Coby White has leveled up again?

[The Box Office]

I'd trade Coby White and Josh Giddey for Nikola Jokic. I'm sure Denver would be tempted considering that their team is in turmoil and Jokic definitely isn't happy right now.

I will never ever believe in anyone who doesn't try on defense, no matter how great they look on offense. The ultimate examples of this are Dominique Wilkins, our very own Nikola Vucevic, Steve Nash, Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan, and Carmelo Anthony.

They can probably win league MVP, but they'll never lead a team to the Finals or win Finals MVP.

[wolffy]

Making tough shots is part of being a good player. Zach was and still is a slightly better scorer across the board. If Coby was a vastly superior scorer, he'd be an All-NBA caliber player.

I disagree Zachs scoring is almost all shot making which isn't bad but he can't finish thru contact, doesn't draw fouls, and takes terrible shots. Coby might not score more but he's still better at it.

But with that said, I'd still predict White to outscore Zach next season.

Coby's shot profile vs Zach's.

Being a good scorer and a good shotmaker go hand in hand. Even now, Zach gets to the rim more than Coby and shoots better on those shots. Coby getting to the line is the only advantage he has over Zach.

I'm really only interested in his stats post trade. Maybe that's too short of a window or maybe they would still look the same. But for as good as a scorer as Zach was, it always seemed like it was just a hot shooting game, a blowout, a bad defense. It was never a big play where he isolated, drove and scored and or drew the foul.

[jnrjr79]

I'd trade Coby White and Josh Giddey for Nikola Jokic. I'm sure Denver would be tempted considering that their team is in turmoil and Jokic definitely isn't happy right now.

I will never ever believe in anyone who doesn't try on defense, no matter how great they look on offense. The ultimate examples of this are Dominique Wilkins, our very own Nikola Vucevic, Steve Nash, Zach LaVine, DeMar DeRozan, and Carmelo Anthony.

They can probably win league MVP, but they'll never lead a team to the Finals or win Finals MVP.

Setting aside whether Denver would entertain trading Jokic at all, this sort of trade could only work for them if they could get off enough other contracts to free up cap space to re-sign Coby after next season. Murray's max kicks in next year at $46M, and given his struggles, I'm not sure anyone would want him on that deal. I'm also not sure anyone wants Porter at $38M/year. Denver is projected to be $66M over the cap next year. In those circumstances, I don't know why you'd trade for White just to see him walk.

Also, to my recollection, you can't add other outbound contracts when doing a sign-and-trade, so I don't think it would be possible to include other players with Giddey, who would need to be re-signed.