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Trade Rumors Involving the Jazz

Elizah Huge said:
Local ESPN Sacramento radio hosts talked about the Kings going all-in for Lauri recently. This was just speculation on their part but I thought it was interesting. They mentioned taking the protections off of the 2024 first they owe Atlanta to open up some future picks for trade. Their hypotheticals were basically 2/3 firsts for Lauri or Keegan Murray plus extra for him. They said Lauri would be a perfect fit for their team and next to Sabonis.
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LOL.

Other than a legit superstar type of deal (not happening), the only reason to trade Lauri would be the commencement of an absolutely brutal, scorched-earth, multiyear tank where you have no idea at all when the better times are supposed to arrive and where he'd be very unlikely to sign an extension anyway (and would be on the wrong timeline). Good luck selling that to this fanbase.

As for FRP's.... it's good to have something of a war chest, but there's a point where you have too many picks. You have to start consolidating them, and that's not necessarily easy in this league, as we've seen.
 
Elizah Huge said:
You’d pass on that? I don’t even think they’d offer that much.
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Because they can offer only two picks I’d imagine there would be a bunch of naked pick swaps.

Keegan is fine. I guess it’d help our current draft pick… but yeah I might just pass… I think you are right… I think they’d likely not offer that much. I’d have to think on it a bit harder.
 
According to Marc Stein, the Clippers have interest in Conley. The Jazz, Hawks and Cavs have recently discussed a trade that would send Collins to the Jazz and Beasley to the Cavs, but the Hawks are reluctant to add any picks to the deal. Stein says the league believes the Jazz will be sellers before the deadline.
 
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Jingled said:
According to Marc Stein the Clippers have interest in Conley. The Jazz, Hawks and Cavs have recently discussed a trade that would send Collins to the Jazz and Beasley to the Cavs, but Hawks are reluctant to add any picks to the deal. Stein says the league believes the Jazz will be sellers before the deadline.
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That’s spicy. The clips is kinda hard to do but would make sense with a third team.
 
I feel like regardless of where you want the jazz to head a trade is needed. This isn't a deadline to stand still at. We need to get better, get worse, get younger, get more balanced and/or a few other things. Just don't pay to get rid of players. If there is no market for Conley or Gay just keep them for now.
 
Ron Mexico said:
I feel like regardless of where you want the jazz to head a trade is needed. This isn't a deadline to stand still at. We need to get better, get worse, get younger, get more balanced and/or a few other things. Just don't pay to get rid of players. If there is no market for Conley or Gay just keep them for now.
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Thankffully I don't think we have to worry about that anymore now that Ainge is in charge.
 
Jingled said:
According to Marc Stein, the Clippers have interest in Conley. The Jazz, Hawks and Cavs have recently discussed a trade that would send Collins to the Jazz and Beasley to the Cavs, but the Hawks are reluctant to add any picks to the deal. Stein says the league believes the Jazz will be sellers before the deadline.
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Now Cavs are in that deal? At least Collins discussions are in good spirit and Atlanta is not receiving too much interest.. otherwise they would just call this a waste of time and hang up the phone. Obviously our FO is very determined to get this done. Wonder if DA will come down from that 1 FRP to something like swap rights? Already came down from the "multiple FRP" requirement we set when PHX was involved.

Obviously the league thinks we are sellers... but this Collins deal looks more like we are buying. We are driving it, this is the 5th iteration of it and we are giving away 2 players who are worth more draft assets than we get in return. If we were sellers.. we would be taking in offers for those 2 and selling them to the highest bidder. They are maybe our 2 most coveted player assets out of those that we are willing to give away.
 
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