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Option 1..

Poelt/D.Mitchell for OO/L.Nance+ 2/3 SRP

Option 2..
Poelt/D.Mitchell for Capela/Zeller(Cut)+ worse FRP(KINGS or LAL)...

Which of the 2 makes more sense?

The RAPTORS are immersed in a rebuild and Poelt is 29 years old...by the time they are ready to compete, Jakov's best moment will probably have passed

The HAWKS don't own their team this year...they improve in their weakest position (they also get the PG support you need)

I only see tyre Capela deal if the first one isn't offered plus Toronto has no interest in bringing Poeltl back and loves a prospect in that 20+ range. Clint is what he is a good defensive rebounder and post defender but a god awful free throw shooter and almost unplayable in close games. Okongwu on the other hand is still young and fits the core here plus he doesn't cost a bunch. Spacing is still a problem with Barnes but if Toronto is moving on from Poeltl I can't see deals really beating the first one

Recent reporting suggests Toronto is unlikely to move Poeltl this year. It's also suggested that Atlanta needs to add PG depth, so let's make the trade simpler. Atlanta sends Zeller and Roddy along with 2 seconds for Mitchell. Atlanta is able to retain Nance for other moves, and Toronto collects some draft capital for a player who is currently out of the rotation.

I think Poeltl might be the best center realistically available. And center is the spot Atlanta should be looking to upgrade. Claxton is the other name on Poeltl’s talent level, but think Brooklyn holds on to him.

But I think it’s the Capela version and both teams should be happy with it?

Something like this maybe, using the current draft slots:

Hawks: Poeltl + Mitchell + #23 (DAL)

Raptors: Gafford + Kleber + Zeller + #14 (ATL) - Say the better of the Lakers/Kings picks this year, as long as it's outside the top 10. If one is in the top 10, it's the other one.

Mavericks: Capela

Dallas gets 2 things:
1 - They're really struggling with with Gafford on the court this year. Capela would be an upgrade.

2 - They can probably re-sign Capela for like 16M a year and that saves them like 7M next year and he's better than Gafford. Combined those are worth a late 1st, considering they need to pay Grimes and right now that would put them solidly over the tax. They can maybe sneak under if they do this, and they can definitely get close enough that moving Jaden Hardy next year would mean they aren't a repeating tax team.

Raptors get a late lotto pick in a good draft, cement the tank. Kleber and Gafford expire next year, so are moveable or they're the bigs while the team rebuilds and then they expire, or you move them for bad 2026-27 money which is when RJ expires and try to trade picks and expiring for the best player on the trade market to join Barnes, Quickley, 4 firsts in the next 2 drafts and Agbaji/Dick/Walter and that's your 10 man rotation with Quickley the oldest player and he's 25 right now, so the whole team would be 27 and under when that trade happens.

Hawks secure a new starting center for moving down 9 picks, get some guard depth.

jayjaysee wrote:I think Poeltl might be the best center realistically available. And center is the spot Atlanta should be looking to upgrade. Claxton is the other name on Poeltl’s talent level, but think Brooklyn holds on to him.

But I think it’s the Capela version and both teams should be happy with it?

think it should be lotto protected, better of SAC/LAL 1st

Godaddycurse wrote:

jayjaysee wrote:I think Poeltl might be the best center realistically available. And center is the spot Atlanta should be looking to upgrade. Claxton is the other name on Poeltl’s talent level, but think Brooklyn holds on to him.

But I think it’s the Capela version and both teams should be happy with it?

think it should be lotto protected, better of SAC/LAL 1st

Agree. Complicates it but yeah, Toronto should have a chance at a mid teens pick like that.