Kyrie requests Trade before deadline

Breaking: Brooklyn Nets All-Star Kyrie Irving has requested a trade, league sources tell
@TheAthletic

@Stadium
. The franchise has been informed that Irving prefers to move on ahead of the Feb. 9 trade deadline or will leave in free agency in July.



https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/st...Eurs9f6jcZ6miA

Patiently waiting for KD's request

Not strange since they didnt get extension done. I wonder if nets will have fire sale even though they are 4th right now. Probably not. I think kyrie goes to miami

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Originally Posted by AtlPel

Breaking: Brooklyn Nets All-Star Kyrie Irving has requested a trade, league sources tell
@TheAthletic

@Stadium
. The franchise has been informed that Irving prefers to move on ahead of the Feb. 9 trade deadline or will leave in free agency in July.



https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/st...Eurs9f6jcZ6miA

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Smells like a Lakers move may be coming. Now that they have improved, they may see what they can do to get him. Who else would trade for him?

I swear, if any of you propose to take on that nutcase...

10 game losing streak will have you entertaining things you did not before

I love Kyrie's game. He is a crazy person who also hates Jews. So I'm out on Kyrie and I would assume Griff is as well.

Now, about KD. Before the season, I was in the "don't trade BI for KD" camp. Not so much anymore. Yes, I'm fickle.

I was trying to look at how we could help facilitate in a three team trade. Looking at the teams I think could be interested I think Clippers, Lakers, and Bulls. Knicks are hard to count out of doing insane things but I have a hard time believing they could talk themselves into this when Brunson has been playing so well. It's difficult to find a suiter because the Nets are probably still looking to compete and want players who can contribute now so you have to find a team that's doing well enough to want him for the remainder of this season who is willing to deal with that nutjob, who thinks he's going to contribute more than he takes away, and willing to give up decent players of value for him. So it turning into a three way trade seems unlikely.

I don't think the Nets are going to offload any other players that are helping right away. Simmons is interesting because of his connection to NOLA and his potential but his salary is prohibitive and trying to match it means we're probably sending out players I'd prefer to keep. Plus adding more non-shooters to pair with Zion seems like a bad idea generally.

Clippers and Lakers are interesting because they aren't bad enough to be panicking enough and could easily talk themselves into letting it ride. I also don't know what the Lakers could trade. If I were the Nets I'd rather let Irving walk this summer than pay Westbrook for another year, and that's assuming KD and Westbrook would be fine playing with each other again. Clippers have role players making too much and some deep future picks since they currently owe their soul to OKC but if there isn't a market then maybe the Nets talk themselves into Morris, Norm, and Jackson? Doesn't seem likely or smart to me but who knows? I personally wouldn't have interest in any players the Clips could be offloading besides maybe Kennard unless they lose their mind and want to trade Zubac or Mann but Nets probably want all of those players. Maybe we can get in with a pick or something but I don't think either team are looking to sell.

I think the Bulls are the most interesting of the teams because they clearly are going all in right now and are floundering maybe worse than the Lakers. I could see them panicking into believing Irving can help them and they seem very prone to making rash decisions. I doubt they move Caruso, much to my chagrin, since he's the obvious choice for a player I'd want to fall to us in a three team deal. Going through their roster no one else really stands out to me that would move the needle.

Ultimately the only players I would want the Pels to try and get from a Kyrie trade is from the Nets. Nic Claxton and Royce O'Neal are the only two players I'm really interested in so ultimately I think this is a nothing burger for the Pels unless Kyrie somehow makes it to the Lakers and somehow injects them with the vitality to out-perform.

