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1. Will Lauri Markkanen be traded?
If yes, where to?

2. Will Zach LaVine be traded?
If yes, where to?

3. Will Brandon Ingram be traded?
If yes, where to?

4. What will the Miami Heat do?

5. What will the Los Angeles Lakers do?

6. What other starter quality or better players will switch teams before the season?

7. What other transaction-based storylines interest you that remain?

1. Warriors
2. Lakers
3. Detroit
4. Trade for Jerami Grant
5. Trade for Lavine
6. Bruce Brown
7. Where will Tyus Jones sign?(Detroit )

Lauri to GS
LaVine stays
Ingram stays
Heat add one undrafted guy who turns out to be the next Tyler Herro/Terry Rozier
Lakers add Tyus Jones somehow
Nurkic is swapped for a different center

NYG wrote:1. Will Lauri Markkanen be traded?
If yes, where to?
GSW
2. Will Zach LaVine be traded?
If yes, where to? LAL

3. Will Brandon Ingram be traded?
If yes, where to? Cleveland in a 3 way trade with Orl and NOP

4. What will the Miami Heat do? Trade for a big? Not J.Grant. I think Jermai goes to SAC.

5. What will the Los Angeles Lakers do? Trade for Lavine and Kessler

6. What other starter quality or better players will switch teams before the season? J.Randle and watch out KAT.

7. What other transaction-based storylines interest you that remain?

As a Bucks fan so we trade B. Lopez and get younger and more defensive

NYG wrote:1. Will Lauri Markkanen be traded?
If yes, where to?

2. Will Zach LaVine be traded?
If yes, where to?

3. Will Brandon Ingram be traded?
If yes, where to?

4. What will the Miami Heat do?

5. What will the Los Angeles Lakers do?

6. What other starter quality or better players will switch teams before the season?

7. What other transaction-based storylines interest you that remain?

1. Yes. Warriors.
2. No. Not in this 2nd-Apron-environment. I really hope he doesn't go to LA. But Jeanie dumb, though.
3. Yes. Cavs. With Garland going to third team.
4. Heat will find someone no knows about, barely make the play-in and still manage to upset a top 2 seed in the first round.
5. Lakers will do nothing. Maybe pay someone to absorb Hayes+Reddish+?? in order to clear up tax-MLE and spend it on Lonnie Walker, Robert Covington or Gordon Hayward.
6. DeAndre Ayton.
7. Washington Wizards. They suck. Should rebuild and have a bunch of usefull veterans that can be moved.

1) 60% R&E with Utah. 10% sick of tanking, refused R&E offer, traded to GS. 30% sick of tanking refused R&E offer, traded to mystery team.

2) No market until back on-court and effective. Starts season with Chicago

3) No market at what NO finds acceptable. Stays with NO

4) Miami does very little. Minor depth moves at most

5) LAL probably don't do much. Maybe Kessler or Sharpe trade to get center option. Maybe Tyus Jones shakes out somehow.

6) I'm not expecting big movement. Center spot most likely deals. Several teams have extra while some have big needs. Sharpe and Kessler who don't require much salary matching feel more likely to be dealt than expensive guys.

7)I'd expect things to be pretty quiet, leaving several teams frustrated and with some awkward fits.

NYG wrote:1. Will Lauri Markkanen be traded?
If yes, where to?

I do not think Lauri gets traded. Unless I'm mistaken, he seems willing to be in Utah, so I see no reason they should trade him.

NYG wrote:2. Will Zach LaVine be traded?
If yes, where to?

I also don't think Zach gets traded, and furthermore, I think he plays well this year and teams end up kicking themselves over how cheap they could have had him. Far from a perfect player, but one of the very best at putting the ball in the basket.

NYG wrote:3. Will Brandon Ingram be traded?
If yes, where to?

I do think Ingram gets traded. I think it will be a big trade that comes out of nowhere and shocks people. Something like Ingram and McCollum to Miami for Herro, Rozier, and Robinson

NYG wrote:4. What will the Miami Heat do?

