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Woj: Jazz agree to 3-team trade with Lakers and Timberwolves

Elizah Huge said:
We traded an old point guard who’s due 24.3M in salary next year and two bench players for an expiring contract and a top-4 protected 2027 first from a team that is expected to be terrible around that time.
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Yeah but it's top 4 protected.. so it's highly likely they'll get the pick anyway?
 
Big middle finger to Conley on the way out, huh? He wanted to stay with the Jazz. And if traded, go to a contender. Clippers were his top choice. Instead it’s off to ****ing Minnesota for Mike. And for nothing really.

I’m honestly feeling like I’d rather we just spread the dudes around and got a bunch of seconds and maybe a couple project players or whatever. The pick that conveys a couple of leap years from now, that was so coveted because it would be low, is protected, so loses basically all of its value. Awful locker rooms vibe trade too.

Bleh, just can’t get myself excited about this at all. Hope the lotto balls bless us.
 
ONE LOVE said:
Yeah but it's top 4 protected.. so it's highly likely they'll get the pick anyway?
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No way. The odds are way more in our favor for it to convey. It just slightly takes the upside off of it. At absolute worst case scenario they have a 52.1% chance of keeping the pick which means they ended up with a top-3 worse record that year.
 
Elizah Huge said:
We traded an old point guard who’s due 24.3M in salary next year and two bench players for an expiring contract and a top-4 protected 2027 first from a team that is expected to be terrible around that time.
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3 players who have been having a good year. On friendly deals. +1 guy who's been good when given minutes. Also, losing 2nd rounds picks. Not a good trade. It's meh at best.

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Bawse Dawg said:
Big middle finger to Conley on the way out, huh? He wanted to stay with the Jazz. And if traded, go to a contender. Clippers were his top choice. Instead it’s off to ****ing Minnesota for Mike. And for nothing really.

I’m honestly feeling like I’d rather we just spread the dudes around and got a bunch of seconds and maybe a couple project players or whatever. The pick that conveys a couple of leap years from now, that was so coveted because it would be low, is protected, so loses basically all of its value. Awful locker rooms vibe trade too.

Bleh, just can’t get myself excited about this at all. Hope the lotto balls bless us.
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I mean, Minnesota is a great opportunity for him. It's hardly a middle finger. I think Minnesota is a much better on court fit for Conley than the Clippers. Clippers just play iso ball.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
I mean, Minnesota is a great opportunity for him. It's hardly a middle finger. I think Minnesota is a much better on court fit for Conley than the Clippers. Clippers just play iso ball.
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Minnesota is also better for him immediately this year than staying on the team would be.
 
It's going to be hilarious if the Lakers finish the season 18-9 and end up with 41 wins, missing the playoffs. Hopefully, the Twolves and Lakers will play one another in the 9 v. 10 play-in game.
 
Elizah Huge said:
No way. The odds are way more in our favor for it to convey. It just slightly takes the upside off of it. At absolute worst case scenario they have a 52.1% chance of keeping the pick which means they ended up with a top-3 worse record that year.
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You basically have to pray that the Lakers isn't going to be really good or really bad in 2027 but then it's just a mid pick that's very much like the one that Knicks just gave Portland in the Hart deal.

I mean Knicks isn't gonna become a contender all of a sudden so worst case scenario Portland gets a pick in the late teens/early 20s or 4 second rounders in case Knicks fall into the lottery. The Lakers could become a contender by 2027, however, so the floor of the Lakers pick is only a pick in the late 20s or just one second rounder in case they get into the top 4.
 
I’ve been thinking about how this all went down. In the summer, we traded Royce for the Nets/76ers pick, then Gobert for the Wolves haul, and then Don for a semi haul plus Sexton and Markkanen.

It feels like Danny has been struggling to find a winning deal since then. I honestly thought that we could get more for Beverley and Bogey when those trades went down, and now this. I’d be happy with this if they had a pick swap this year and without the protections on the ‘27 pick, but that’s not even close to what the Jazz got.
 
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