Woj is reporting a bunch of nothing.
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I was thinking the same thing as Kevin O'Connor. The situations are much different, but they feel the same. Back in the KG deal, Ainge kept plugging away, trying to make both the Wolves and Garnett happy, until he finally found the combination by trading for Ray Allen.
The Anthony Davis sweepstakes has shades of the Kevin Garnett deal 12 years ago with Lakers and Celtics pushing for him. KG's agent Andy Miller even said KG won't play in Boston. At one point it seemed KG would go to Phoenix. Far different circumstances now but it feels familiar. https://t.co/xzFBTY5BI1
— Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) June 12, 2019
I think one thing that makes the (potential) Boston trade so appealing is the potential for flipping those assets as well.
Obviously some people have argued that this is also true with the Lakers stuff, but I don't see it being quite so easy, nor so profitable. We've already heard that Phoenix and Chicago wouldn't take Ball for #6 or #7 in this draft. Maybe that's true, maybe it isn't, but there's definitely doubt there.
Whereas if we got Tatum, Brown, Smart, and all the picks from Boston (obviously that's optimistic, sure) then I don't think it would be difficult to flip, say, Brown + #14 for something else, if we really wanted to.
I wouldn't want to, for what it's worth, I think Brown is really good, but still.
Basketball.
...That's not really what that sounds like at all.
It doesn't sound like Griff is 'settling'' for anything. Sounds like he's telling LA to flip that #4 for something better because Ainge is giving legit competition.
And of course, we all know that if Ainge wanted to, he could end this today by offering everything.
Here we go. We're starting to name, names now https://t.co/1aX9ao1sCl
— Shamit Dua (@FearTheBrown) June 12, 2019
So there we go. LA is offering INgram, Ball, and #4, and Griff is saying ''not good enough, more.''
Unless Ingram absolutely ignites next year, his trade value is not going to be as high as Brown's or Tatum's, imo.
That was kinda my whole point: the Boston assets contain trade value right now, today. The Lakers players and assets would have to prove something before they held that same value.
Griff wants a third team.
Remember how back in February, LA offered Ingram, Ball, Kuzma, Zubac, and multiple firsts, and Griff tweeted that New Orleans could get ''far more'' than that?
What's happening here isn't a surprise. Griff wants a haul. LA can't offer it straight up. They'll need a third team.
Can't imagine Griff is too happy with a certain news story today if we are at the naming names part of the trade ordeal
— Shamit Dua (@FearTheBrown) June 12, 2019
Newb here who had to sign up just to say KEEP THE FREAKING LAKERS 4TH PICK.
I don't want to ship that out. I want to keep it and draft DARIUS GARLAND.
Garland + Zion is a playoff team in 2 years.
Doesn't sound that way to me. Obviously we don't know what Boston has or hasn't offered, but it sounds like LA are aware that they don't have the assets on their own, and rather than embarrassing themselves again by naming everything and every pick just to be rejected, they're offering key parts and then acquiescing to the demand for a third team.
Welcome to the forum!
Lots of question marks surrounding Garland. Only played 5 games, isn't a fantastic passer, can't/won't defend, not massively athletic.
His one real skill is that he can shoot. There are even question marks about that though: his guide hand doesn't do much, and his release point is pretty low. Obviously that could change in the NBA, and he has the touch to make it work, but I don't know if his ceiling is as high as you suggest.
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