Utah/GSW

[NW]

Not sure I’d pay the price, but might get close.

I believe doing this deal would position them to let CP3 walk, possibly re-up Klay at a lower amount and still get under the lux tax to use the MLE on another piece.

Lauri’s contract next year is a healthy amount of the appeal. Would likely depend on what the secondary moves are

[AingesBurner]

Tony Jones has already said Utah wouldn’t consider this so we will pass.

Wouldn't consider it like hang up the phone and not even have this as a basis of a negotiation? Has there been a better offer that you've seen?

Hang up phone and the offers are lowballs.

[Onus]

I just don't know what Lauri can do to Warriors.

If Warriors make this trade, we are looking at Curry / Klay(?) / Wiggins / Lauri / Green with GPII, TJD, and Looney(?) on the bench. Even if we ignore a gigantic void at the bench and assume Klay is resigned, I just don't see the lineup as a contender. Klay fell off the cliff, don't know how good Wiggins can be, Green is regressing, and even Curry is showing a sign of slowing down. The core is about to collapse, and we need a lot of young players to reinforce it. But this trade would gut out almost every young player, and we are looking at the 5th-6th seed at best. For Curry's resume, anything short of the championship won't matter whether the Warriors miss PO or get eliminated at the conference final (ex: Lebron), and we won't be close to the championship.

If we don't lose two first-rounders, I could see the Warriors making this gamble. If things don't go well, the Warriors will start rebuilding from zero, and if this goes well, the Warriors will reinforce the roster by trading picks. But without picks, I just don't see how Warriors can fill the roster with quality backup PG, SG, and SF, or delay the rebuilding process till 2019 season.

This was my plan I put in the warriors sub.

I’d think I’d want Gary Harris, a pg and a big wing. Damn that would be tough. 52 would have to be a contributor day 1. I'd think I'd want Dunn and Batum. Get Cam Spencer and Jalen Bridges or Isaiah Crawford or Anton Watson or Enrique Freeman.

Curry/ Dunn
Harris/Spencer/Q
Wiggins/Bridges/GP2/Gui
Dray/Batum
Lauri/TJD/Garuba or Goga

That might actually work.

I'd probably want to keep either Moody or Podz or a 1st, but we could make it work. The only way this really works though is if we did this during day 2 of the draft. That way we would have our pick of udfa and whomever we want in the 2nd rd as we would be able to guarantee a 4 year contract. Then when FA starts we would be able to promise a huge role to Harris/Batum.