Qwigglez wrote:sunskerr wrote:Qwigglez wrote:We'd have to steal Jalen Williams. Durant is old, but he's still putting up 28 points a game. Plus, the Thunder keeping Dort, gives them that on-ball defender that they would need in the playoffs against players like ANT.
Too valuable. He's 22 averaging a shave under 19 ppg on 54% FG and 42% 3P, getting his own shots, running the offense, and defending very well. That's a star prospect the second he gets his own team. Love to have him but it's not happening.
Probably just get Giddey and see if he can grow into a future PG for us and then a 2nd prospect + whatever picks they agree to.
I think it's fair to say Jalen Williams has more value, but I don't think the Suns would trade KD without getting something more valuable than Giddey.
It would be better to just keep Durant if the best asset returning is Giddey as Suns don't own their 2025 pick, 2027 pick, 2029 pick. Keeping KD keeps the Suns out of being a bottom feeder, and his contract expires in 2025/26, along with Nurkic. Likely, if the Suns offer Royce O'Neal a contract it will be a 2-year deal worth $13-15 million a season, that way his contract also expires after 2025/26 season.
And this isn't directed at you, but I'm not sure what the Knicks would throw to get KD since they have a lot of team chemistry, and they shouldn't want to disrupt that, but would the offer be Anunoby and like... Robinson?
I hear what you're saying in your response to sunskerr and in regards to Williams value and our preferred value in any KD trade. BUT the important consideration in this premise is the value exchange (coming back to us in this scenario) can be cumulative. As in while not getting J Williams back, Giddey would only be one piece of multiple in a return for KD. I for my part wouldn't do it for anything less than Dort/ Giddy/ Joe or Wiggins and multiple picks (maybe 2-3 1sts and some 2nds too). I can easily feel comfortable with this kind of offer knowing that New York would very likely bite on a KD trade as they've coveted him for quite awhile now! And if they make it far enough in the postseason this year, He'll be seen as the potential elusive piece that could get them into the finals or possibly further?
As for what I'd ask for back, It'd most likely be one of two packages:
Package #1KD for Randle/Bogdanovic/ McBride/ 24' WAS 1st (1-12 protected)/ MIL 25' 1st (1-4 protected)/ NY 27' 1st/ BRK 25' 2nd (no protections)/ NY 27' 2nd/29' 2nd via IND or WAS (no protections).
Bojan Bogdanovic would be a 20 million expiring contract that could give us more cap space or that we could flip for other assets? Randle can add more rebounding, toughness, physicality and playmaking alongside of Nurkic in our frontcourt giving us a more dominant frontcourt to compliment our backcourt of Book and Beal "the BB gunners"...lol. And with Randle and Nurkic sharing playmaking as unconventional initiators, Book and Beal would have less playmaking pressure and could focus more on scoring!
Package #2KD for Randle/Hart/Sims/McBride/ 24' WAS 1st (1-12 protected)/ MIL 25' 1st (1-4 protected)/ NY 27' 1st/ BRK 25' 2nd (no protections)/ NY 27' 2nd/29' 2nd via IND or WAS (no protections). Similar premise as above, but more positional depth