See above - I think they're ultimately the team that makes a move for Ingram.

NYG wrote:5. What will the Los Angeles Lakers do?

I think they make a big move before the season starts that basically signals a full homerun swing. LeBron's 40, why play it safe? Swing for the fences.

LAL in: Nikola Vucevic, Lonzo Ball, Torrey Craig, Onuralp Bitim, and Chris Duarte

CHI in: D'Angelo Russell, Rui Hachimura, Gabe Vincent, Jaxson Hayes, and Christian Wood

Lakers roll the dice on Balls health (would be a perfect fit if he can play), and take on Vuc to eat up regular season center minutes to help preserve AD. Also add a proven good 3&d vet in Torrey Craig.

Ball/Christie/James Jr
Reaves/Knecht/JHS
James Sr/Craig/Reddish
Davis/Vanderbilt
Vucevic/Castleton

Bulls simply continue getting younger. Add some more big man depth in Hayes and Wood.

NYG wrote:6. What other starter quality or better players will switch teams before the season?

I still have my eyes on Brook Lopez, Darius Garland, Cam johnson, Isaac Okoro, Wendel Carter Jr, Jerami Grant, Ayton, and Robert Williams 3 as players that could still be on the move before the season starts

NYG wrote:7. What other transaction-based storylines interest you that remain?

What the Blazers do with all their centers still interests me

Teams just over the tax and what decisions they'll make in-season.

NYG wrote:1. Will Lauri Markkanen be traded?
If yes, where to?

2. Will Zach LaVine be traded?
If yes, where to?

3. Will Brandon Ingram be traded?
If yes, where to?

4. What will the Miami Heat do?

5. What will the Los Angeles Lakers do?

6. What other starter quality or better players will switch teams before the season?

7. What other transaction-based storylines interest you that remain?

1. Yes, to Golden State (prayer hands emoji)

2. No

3. No

4. No major moves

5. Trade filler contracts and some combination of JHS/Knecht/future 1st to Brooklyn for Cam Johnson/DFS

6. Jerami Grant, Walker Kessler, Cam Johnson

7.None

1. Will Lauri Markkanen be traded? Yes
If yes, where to? Warriors

2. Will Zach LaVine be traded? Not Yet

3. Will Brandon Ingram be traded? Yes
If yes, where to? Lakers

4. What will the Miami Heat do? I bet they make some minor moves for depth, but also... with the Rockets-Durant rumors, for some reason I could see a late season trade where Miami gets a haul for Butler from Houston and pivots to building around Bam

5. What will the Los Angeles Lakers do? Kessler trade and Ingram trade / sign Tyus

6. What other starter quality or better players will switch teams before the season? DFS/Cam, Vuc, BroLo, Kessler

7. What other transaction-based storylines interest you that remain? Does Cleveland end up making a big move?

Canadafan wrote:4. Trade for Jerami Grant

Lol what? Why would they do that?

Paz wrote:

Canadafan wrote:4. Trade for Jerami Grant

Lol what? Why would they do that?

Lol I dunno. They need to do something!

1. Will Lauri Markkanen be traded? NO

2. Will Zach LaVine be traded? NO

3. Will Brandon Ingram be traded? NO

4. What will the Miami Heat do? Nothing significant.

5. What will the Los Angeles Lakers do? Nothing significant.

6. What other starter quality or better players will switch teams before the season? Jerami Grant, Cameron Johnson

7. What other transaction-based storylines interest you that remain? The structure of Lauri's R+E. One more big trade that comes out of nowhere.

Canadafan wrote:

Paz wrote:

Canadafan wrote:4. Trade for Jerami Grant

Lol what? Why would they do that?

Lol I dunno. They need to do something!

I agree the HEAT should do something but Jerami Grant? He's not what they need. They need size, rebounding, defense... He's going to give them 0% of that.