Trade Rumors Involving the Jazz

[Handlogten's Heros]

You have 3 years of Donovan under team control, $45M in cap space, and 3 1st round picks next year. Not to mention a ton of future draft assets and expiring deals with guys like JC/Conley. If that's the best package on the table you simply hold onto him and try again later.

Late firsts… per your logic. Don is under team control sure… so is KD… you apparently have no idea how the nba works cuz if a player says they want out… they generally get it. We are 12 months away from having extension convos… when those go south you risk losing him for less… plus the year you wasted… plus the good players you didn’t trade for draft capital. He’s a depreciating asset… as time ticks on that deal you are more likely to get less… I’d resolve it in the offseason… Miami… NY… Brooklyn… whoever.

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Look at the superstars we have/had, none of those guys were acquired by us bottoming out.

And zero titles…

 

[Handlogten's Heros]

Back to ignore…

 

[YoungJefe]

Late firsts… per your logic. Don is under team control sure… so is KD… you apparently have no idea how the nba works cuz if a player says they want out… they generally get it. We are 12 months away from having extension convos… when those go south you risk losing him for less… plus the year you wasted… plus the good players you didn’t trade for draft capital. He’s a depreciating asset… as time ticks on that deal you are more likely to get less… I’d resolve it in the offseason… Miami… NY… Brooklyn… whoever.

When did KD get traded? I must have missed it. When George, Davis, and Harden literally just forced their way out to their preferred teams they all got back monster trade hauls. The Knicks just essentially traded away two lottery picks to sign Jalen Brunson, finding #1 scoring options at age 25 that have proven for a half decade they can be the guy on one of the best teams in the league aren't easy to come by.

 

[YoungJefe]

Back to ignore…

Can't accept that there's potentially a significantly better package than one built around Herro/Duncan at a super max price point based on a hypothetical situation you built in your head, lol.

DA isn't going to rush to move Donovan, the Nets aren't rushing to move KD. You don't trade off your best players for mediocre returns because you're scared of 3 years from now.

 

[YoungJefe]

And zero titles…

I must have missed the Hawks, Grizzles, 76ers, and Mavericks championships that came as a result of bottoming out. My apologies.

 

[YoungJefe]

But you also think the Lakers would give us multiple 1st round picks to move off of Westbrook and commit $14/22M to Mike Conley for an additional season.

 

[YoungJefe]

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Rudy the goat haul

 

[NUMBERICA]

Look at the superstars we have/had, none of those guys were acquired by us bottoming out.

None of them except maybe Malone were tier 1 talents.

 

[Cool Runnings]

View: https://twitter.com/TopBallCoverage/status/1544888912295800832


Rudy the goat haul

I think Timberwolves are wanting to push all their chips in for a chance at a title. It was mentioned on NBA today that another west conf team that doesn’t have any draft picks asked about Kyrie. D’Angelo for Kyrie as the base of the deal works.

 

[YoungJefe]

None of them except maybe Malone were tier 1 talents.

There are like a handful or two at most of those guys in the league at any given time and currently only like half of them were top picks that tanking teams selected.

 

[Mikle12]

Teams

Minnesota is going to be a contender, possibly the best team in the West, according to JF after they leveraged their draft capital for the foreseeable future to make a deal with us. I'd guess that'll drive Don's value up. A was

Alot of teams will play small ball against minnesota to exploit the 2 bigs KAT and gobert who can’t defend the 3 point line
And edwards apparently a bad defender as well

 

[YoungJefe]

Teams

Alot of teams will play small ball against minnesota to exploit the 2 bigs KAT and gobert who can’t defend the 3 point line
And edwards apparently a bad defender as well

Edwards, KAT, and DLo are all below average to terrible defenders.

 

[kcgar]

When did KD get traded? I must have missed it. When George, Davis, and Harden literally just forced their way out to their preferred teams they all got back monster trade hauls. The Knicks just essentially traded away two lottery picks to sign Jalen Brunson, finding #1 scoring options at age 25 that have proven for a half decade they can be the guy on one of the best teams in the league aren't easy to come by.

It’s pretty obvious that Donovan is not in those stars league when it comes to trade value. He is a 6’0 one way star. That doesn’t get the haul that those others get.

 

[YoungJefe]

It’s pretty obvious that Donovan is not in those stars league when it comes to trade value. He is a 6’0 one way star. That doesn’t get the haul that those others get.

Donovan must have benjamin button syndrome, he gets smaller every day. If a team questions his value, point to him being the #1 option on the best team in basketball last season, being the #1 option for the #1 offense in basketball this season, or his 28 ppg playoff scoring average. The Knicks just parted ways with two lottery picks to clear cap space for Jalen Brunson. I'm fairly confident that someone will want a 25 year old 26/5/5 player.

Harden out of shape having a terrible year at age 32 just landed the Nets Simmons, Curry, Drummond and multiple 1sts, lol. Forgot when he was a lock down defender.

Brooklyn has been extremely reluctant to move KD but one player they inquired about was Donovan. Interesting since teams don't valeu him.

 

[Mikle12]

Edwards, KAT, and DLo are all below average to terrible defenders.

All it’s going to take is one bad season or lots of injuries to them and our haul of 1st rounders will be a masterstroke of a trade

 

[YoungJefe]

The Miami Heat are another team that has been linked to Mitchell but they are also limited in the quality of their best offer. A package including Kyle Lowry, Tyler Herro, Nikola Jovic, and Gabe Vincent would probably be involved, but they are limited in trading a 2023 first-round pick and another one in 2028 or 2029.

 

[Elizah Huge]

The Miami Heat are another team that has been linked to Mitchell but they are also limited in the quality of their best offer. A package including Kyle Lowry, Tyler Herro, Nikola Jovic, and Gabe Vincent would probably be involved, but they are limited in trading a 2023 first-round pick and another one in 2028 or 2029.

They can easily trade their 23/27/29 1sts by getting rid of the protections on the 2025 1st they sent to OKC. They can also send 1st round pick swaps in 24/26/28.

 

[Hearsky]

It’s pretty obvious that Donovan is not in those stars league when it comes to trade value. He is a 6’0 one way star. That doesn’t get the haul that those others get.

This. Someone please identify one thing DM does above average other than volume scoring? Which he does at a relatively unspectacular efficiency.

 

[YoungJefe]

They can easily trade their 23/27/29 1sts by getting rid of the protections on the 2025 1st they sent to OKC. They can also send 1st round pick swaps in 24/26/28.

That's from hoopshype. It's unprotected in 2026 either way for OKC, can't they just defer like the Nets did with the 76ers pick this season. So regardless the best package they can offer is a 23 1st (in a year we have 3 already), 27 first if they get OKC to agree to it, and 2029 1st along with Herro, Duncan, and other filler.