Woj: Celtics and Lakers Engaged with Pelicans on Anthony Davis Trade

[dakomish23]

Apparently there's talks of Zach Lavine (Bulls as the 3rd team) for the Lakers 4th pick.

I don’t get the Lavine hype. He is good being paid as if he was great. He is a negative asset to a team imo.

If this is a possibility for Bulls, great for them.

18 mil is not great player money

[nzahir]

Apparently there's talks of Zach Lavine (Bulls as the 3rd team) for the Lakers 4th pick.

I don’t get the Lavine hype. He is good being paid as if he was great. He is a negative asset to a team imo.

If this is a possibility for Bulls, great for them.

Same

And why would pels want to bring in BI and Lavine, limiting cap flexibility.

#4 for Lavine, 2021 1st top 5 protected maybe?

[SlowPaced]

To me, Ingram is a negative asset. His impact is questionable and has a huge health risk. Even if that all ends up being overblown, as a former #2 pick he is going to want big money on his next contract. Unless he ridiculously improves, getting Ingram for 1 year and then having him demand $25 Mil/year is pretty gross.

Does anyone here think Ingram at 25/year is a good outcome for a team? He would have to massively improve quickly for that to be the case. 15/year I could work with, but he will be expecting WAY more than that

Nobody would give Ingram 25 mil per year, so it's fine. He'd have to settle for less.

[NBAFan93]

If Kuzma is the preferred asset that just shows how little they value Ingram and Ball.

Hard to see any trade go down with Kuzma as the frontliner. David should continue to hold out. They need to offer more and the Knicks need to get involved to have anychance at Kyrie and KD

They should be taking all three wtf is going on. If they don’t like Ingram and Ball should flip them to other teams for more assets and picks.

Lakers should flip them for them pre trade is what I would want if I was NOLA. They are the ones that started this all, let them do the leg work.

[NBAFan93]

Apparently there's talks of Zach Lavine (Bulls as the 3rd team) for the Lakers 4th pick.

I don’t get the Lavine hype. He is good being paid as if he was great. He is a negative asset to a team imo.

If this is a possibility for Bulls, great for them.

Same

And why would pels want to bring in BI and Lavine, limiting cap flexibility.

#4 for Lavine, 2021 1st top 5 protected maybe?

Lavine is a lot better than any of those Lakers players IMO and I would have interest in him if I was NOLA. I wouldn’t give him up for the #4 pick alone if I was Chicago though and what else would they want of LAs that would make them do that?

[PKABOOICU]

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not sure if he's legit

[sogood]

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supposedly this guy broke some previous trades as well.

He haven't broken ****.

Dude is known for stalking Dwight Howard a few years back.

[snaquille oatmeal]

If Kuzma is the preferred asset that just shows how little they value Ingram and Ball.

Hard to see any trade go down with Kuzma as the frontliner. David should continue to hold out. They need to offer more and the Knicks need to get involved to have anychance at Kyrie and KD

They should be taking all three wtf is going on. If they don’t like Ingram and Ball should flip them to other teams for more assets and picks.

Lakers should flip them for them pre trade is what I would want if I was NOLA. They are the ones that started this all, let them do the leg work.

Shouldn’t get so hung up on which laker is better, I think is more about Kuz only making 2 mil a year versus 8 to 9 for BI and Lonzo.

[The Laker Kid]

I'm waiting for the Woj/Shams: "Pelicans trade Anthony Davis to Lakers in 3 team deal" headline.

Me 2. I'm just scrolling really quick looking for tweets and updates. Well, I read LKN's Laker bashing once in a while for entertainment

[PKABOOICU]

I'm waiting for the Woj/Shams: "Pelicans trade Anthony Davis to Lakers in 3 team deal" headline.

Me 2. I'm just scrolling really quick looking for tweets and updates. Well, I read LKN's Laker bashing once in a while for entertainment

That guy is on a mission

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[HeatIn5]

Would this work?

To Lakers: Anthony Davis

To Pelicans: Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart, #6 or 7, #8, #10

To Hawks: #4 pick, Moritz Wagner

To Suns or Bulls: Lonzo Ball

[Banner18]

If NO trades AD to the Lakers for the Lakers core, a core that couldn’t even sniff the playoffs playing with the most dominant player in the league, they will be the biggest joke in sports. Besides for the lack of talent coming back to NO, it further perpetuates the idea that the LAs and NYs and the LeBrons can bully small market teams to trade their stars. NBA is quickly going the way of European soccer where one or two teams per league buy all the best players and win all the championships.

