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A bunch of teams and guys who I would be happy with being the main guy:
Boston Celtics: Tatum
NYK: Barrett
Atlanta: John Collins or Trae Young, either would be fine
Raptors: Pascal Siakam
Pacers: Myles Turner
Chicago Bulls: Lauri Markkanen
Cleveland Cavaliers: Colin Sexton
Sacramento Kings: De'Aaron Fox
Dallas Mavericks: Luka Doncic
Memphis Grizzlies: Ja Morant
Can we just stop pretending that because some of don't like Ingram or Ball, we're somehow refusing to even consider possibilities. Look! There's 10 teams! 33% of the entire league! Obviously all of those players would have to have picks and secondary players attached, but those are all young, promising, talented players who could easily form the centrepiece of an AD trade.
It's not just Boston or NYC: just because the Lakers suck doesn't mean everyone else does too.
Basketball.
My ideal Boston trade:
Boston: AD, Etwaun Moore, & Solo Hill
Pels: Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Marcus Smart, Robert Williams III, Suns pick #6, & Boston’s pick #22
Suns: Terry Rozier, Boston’s picks 14 & 20, Boston’s pick #51, & our pick #57.
Phoenix trades the 6th pick cause the Cavs take their target Darius Garland at 5. We take Jarrett Culver at 6 and Naz Reid or the best big at 22.
C: Okafor, Williams
PF: Zion, Reid
SF: Tatum, Brown
SG: Jrue, Culver
PG: Smart, F Jax
I could seriously get down with that depth chart.
Tatum is likely a great fit next to a Jrue and Zion. The CELTICS would be incredible even if they didn’t have smart, Tatum and those picks. Rozier at pg instead of Kyrie plus Horford, Hayward and AD, Jaylen Brown and so on would be a dominant team regardless if Kyrie stayed.
I don’t want to get my hopes up but if we managed to do this trade I’d be very happy:
Celtics get AD
PELS get Tatum, Baynes, Smart, 14th, 20th picks and Memphis future top 6th protected 2021 1st.
Then draft Sekou D the international SF/PF if he’s available with the 14th pick. Or that shooter from Kentucky https://youtu.be/CjeKpJGayDc
Basically this.
Griffin said an AD trade should net you:
1) A star player, or a player with potential to be a star.
2) A very good, strong roleplayer
3) Picks.
Remember that. Whenever you suggest a trade, ask yourself, does it have those ingredients? Or is your trade ''One solid roleplay, two benchwarmers, and we give up picks''?
If it's the latter, don't bother.
I've got a question. Everyone seems so intent on putting together a complete, solid, talented starting five IMMEDIATELY, as in this season. Other than Ja Morant (who we can't get), there are no other really, really good PGs in this draft, but supposedly several next year. Wouldn't the smart thing to do be to get the best PLAYERS we can NOW from the Davis trade and the draft, and then see what we have? Elfrid can handle the PG position this season, and we look for our long term PG in NEXT years draft.
I just feel like some people are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, they're so desperate to fill all 5 starting positions with All-Star talent in the next six weeks.
I agree. That's why I don't have any real interest in acquiring the #6 pick so we can get Garland. Garland isn't that great of a prospect. He can shoot, sure, but he's not what I see as being the PG of the future.
I like the Knicks trade so much (it's the one I've been most behind since February) because it gives us two shots at solid players moving forward at two positions, SF and C, but mostly because it gives us so much potential future draft capital. Could potentially get 3 FRPs from two different teams on it. That would let us go forward, drafting for fit in the future. Could get the Knicks pick next year too if we do the deal on draft night, and have our pick and their pick to try and get a guard for the future.
Multiple bites at the cherry in every draft is always a dream scenario.
My only issues with that trade: Naz Reid sucks, and why aren't we getting the Memphis pick?
Its the LSU bias we have on the board. Everyone thinks because he played at LSU he must be great. What would people have said last season if I had suggested we sign Cam Reynolds of Tulane? They would have laughed at me. Yet he's doing well enough with the TWolves that they signed him to a multi-year contract. And he CAN shoot.
Yeah, I guess. Again, something I don't really get as someone who's removed from the internal sports world of the state.
Naz Reid is not good. It feels weird to say this, cause obviously almost nobody fits this definition at an NBA level, but he's kinda fat. He had like 14% body fat at the combine or something, which is more than 5% more than anyone else in the entire thing. He's 6'9.5'', which is a little undersized for a center, and he is a center cause he lacks the skillset to really play down. His wingspan is big, at 7'3, but it's not any bigger than other late-first round big men this year like Mfiondu Kabengele, or Nicolas Claxton, or Jontay Porter, who are all taller and all have wingspans around 7'3 as well.
He wasn't particularly efficient, he wasn't a fantastic shooter, he wasn't a great rim protector, his PER was the lowest of all the names I mentioned, he had the least WS/40, the worst net rating, by far the lowest BPM, and that's despite the second highest usage rate.
For me, if I'm picking a big man late in the first or in the early second round, I'm picking Mfiondu Kabengele, Nicolas Claxton, or Jontay Porter, probably in that order. Naz Reid can go undrafted.
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