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Trading Kirilenko

NotDeadYet

NotDeadYet

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Since the Jazz greatly value lineup stability, I seriously doubt we trade Kirilenko due to the number of lineup changes already forced upon us by free agency, but here is a trade to ponder that does work and saves us some $$$. Both are in the last year of their contracts.
According to ESPN trade machine, as of Aug. 17 this would be a valid straight-up trade:
https://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=2dly8xd
This might interest Sacramento as they just drafted 2 bigs and already have Carl Landry and Jason Thompson. Our lineup would then be:
PG - Williams, Price, (I like Ryan Thompson > Sundiatta myself)
SG - Bell, Jeffers, Hayward(R), Miles
SF - Miles, Hayward(R), Evans(R)
PF - Jefferson, Millsap
C - Dalembert, Okur, Jefferson, Fesenko
 
Dalembert is overrated and slow as hell.

Dalembert/Jefferson/Okur would be like watching 3 sloths.

Pass.
 
Pass.

Dalembert peaked two years ago. He's slow, a poor passer, overrated on D, and is also incredibly inconsistent from game to game - he's like the second coming of Ostertag. I think we'd be better served giving Fes court time.
 
That's not even close to a good trade idea. I'll re-iterate what others have already said: 1) Dalembert is terrible. 2) Doing such a trade would leave us EXTREMELY thin on the wings. If we were going to do a trade like this, we would have to have done it a month or so ago, when we could have had a chance to replace AK with someone like Matt Barnes. And in that case, the financial relief that this trade scenario gave us would be nullified by the new addition.

So anyway...No. Absolutely not.
 
Too bad we don't play GS every night. It's like the Jazz are the freaking Globetrotters.

As far as keeping AK, his expiring contract should either be:

1. Allowed to expire for salary relief, because he is very integral (and yes, overpaid) team player when healthy, or:
2. Traded (probably around the deadline) only if a desperate team is willing to give up nice assets to relieve their own incompetence in payroll management.
 
Good observations. As I said, the Jazz would never do this. Just curious what response I'd get. IMO, having already lost 2 starters (Boozer and Matthews) and Okur at best starting the season with limited minutes, we'll be scrambling to regain good team cohesion which is necessary for our success. By not re-signing Boozer we pretty much ensured AK would stay right here.
Another point is people get awed by the Lakers' length, which is impressive, but what makes them doubly tough to deal with is the mobility of those big guys. Gasol is very smart and very agile, easily maneuvering into a position to his advantage against large, slower opponents. Just throwing length at them doesn't work...
 
I am fine with keeping AK all season. In fact I think it would be great if they resigned him for a few more years. Of course no need to mention that his contract amount needs to be about 1/3 of what he's getting paid now.
 
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