[VCfor3]

Would this work?

To Lakers: Anthony Davis

To Pelicans: Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart, #6 or 7, #8, #10

To Hawks: #4 pick, Moritz Wagner

To Suns or Bulls: Lonzo Ball

I don't think the Hawks do that. I think they were looking to move 10+17 to move up for Culver. Maybe you can use Wagner to get them to give up 8+17 instead. Luckily I don't think there is really a drop in the tier of prospects really available at 10 and 17 so may not be a big issue for NOP to have that change in place.

[The Laker Kid]

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[TheNewEra]

Would this work?

To Lakers: Anthony Davis

To Pelicans: Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart, #6 or 7, #8, #10

To Hawks: #4 pick, Moritz Wagner

To Suns or Bulls: Lonzo Ball

Who do the Hawks even want to trade up for? Culver when you already looking to from Huerter and paying Crabee and Bazemore go stay away? Better off waiting at 8 for Reddish and getting a stretch big man at 10

[Jagic Mohnson]

pelicans are messing up by wanting to bring in a vet like a bradley beal. the one thing you dont need is a vet to usurp leadership from your prince and future king zion. giannis, kobe, and jordan learned to be leaders. i mena jordan took 7 years to be a champ and it took kobe around 9-10 years from 96-2006 to learn how to be a leader since shaq was the big bro and kobe had to be the big bro when shaq left. follow the sixers and warrior who built a yougn squad who grew up and from the squad a leader will emerge whethers its zion or whichever young player they get from a trade.

[Duke4life831]

Griffin is NOT going to take Ingram, Ball, and 4. I don't think Ball has the value that Laker fans think he has. I would put his value as a mid first round (non lottery) draft pick. Griffin knows that Lakers HAVE to make a trade for Davis, and yes, they do. No one is coming to the Lakers as a free agent this year without another star besides Lebron. I do think the trade will be with the Lakers, but only if they are willing to give up more than what is being reported, which at this point they will do what it takes to get a deal done.

Pelicans make a counter offer to Lakers

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But I thought you already posted a tweet that you said was super reliable and the deal was done and LA was keeping Kuzma and not sending out the #4 pick? Its almost like posting random twitter accounts as real news is kind of pointless.

[Dirk]

Griffin is NOT going to take Ingram, Ball, and 4. I don't think Ball has the value that Laker fans think he has. I would put his value as a mid first round (non lottery) draft pick. Griffin knows that Lakers HAVE to make a trade for Davis, and yes, they do. No one is coming to the Lakers as a free agent this year without another star besides Lebron. I do think the trade will be with the Lakers, but only if they are willing to give up more than what is being reported, which at this point they will do what it takes to get a deal done.

Pelicans make a counter offer to Lakers

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But I thought you already posted a tweet that you said was super reliable and the deal was done and LA was keeping Kuzma and not sending out the #4 pick? Its almost like posting random twitter accounts as real news is kind of pointless.

JimmyTheGreek --- take a cue from this and stick to posting only tweets from verified accounts. Don't ruin your impeccable reputation as RealGM's primary news breaker by copy and pasting random tweets that only serve to frustrate other users.

[DusterBuster]

pelicans are messing up by wanting to bring in a vet like a bradley beal. the one thing you dont need is a vet to usurp leadership from your prince and future king zion. giannis, kobe, and jordan learned to be leaders. i mena jordan took 7 years to be a champ and it took kobe around 9-10 years from 96-2006 to learn how to be a leader since shaq was the big bro and kobe had to be the big bro when shaq left. follow the sixers and warrior who built a yougn squad who grew up and from the squad a leader will emerge whethers its zion or whichever young player they get from a trade.

The Pelicans want a professional veteran to lead the team and set an example for Zion. Having nothing but a collection of young guys usually leads to a somewhat combative lockerroom where young guys with egos end up butting heads for who should be the alpha.

The weird thing for me is that I would think they already have that in Holiday, but maybe Jrue has asked out after AD is gone already or Griff - for some reason - doesn't have faith in Jrue to be that guy. Or maybe he just wants more than one vet in the lockerroom to help be that stabilizing force as Zion gets his NBA footing?

Regardless, the Pels are messing nothing up with the idea of having some high quality veteran influences around Zion, that's a smart move.

[levon]

Yall just posting complete hacks now.