Clax to MEM in January

[_GH0ST_]

I think Claxton is more expensive than this. He's played over 70 games a season, has a bargain contract and he is still not old.

Clarke and Kennard don't have much value. Aldama is good but not great. Your pick should be unprotected and add few seconds or swaps.

How is 28 Million this year considered a bargain?

I guess it's not just for this year. 27 million this year but he will earn at least 2 million less every year and he is earning 20 million in the last year of his contract lol

[YayBasketball]

Clax to NOP in January. McCullom or Ingram to 3rd team, assets to BKN.

[QMemphis]

My dream summer was adding Bridges and Claxton. Now post Edey pick no way we go this direction. Claxton and Edey can’t play together that severely limits what we would want to do both financially and on the court.

[psman2]

My dream summer was adding Bridges and Claxton. Now post Edey pick no way we go this direction. Claxton and Edey can’t play together that severely limits what we would want to do both financially and on the court.

If Edey shows he has a 3pt shoot, then they could. Clax is a good guarding the perimeter and switching. But we don't need an expensive backup big, zero chance we allocate our cap like this.

[DonaldSanders]

If Claxton has this little value (which I don't think he does) then I'd love to see my GSW jump in and 1-up this trade. No chance Brooklyn does this.

[JKiddy]

There are a few issues here:

A) The Nets have zero motivation to take 40 cents on a dollar now as they are rebuilding within now before FA signings and drafting players for many upcoming seasons

B) Claxton wants to stay in BK

C) BK wants to build around Claxton

The only thing I can see them considering is if Memphis had Edey and multiple firsts IF Claxton and BK are no longer a match (doubtful as of October 2024).

[Paradise]

I think Claxton is more expensive than this. He's played over 70 games a season, has a bargain contract and he is still not old.

Clarke and Kennard don't have much value. Aldama is good but not great. Your pick should be unprotected and add few seconds or swaps.

How is 28 Million this year considered a bargain?

Lol Are you aware of anything about the Nets?

[Colbinii]

I think Claxton is more expensive than this. He's played over 70 games a season, has a bargain contract and he is still not old.

Clarke and Kennard don't have much value. Aldama is good but not great. Your pick should be unprotected and add few seconds or swaps.

How is 28 Million this year considered a bargain?

Lol Are you aware of anything about the Nets?

Yeah. I'm also aware of the going rate for Centers.

[Chuck Everett]

Claxton's just a guy and would get bodied in the West. Doesn't help Memphis. He can't guard beefier centers.

[BarbaGrizz]

This deal would´ve make sense for Memphis if we didn´t drafted Edey

[jbk1234]

This isn't that far off the going rate for guys like Claxton (Centers who fall somewhere between 15-20 ranking position-wise). Look at what Claxton's contemporaries have gone for over the past 5 years. Poeltl, Capela, Allen, Adams. The average value these guys are returning is somewhere between the 15th-20th pick. Maybe MEM needs to throw in a 2nd but the value isn't that far off based on recent history. The C market is not strong right now because almost everyone has a "solid" center and the one's that don't are the bottom feeders that don't really have a need for one. If MEM is willing to wait until JAN that could also drive the price down as someone like Poeltl could shake loose and the asking price wouldn't be that high (non-lotto 1st). Maybe they take a flier on RW3 for cheap. I personally don't believe the market for non top 10 C's is all that strong. I will concede that BKN holding Claxton makes sense as his contract is declining and that could up his value for a trade for next off-season (or even the one after). I just don't know if it's ever going to get into guaranteed lotto pick territory.

Poeltl went for a lotto pick.

Can’t imagine why BKN would prefer that handful of mediocrity to Claxton.

And all those other guys went for a pick in the 20's. There were also extenuating circumstances in that Poeltl trade: it was a bad trade by the Raptors and the Raptors were not expecting to give up a pick that high (I would also bet SAS was not expecting to get a top 10 pick out of that trade). If BKN is hoping to repeat that then I say good luck. I also don't know why BKN needs Claxton when they are going to be bad for the next 2-3 years. I'm not saying they should take the MEM deal but it's not far off from what I'd expect they'd actually get. They should ask for more but I don't think they'll get much more, especially from MEM who I assumed drafted Edey to be a starter in the near future. If I were BKN I would target NOP and try to take back McCollum and the surplus assets that would come from that type of deal.

I mean the Cavs ate some bad salary mid season in addition to the first they gave up to get Allen. The former really mattered as there were very few teams in a position to do so. Also, while the pick belonged to the Bucks, it wasn't protected.