Trades and Transactions Thread - 2025 Cont'd

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[LookToShoot]

I find this ironic since Jhart is the main reason why the offense is soo bogged down and terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Teams aren’t guarding him because he **** sucks on offense and he’s afraid to shoot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So maybe he should look in the **** mirror!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And for you to compare Brunson to iso Joe is absolutely ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Iso Joe never lead his team to the ecf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He was a first round exit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So again I ask you…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Be better Dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BE BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fluke run to the ECF like the Jazz to the WCF in ‘07 (benefitted from GS upsetting Dallas) or the Grizzlies in ‘13 (benefitted from Beverly injuring Westbrook).

This team had problems since the start of the season. Their offense is dysfunctional, so they have to work twice as hard on the defensive end.

As far as I’m concerned, every player can be traded.

Who are you and why do you show up when the team’s losing?

I proposed the OG trade months before it happened. I proposed the Knicks signing Brunson months before it happened. Got hate for both, check the post history. So your question is silly. Gotta learn how to think outside the box, that’s how you build a championship team. Can’t settle for mediocrity.

[K_ick_God]

y'all can keep believing you can win with dumb ass snuffleupagus trying to play defense if you want, i'll take my chances with durant.

[K_ick_God]

I'd do a reverse OG trade. Send him out for two pieces that can help bolster the rotation. A forward and a guard, preferably young. That's all I got.

[3toheadmelo]

Trade KD for KAT. Trade Mikal + picks for Zubac and Derrick Jones.


Brunson
Deuce
OG
KD
Zubac

[K_ick_God]

Trade KD for KAT. Trade Mikal + picks for Zubac and Derrick Jones.


Brunson
Deuce
OG
KD
Zubac

Zero chance on the second one.

[3toheadmelo]

Trade KD for KAT. Trade Mikal + picks for Zubac and Derrick Jones.


Brunson
Deuce
OG
KD
Zubac

Zero chance on the second one.

Zero chance on your reverse og trade

[8516knicks]

Trade KD for KAT. Trade Mikal + picks for Zubac and Derrick Jones.


Brunson
Deuce
OG
KD
Zubac

Zero chance on the second one.

Less than zero.

[G_K_F]

We do t need or want 37 year old Kevin Durant. Cmon bruh.

I’d rather take back Herb Jones and Trey Murphy for KAT.

[K_ick_God]

We do t need or want 37 year old Kevin Durant. Cmon bruh.

I’d rather take back Herb Jones and Trey Murphy for KAT.

Thanks to Tom, the team is entering the Dark Ages.

[8516knicks]

We do t need or want 37 year old Kevin Durant. Cmon bruh.

I’d rather take back Herb Jones and Trey Murphy for KAT.

I just remember Dante Cunnigham locking up KD in a VU = Texas game. Never really appreciated KD after that.

[spree2kawhi]

Deuce and I don’t know who else for Gafford.

[spree8]

Deuce and I don’t know who else for Gafford.

Deuce should be untouchable on that contract

[3toheadmelo]

Brunson
Deuce
Og
Kd
Zubac

Make it happen leon!

[R-DAWG]

Deuce and I don’t know who else for Gafford.

What about Hart for Gafford without Duce?

Would open up room under the apron to add in Toronto to do a Pacome for Ochai Agbaji swap.

This would leave 10 players on the roster, with $13mm in change below the 2nd apron:

Brunson/Bridges/Anunoby/Towns/Gafford
McBride/Agbaji/Robinson
Kolek/Hukporti

Should allow us to use the full taxpayer MLE, resign Precious and retain his bird rights, add one vet min, and a 2nd rd pick with about $1mm of breathing room below the 2nd apron.

[spree2kawhi]

Deuce and I don’t know who else for Gafford.

What about Hart for Gafford without Duce?

Would open up room under the apron to add in Toronto to do a Pacome for Ochai Agbaji swap.

This would leave 10 players on the roster, with $13mm in change below the 2nd apron:

Brunson/Bridges/Anunoby/Towns/Gafford
McBride/Agbaji/Robinson
Kolek/Hukporti

Should allow us to use the full taxpayer MLE, resign Precious and retain his bird rights, add one vet min, and a 2nd rd pick with about $1mm of breathing room below the 2nd apron.

They’re not trading the Villanova boys. I don’t really anticipate any blockbusters at all. I’d say it’s either Donte or someone like Gafford.

[R-DAWG]

Deuce and I don’t know who else for Gafford.

What about Hart for Gafford without Duce?

Would open up room under the apron to add in Toronto to do a Pacome for Ochai Agbaji swap.

This would leave 10 players on the roster, with $13mm in change below the 2nd apron:

Brunson/Bridges/Anunoby/Towns/Gafford
McBride/Agbaji/Robinson
Kolek/Hukporti

Should allow us to use the full taxpayer MLE, resign Precious and retain his bird rights, add one vet min, and a 2nd rd pick with about $1mm of breathing room below the 2nd apron.

They’re not trading the Villanova boys. I don’t really anticipate any blockbusters at all. I’d say it’s either Donte or someone like Gafford.

And how are you fitting in Donte under the apron?

Haven’t we overpaid enough for his Villanova narrative.

[KnixinSix]

Why does Utah do it?

Towns is not a star for everyone. Not with that salary and flaws in defense. It will depend on the team.

He is certainly not a good match for Thibs who forces him to try and do way too much.

[KnixinSix]

Overpaying role players is always risky. It can work, but you need efficiencies in other places on the roster. The Knicks really don’t have that since KAT’s deal offsets Brunson’s discount and Hart/OG offset Bridges being slightly below market value.

We should appreciate the season that we are having, but looking forward we have a flawed roster with a bloated payroll and no draft capital.

Pacers’ best perimeter defenders, Nembhard and Nesmith, are making a combined $29 million next season. And they’re on their second contracts. OG and Bridges are making $65 million combined for similar duties and production.

I think what Brunson is getting paid is his value, I don’t consider it a discount. He was smart to take the money because he has limitations.

Are Nembhard and Nesmith being asked to hide two bad defenders in KAT and Brunson? I don’t think so. Mikal and OG aren’t the problem. Lowkey individually I don’t think KaT or Brunson is either. It’s when the two of them together on the floor that is the issue. A good defensive team can hide one bad defender, no way can they hide two. Don’t even get me started on how we really don’t have depth either we are asking Mikal and OG to play even more defensively than other teams because even if you sit one of Brunson or KAT down we still got to compensate for the other one.

I think the Knicks got to move KAT to deal with the holes on the roster. We don’t got a back up center (Maybe Huk but we don’t know), we don’t got a second scorer (if we move KAT), we don’t got a back up PG, and lowkey we need someone talented enough to push Hart back on the bench.

This is the CRUX of the situation right here.