Ell Curry wrote:IF we convey the pick to the Spurs and are looking to tank next year, I wonder if we could swing something like:
Raptors - Duren, Lonzo
Pels - Poeltl, #11 (CHI), Bruce Brown
Pistons - Ingram
Bulls - #21 (NOP),
Bulls save 20M for moving down 10 spots in a bad draft so they can pay DeMar and Pat Williams and still use the MLE and stay under the tax.
Pels move up 10 spots, stay under the tax and get a starting center who is an upgrade on D and Bruce Brown for a team of:
Poeltl-Nance
Zion-Herb
Herb-Brown
Murphy-Hawkins
McCollum-Daniels
and maybe they even move #11 with McCollum and future picks for a true PG, or they trade up into Dillingham or Sheppard range to get a shooter at PG.
Pistons get Ingram for Duren.
Raptors get younger at center, Lonzo expires in a year and Duren is still so young and raw that we're tanking hard but with some exciting young players and drafting a nice SG next year for Quickley-SG-Barrett-Barnes-Duren with Olynyk, Dick, #19, Agbaji and a couple of 2026 firsts giving us a cheap and young bench outside of Olynyk.
Under absolutely no circumstances will we set out to tank next year.
We needed Scottie to miss half the season with a bone break, Yak to miss months and RJ and IQ to miss extended time for personal reasons to barely finish 6th worst.
A healthy and present BBQ, with Yak, Gradey, Kelly, and Ochai and I think their floor will be a play-in team. I don’t know how you convince a group of talented young guys to not try their hardest. Tbh, why would you want to ingrain losing habits, anyway. Or perpetuate the idea to Scottie that we’re a losing franchise. Tanking is a bad idea normally. Wanting the 24-25 Raptors to tank is plain nuts.
Hopefully we keep our pick this year and convey our late lotto or later pick next year.