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Zion Williamson Would Receive 'Significant Interest' If Placed On Trade Market
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 12:21 pm
by RealGM Wiretap
Zion Williamson has played at an All-NBA level since returning from his hamstring injury in January. Williamson's future with the New Orleans Pelicans was unclear while he was out given his injury history and their place in the Western Conference hierarchy.
"I remember Bobby [Marks] and I wrote a story just as he was about to come back and kind of like 'What's coming with Zion?'" said Tim MacMahon on The Hoop Collective Podcast. "What the trade value and market might be for him.
"Somebody told us then the goal is to ramp him up and restore his value whether that's for the Pelicans or another team. And he's handling the first part, to his credit, he is absolutely handling the first part."
"I still don't know how much they can actually get for him based on his injury history," replied Brian Windhorst.
"There's some teams that would have significant interest," said MacMahon.
Via Brian Windhorst/ESPN
Re: Zion Williamson Would Receive 'Significant Interest' If Placed On Trade Market
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 1:05 pm
by Melwing
Liposuction and a lobotomy
Re: Zion Williamson Would Receive 'Significant Interest' If Placed On Trade Market
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 2:21 pm
by chilluminati
Trading for Zion is like a worse version of trading for AD.
Re: Zion Williamson Would Receive 'Significant Interest' If Placed On Trade Market
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 2:36 pm
by FreeBoosie
Yeah ok
Re: Zion Williamson Would Receive 'Significant Interest' If Placed On Trade Market
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 6:20 pm
by HotelVitale
FreeBoosie wrote:Yeah ok
This is a pretty bad clip cap, the actual conversation is ‘teams aren’t gonna wanna risk that injury right’ and then ‘yeah but maybe one team will have interest.’
Re: Zion Williamson Would Receive 'Significant Interest' If Placed On Trade Market
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 8:21 pm
by Pickled Prunes
chilluminati wrote:Trading for Zion is like a worse version of trading for AD.
The problem with trading for AD is that Luka was in the deal. Most teams would have had interest in AD if their best player wasn't involved in the deal.
HotelVitale wrote:FreeBoosie wrote:Yeah ok
This is a pretty bad clip cap, the actual conversation is ‘teams aren’t gonna wanna risk that injury right’ and then ‘yeah but maybe one team will have interest.’
There is very little risk in trading for Zion. His contract is laden with protections. Worse case scenario, he gets waived and turned into cap relief. If fully healthy Zion is worth five 1sts plus a good player... and cap relief is worth one 1st plus matching salary, I'd expect his value to be in the middle... two-three 1sts plus a couple of OK rotation players. There would be interest.
Re: Zion Williamson Would Receive 'Significant Interest' If Placed On Trade Market
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2025 9:40 pm
by lonzo_pelota
lakers gonna offer, rui, gabe vincent, a bag of popcorn and cam reddish
Re: Zion Williamson Would Receive 'Significant Interest' If Placed On Trade Market
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 2:00 am
by Rek
lonzo_pelota wrote:lakers gonna offer, rui, gabe vincent, a bag of popcorn and cam reddish
Hey now. We're not cheap like that!
We're offering a 2nd rounder AND as 2nd round swap as well.
Re: Zion Williamson Would Receive 'Significant Interest' If Placed On Trade Market
Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2025 5:50 am
by lonzo_pelota
Rek wrote:lonzo_pelota wrote:lakers gonna offer, rui, gabe vincent, a bag of popcorn and cam reddish
Hey now. We're not cheap like that!
We're offering a 2nd rounder AND as 2nd round swap as well.
lol