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Originally Posted by hornetsrebirth

10 game losing streak will have you entertaining things you did not before

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My opinion is to not get swept up in the ebbs and flows. Look at the larger picture. The risk outweighs the reward 100 to 1 here. The cost of Kyrie is players who are performing well right now and if the Nets are smart, probably the ones who will perform better in the future too. It'd probably be something like BI plus Trey. The most likely outcome is that Kyrie alienates his teammates (This is based on nothing except my gut but personality-wise I have a hard time believing CJ would be a fan of Kyrie) and blows up a team that seems to like each other. What's more likely, we are going through a midseason slump and turn it around and come back to 80% of the team that started the year, or that we completely flame out? I think the makeup of the team has enough fight in them to come back more often than not. Making panic trades rarely works out, especially when your team's culture is good and you introduce a toxic player like that.

Then what does Kyrie do this offseason? Do we sign him to a max and hope somehow he doesn't do the same thing he's done to all his last teams with increasing regularity? Do you let him walk for nothing but you just lost BI and Trey for the opportunity cost of one season? Does he ******** off Zion and Zion requests a trade? The opportunity cost is insanely high to start throwing hail marries because our talented, young team is going through a slump.

No.

I wonder if Claxton suddenly becomes available

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Originally Posted by 75saint

I wonder if Claxton suddenly becomes available

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He's only available if the Nets take on the salary of a center that makes so much that they need to shed his very affordable and positive salary or he becomes redundant enough that we can pay them in picks for him. Make a list of teams that may want to trade for Kyrie and see if they have an improvement at center that the Nets would want to take back and makes Claxton redundant and makes so much that they'd want to shed salary or send the pick from Pels to that original team. Super unlikely in my opinion.

Kyrie for cj and a first ky is miles ahead of cj as a guard and would fit into what the nets need

The duke connection from b.i Zion and kyrie
The scoring inside and out would be off the charts
In a city like N.O kyrie can just focus on basketball like he did in Cleveland
It would give Zion more reason to be locked in for a decade because he has someone who will pass the ball in the post instead of chucking shot (cj ………

Automatically puts us back on top of the west long as healthy

I think for picks and cj it’s worth it cjs cool but he’s like a dad on the team I feel kyrie will mess better with young guys similar mindsets just smart enough to keep it to themselves to avoid the ridicule

If he goes to the lakers someway just gone and get ready for them to win another ring and those picks swaps become worthless

CJ can't be traded until after the season.

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Originally Posted by donato

CJ can't be traded until after the season.

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Well we won’t be getting him or kd I dont see any of the other guys being worth it for Brooklyn

Kyrie is probably the last thing this team needs in its locker room. Hard pass.

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Originally Posted by PELICANSFAN

Kyrie is probably the last thing this team needs in its locker room. Hard pass.

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Where do I hit the like button?

Just read an article that says The Lakers and Mavs don’t have the money that Kyrie is looking for. Kyrie wants to get paid and both teams aren’t trying to give him almost 200 million for 4 years.

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Just read an article that says The Lakers and Mavs don’t have the money that Kyrie is looking for. Kyrie wants to get paid and both teams aren’t trying to give him almost 200 million for 4 years.

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I'd laugh so hard if he reject these reasonable offers and ends up playing for the minimum like old mate D. Cousins or better still retires.

from an NBC sports article, a Kyrie trade for every team..........

New Orleans Pelicans

NOP receives: Kyrie Irving

BKN receives: Garrett Temple, Devonte' Graham, Jaxson Hayes, Trey Murphy III, Dyson Daniels

The Pels have one of the best starting fives in the NBA, but it could be even better with Irving in the mix. Would New Orleans be willing to give away young studs in Murphy III and Daniels and clear out much of its depth if it meant landing Kyrie to play alongside C.J. McCollum, Brandon Ingram, Zion Williamson and Jonas Valančiūnas? That would be the best starting lineup in the NBA, hands down. As of this writing, New Orleans has lost 10 straight, so maybe the front office pushes to get this one done.

I don't really want Kyrie. He might be the player the Pels need, but the headaches they don't.
That said, if the Nets would consider Herb instead of Murphy or Daniels in this ridiculous deal, you would have to at least consider it.

