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Tripod wrote:Psubs wrote:mihaic wrote:You need alot of salary to trade for him. Quick and RJ. Or Scottie and filler.
RJ Barrett, Jakob Poeltl, Gradey Dick, Ochai Agbaji for KD and Nick Richards.
PG IQ - Shead
SG Ja'Kobe - Lawson - Rhoden
SF Durant - Battle - Carter Bryant
PF Scottie - Mogbo - Carter Bryant
C Richards - #39 / Chomche
Since no one mentioned it, you are missing Ingram.
Mal or die trying
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Happy Flagg Day to all who celebrate.
The NBA's annual Draft Lottery takes place Monday night in Chicago to determine, first and foremost, who wins the No. 1 overall pick and the right to draft Duke's Cooper Flagg.
That is the most important matter in #thisleague which ranks as a lock to be determined this week, but the future of Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo certainly looms over the lottery and the weeklong draft combine activities in the Windy City as the obvious co-headliner.
My latest reporting on the Giannis front in eight separate installments:
League sources say that Antetokounmpo, no matter what was breathlessly discussed and debated on the Monday morning talk shows, has made no firm decisions yet about his future. Maybe he will ultimately ask the Bucks to trade him. At the moment, though, that is still a maybe.
The Bucks, league sources say, remain hopeful that Antetokounmpo will not ask out after a third successive first-round exit. Maybe it is false hope, but Milwaukee — as we've been writing all season — isn't going to entertain the prospect of trading its face of the franchise until it has to.
Neither of the first two points will dissuade 29 other teams from checking in with the Bucks this week as well as Antetokounmpo's representation — and, yes, Octagon's Alex Saratsis is a Northwestern grad based in Chicago — to register their interest in the event that the 30-year-old who has spent his entire 12-year as a career as a Buck is made available via trade.
It is believed that the Bucks' annual postseason sitdown with Saratsis and co-agent Georgios Panou to delve into Antetokounmpo's future has not yet taken place.
Don't forget that Antetokounmpo is likely in the extreme to try to dictate the destination to the extent that is possible … provided, once again, he actually requests a trade. He has two fully guaranteed years left on his contract before a $62.8 million player option in 2027-28.
Putting aside, for a moment, how much Giannis will be able to actually dictate destination … we've been writing since January that Antetokounmpo is Brooklyn's dream trade target. Houston and San Antonio are obviously incredibly well-positioned to make a trade run at the two-time MVP. Oklahoma City certainly could be an extremely viable trade partner if the Thunder decided to divert from their famously patient team-building approach to join the fray. Utah is another team with a variety of trade assets that never gets mentioned in these hypotheticals. New Orleans is a team to monitor, too, as a potential participant in an eventual multi-team Antetokounmpo trade construction because the Pelicans have control of the Bucks' first-round pick in the next three drafts.
Yet we repeat: That is only a partial list of teams expected to make trade bids for Antetokounmpo if (when?) we reach the point that the Bucks start fielding offers. One more time: We are not there yet.
Emphasis on yet.
Tor_Raps wrote:Would you guys roll the dice one Embiid and hope the Raptors staff can Kawhi him back to health? Poeltl + RJ + Dick for Embiid
IQ/ Shead
Ochai/ Walter
Ingram/ Battle
Barnes/ Mogbo
Embiid / Queen or Maluach
Godaddycurse wrote:Tor_Raps wrote:Would you guys roll the dice one Embiid and hope the Raptors staff can Kawhi him back to health? Poeltl + RJ + Dick for Embiid
IQ/ Shead
Ochai/ Walter
Ingram/ Battle
Barnes/ Mogbo
Embiid / Queen or Maluach
No. If philly was willing to make that trade its a major red flag
Tor_Raps wrote:Would you guys roll the dice one Embiid and hope the Raptors staff can Kawhi him back to health? Poeltl + RJ + Dick for Embiid
If the Boston Celtics choose to move veteran players this summer, two teams to keep an eye on as trade partners are the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets. Both the Spurs and Rockets could be looking to add win-now pieces, while the Celtics could be looking to lessen their tax burden in the wake of Jayson Tatum's torn Achilles.
It's been speculated that Boston could look to move on from Kristaps Porzingis, Jrue Holiday, Sam Hauser, or perhaps even Jaylen Brown this offseason. The Celtics are currently face a combined salary and luxury tax bill of over $500 million for next season. Given that Tatum is likely to miss most, if not all, of next season, that's a figure that Brad Stevens and the new ownership group will likely look to lessen.
Houston head coach Ime Udoka has familiarity with some of the Celtics players from his time as their head coach. San Antonio is rumored to be open to moving the second overall pick, if they can add a major player to push things forward around Victor Wembanyama and De'Aaron Fox.
WuTang_OG wrote:If the Boston Celtics choose to move veteran players this summer, two teams to keep an eye on as trade partners are the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets. Both the Spurs and Rockets could be looking to add win-now pieces, while the Celtics could be looking to lessen their tax burden in the wake of Jayson Tatum's torn Achilles.
It's been speculated that Boston could look to move on from Kristaps Porzingis, Jrue Holiday, Sam Hauser, or perhaps even Jaylen Brown this offseason. The Celtics are currently face a combined salary and luxury tax bill of over $500 million for next season. Given that Tatum is likely to miss most, if not all, of next season, that's a figure that Brad Stevens and the new ownership group will likely look to lessen.
Houston head coach Ime Udoka has familiarity with some of the Celtics players from his time as their head coach. San Antonio is rumored to be open to moving the second overall pick, if they can add a major player to push things forward around Victor Wembanyama and De'Aaron Fox.