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I am a bit late, but here is what happens next in my opinion:

Vucevic will be traded to GSW
Cameron Johnson will be traded to SAC
Jimmy Butler will be traded to PHO
and...
Lonzo Ball and Jalen Smith will be traded to MIN for Julius Randle, no picks attached!!!

I hope we see some more excitement, and some West teams trade their stars out East!

For the Wolves I don't think we will see much. Really only have Randle or Naw to move and with the injuries it doesn't seem likely at the moment.

minimus wrote:I am a bit late, but here is what happens next in my opinion:

Vucevic will be traded to GSW
Cameron Johnson will be traded to SAC
Jimmy Butler will be traded to PHO
and...
Lonzo Ball and Jalen Smith will be traded to MIN for Julius Randle, no picks attached!!!

That would be awful. I like Lonzo but he's getting bought out unless traded. That is not good value for Randle.

I actually think if a trade is going to be made by the Wolves it'll be NAW going out. With Clark's emergence and impeding FA this summer he's the odd one out IMO.

i just hope Randle gets traded. really dont care anymore who we get

TWolves do nothing

ILC wrote:

minimus wrote:I am a bit late, but here is what happens next in my opinion:

Vucevic will be traded to GSW
Cameron Johnson will be traded to SAC
Jimmy Butler will be traded to PHO
and...
Lonzo Ball and Jalen Smith will be traded to MIN for Julius Randle, no picks attached!!!

That would be awful. I like Lonzo but he's getting bought out unless traded. That is not good value for Randle.

I actually think if a trade is going to be made by the Wolves it'll be NAW going out. With Clark's emergence and impeding FA this summer he's the odd one out IMO.

Whats a good value for Randle?

P.S. As much as I like NAW I can see MIN trading him...

After this past weekend, I feel more confident that we make a trade.

After Minott fell out of rotation, I think we can see TC getting a big wing.

ILC wrote:

minimus wrote:I am a bit late, but here is what happens next in my opinion:

Vucevic will be traded to GSW
Cameron Johnson will be traded to SAC
Jimmy Butler will be traded to PHO
and...
Lonzo Ball and Jalen Smith will be traded to MIN for Julius Randle, no picks attached!!!

That would be awful. I like Lonzo but he's getting bought out unless traded. That is not good value for Randle.

I actually think if a trade is going to be made by the Wolves it'll be NAW going out. With Clark's emergence and impeding FA this summer he's the odd one out IMO.

I want to preface this by saying I am a Josh Okogie fan. Clark’s “emergence” has literally been 3 games and he looks like a slightly different Josh Okogie. Okogie is better at staying in front, but worse at playing the gaps and recovering. Clark got beat a couple of times off the dribble (needs to improve his technique at staying in front,) but he does provide that gap help similar to how teams defend Ant. Moreover Clark played in 19:57 (let’s call it 20 minutes,) and besides going 1-4 from deep only scored 9 points on 9 shots. That means he has played 47 minutes and scored 17. The majority of those points (15) scored against the defense of Washington and Utah. Clark is not the next NAW yet. Shannon is ideally much closer.

I predict Josh Minott will not be a wolf on Friday.

I still think the Mavs land Brandon Ingram for pennies on the dollar...

Kyrie
Christie
Ingram
Davis
Gafford/Lively

That's a legit problem for the West

ILC wrote:

minimus wrote:I am a bit late, but here is what happens next in my opinion:

Vucevic will be traded to GSW
Cameron Johnson will be traded to SAC
Jimmy Butler will be traded to PHO
and...
Lonzo Ball and Jalen Smith will be traded to MIN for Julius Randle, no picks attached!!!

That would be awful. I like Lonzo but he's getting bought out unless traded. That is not good value for Randle.

I actually think if a trade is going to be made by the Wolves it'll be NAW going out. With Clark's emergence and impeding FA this summer he's the odd one out IMO.

I agree with all of this.
I hope we trade NAW as we are highly unlikely to resign him, get some picks for me while we can. I really like him, but we can't afford to keep him.

ILC wrote:

minimus wrote:I am a bit late, but here is what happens next in my opinion:

Vucevic will be traded to GSW
Cameron Johnson will be traded to SAC
Jimmy Butler will be traded to PHO
and...
Lonzo Ball and Jalen Smith will be traded to MIN for Julius Randle, no picks attached!!!

That would be awful. I like Lonzo but he's getting bought out unless traded. That is not good value for Randle.

I actually think if a trade is going to be made by the Wolves it'll be NAW going out. With Clark's emergence and impeding FA this summer he's the odd one out IMO.

If he gets bought out, we can't sign him.

Plus I want his Bird Rights if he finishes the year strong.

I do think Ingram ends up a Mav, Spur, or Piston. I think this will be our best opportunity to maximize our returned value of Randle. For example, if we get involved in a 3 team with Dallas...

Dal OUT: Thompson, Washington, Gafford, '25 SRP (Philly)
Dal IN: Ingram, Herb Jones, '25 SRP (Utah)

NOP OUT: Ingram, Herb Jones, Alvarado
NOP IN: Randle, Washington, '25 SRP (Philly)

MN IN: Thompson, Gafford, Alvarado
MN OUT: Randle, '25 SRP (Utah)
PG: Mike-Alvarado-RD
SG: Ant-DD-NAW (probably traded as well)
SF; Jaden-Klay-Naz
PF: Naz-Jaden
C: Rudy, Gafford

BlacJacMac wrote:

ILC wrote:

minimus wrote:I am a bit late, but here is what happens next in my opinion:

Vucevic will be traded to GSW
Cameron Johnson will be traded to SAC
Jimmy Butler will be traded to PHO
and...
Lonzo Ball and Jalen Smith will be traded to MIN for Julius Randle, no picks attached!!!

That would be awful. I like Lonzo but he's getting bought out unless traded. That is not good value for Randle.

I actually think if a trade is going to be made by the Wolves it'll be NAW going out. With Clark's emergence and impeding FA this summer he's the odd one out IMO.

If he gets bought out, we can't sign him.

Plus I want his Bird Rights if he finishes the year strong.

This. Plus I don't like situation when MIN wait until off-season to resolve Randle situation and/or only then bring new faces. But I am kind of okay to use this season as experiment, in case of Lonzo I would love to give him a few runs to see how McDaniels, Edwards, Reid and Dilly will look in fast paced basketball. Then in off-season it will make easier to identify path forward.

minimus wrote:I am a bit late, but here is what happens next in my opinion:

Vucevic will be traded to GSW
Cameron Johnson will be traded to SAC
Jimmy Butler will be traded to PHO
and...
Lonzo Ball and Jalen Smith will be traded to MIN for Julius Randle, no picks attached!!!

Yuck for the Wolves if we do that.

Wolves will do nothing.
Nobody wants Jimmy.
Vucevic and Valanciunas go to contenders.

NBA and NFL go full pro wrestling and merge with WWE/UFC.

Referees get permanently replaced with AI systems that Silver can just tweak the dials on as he pleases just like NBA 2k sliders.

We are more than willing to facilitate a trade to send Randle to miami, but it doesn't happen.

NAW does get traded.

I can see us just treading water until the offseason - Not what I want, but what I can see

Randle injury make him difficult to move. NAW is the one who may be moved. Not consistent enough to sign him a big contract but who knows. After the Luka-AD trade, anything can happen !