If the team ran a lottery to see who had to deal with Kyrie, I'd be tempted to pay a first just to avoid the risk. No way.

Kyrie can throw an accurate Alley oop
Shoot the 3 at a high rate
Mid range automatic
Inside scorer with great penetration
Willing passer
Literally could maximize Zion and b.I and take the load of being a pg off of cj if able to be kept

Kyrie isn’t that big of a problem off of court
Don’t remember him beating anyone or being arrested of anything
Just stated he doesn’t like certain thing about a system

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Originally Posted by Algiersraised

Kyrie can throw an accurate Alley oop
Shoot the 3 at a high rate
Mid range automatic
Inside scorer with great penetration
Willing passer
Literally could maximize Zion and b.I and take the load of being a pg off of cj if able to be kept

Kyrie isn’t that big of a problem off of court
Don’t remember him beating anyone or being arrested of anything
Just stated he doesn’t like certain thing about a system

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He would be a major cancer in a locker room of young players. If you have followed him his entire career, he has been a malcontent for the majority of his career and drawn negative attention to himself consistently. Hard pass.

If I put all NBA players in order of who I would want to see on this team Kyrie is probably one of the bottom 10. He has literally caused chaos on every team he's been on and caused drama every time, been an injury risk, and is currently flirting with antisemitism.

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Just stated he doesn?t like certain thing about a system

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By "certain thing" do you mean things like science and History ?

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Originally Posted by Blattman

By "certain thing" do you mean things like science and History ?

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Science?

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Science?

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Have you missed the whole flat earth and conspiracy theories around vaccination ?
Not even speaking about scientific study about genetics in the Middle East

Kyrie's wacky off court antics aren't as bad as how disruptive he is to the team. Helped get his coach ran off. Ran off James Harden. Has no problem missing a bunch of games whenever for whatever reason. Two weeks ago he was asking for an extension, now he is demanding a trade a week before the deadline when he could just leave at the end of the season and go anywhere. And he is even threatening to sit out the rest of the season if he doesn't get a trade. Its insane never seen anything like this before. He is a great player but he destroys teams.

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Have you missed the whole flat earth and conspiracy theories around vaccination ?
Not even speaking about scientific study about genetics in the Middle East

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You mean that they don't do what the government told us they would do?

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If I put all NBA players in order of who I would want to see on this team Kyrie is probably one of the bottom 10. He has literally caused chaos on every team he's been on and caused drama every time, been an injury risk, and is currently flirting with antisemitism.

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Is a touch beyond flirting imo

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You mean that they don't do what the government told us they would do?

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What does your government have to do with the shape of earth or genetics lineage ?

Kyrie to Dallas

Great time to revisit KD trade:)

My take on any trade right now is do not make a knee-jerk move. Do not trade unless you get the perfect piece that compliments BI/ZION. Kyrie is the least worth it out of all the players we could trade for. The baggage that comes with him is quite frankly appalling. This was a growing season for us with all the injuries. No need to win it all now (we still technically can once everyone gets healthy).

Two things that stand out to me in terms of starters- we need one of either Herb or Trey to take the next step. If they don?t, we look for somebody to relegate them to the bench for the time being (if we are looking for someone at all). We also need a big man to pair with Jonas from the bench.

The losing streak was rough but to be perfectly honest it wasn?t strictly down to lack of talent. This team can hang without starters. It just happened to be a mega tough stretch and morale obviously wasn?t the best after that Nets loss. I do think from that standpoint Willie fell a little short in getting this squad prepared. Hopefully we learn to deal with tougher scenarios from here on.

Glad it's not the Lakers.

the suns tried to trade CP3! whoa

I love Kyrie to Dallas. He is a team-killing cancer. Look at his history. Luka to Miami countdown begins today.

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Is a touch beyond flirting imo

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Yeah, I agree. Just trying to make my point without having to delve too much into something idiots would want to muddy the waters with.