobert, Royce O'Neale
Waive Juancho and we'd be $10M under the luxury tax, which would give us the full MLE, right?
The Raptors can make the trade by removing their cap hold on any of De Colo, Lin, Meeks, Thompson, Bonga, etc.Sadly that trade doesn’t work by about 144k.
Well if you say so. All I know is that I’ll be disappointed as hell if that’s all we get for our 3 time DPOY! In his prime and still trending upwards and never injured unlike OG. Nurse gets his second championship with Rudy next year I’ll be exhuming this corpse to do an autopsy!I mean OG and Trent Jr are good players lmao. They’re exactly what we need.