Eazy E wrote:ShootingtheJ wrote:pifhluk23 wrote:
Well obviously we have to add picks and or a young guy. But they do it to clear cap space and set up the tank. Washington has needed to blow it up for years now. They are literally in the worst spot you can be in for an NBA team. It may have to be a 3 way so more picks go to WAS but I think there is a strong case for it to happen.
With their owner stating last week that they'll never, ever tank, I think it's unlikely that they'll tank. They're playing well enough since Wall got hurt that they'll make the playoffs.
Please stop with the Beal trades, it ain't happening.
Beal would be amazing next to Giannis but I agree it isn't happening. While we have the expirings if a rebuild is what they want, we don't have the right combinations of picks/young players to offer them to make them even consider trading Beal. After this year, John Wall is making $42M a year for the next 4 years. And I don't see many potential John Wall suitors out there. They are going to try to build around this duo much like Portland has with Lillard/McCollum.
And if you're Washington, you gotta think you at least have enough of a chance at Kevin Durant to not totally tear it down just yet...
The issue is that basically Wall and Beal are known to not get along. So that all does make sense overall, digging deeper it's just not going to work there with these two. really from most accounts it seems Wall is the problem and should be the one gone but he's basically untradeable on that contract. So what do you do?
I'd think for them they'd rather have Brogdon back than Middleton because he's RFA and guaranteed to keep. Plus the localish connections there. So our best offer is something like Brog, Hill, Thon/Wilson, and some long out picks. IDK, I guess that's not that bad of a deal but someone has to beat that right?
Outside the box idea for WAS. See if you can trade Wall for Conley. Conley is a great teammate and a better suited PG to go with Beal. From Mem perspective, they get a younger player they can push as their star who is controlled for years. So they can keep on competing rather than tanking out, which seems to be thier MO.
Resident Lillard truther since 2015.