Cavs aquire Lauri Markkanen via S&T - 4 years/ 67 million

[Taikuri]

Yes if Lauri has good or great game once again then Finland will win.
The key question for Estonia i that who's guarding Lauri
because even Israel had big troubles to STOP Lauri's scoring in 1st half ( Lauri secored 20 points ) of the Finland vs Israel game
but in the second half Israel changed their defense and it worked well and Lauri scored only 8 points ( 4 per quarter ) more.

They need to get Lauri in foul trouble early. I'll remind the non-Finnish guys that outside of the NBA there's just 5 personal fouls per game allowed, but of course also shorter quarters as well. I see the Estonians flopping a lot and hoping for some offensive fouls on Lauri. It's up to the referees on how well they will bite on those.

[PaKii94]

Well that didn't last long

[JonFromVA]

Will be sorry to see Lauri go, see you guys on the Jazz forum (assuming Ainge holds on to him).

[Taikuri]

Will be sorry to see Lauri go, see you guys on the Jazz forum (assuming Ainge holds on to him).

I'm pretty shocked about this, but Utah Jazz could be a good fit for him. Cleveland certainly was a good fit for Lauri though, so it's a shame.

The crazy part about this is that tomorrow is Finland's European championship tournament opener vs Israel. It might mess up Lauri's head a bit lol. It's a rematch vs Israel, who Finland beat a week ago in World Cup qualifier.

Too bad about Lauri wanting to play in the playoffs lol. When Jazz becomes a playoff team again, Lauri will probably be sent away to some bottom team again lol. On the other hand, at least Lauri will be fresh in the World Cup where Finland secured it's spot already, when Lauri doesn't need to do playoffs deep into the summer.