sol537 wrote:Spree2Houston wrote:TrueWarrior wrote:
You guys have to see that the Cavs would not accept this.
Deuce is a solid young player, but not the centerpiece to a star trade.
Bojan is 35, injured, and clearly declining. He’s basically salary filler.
Mitch is always injured, overweight, and has not developed. They also have Allen and Mobley so he’d have to be shipped to a 3rd team.
While our picks would theoretically be late 1sts for the next 5 years, so not much value unless we give up picks way down the line.
The only way getting Donovan makes some sense is to trade Julius for him, since we wouldn’t have enough defense or shots for everyone otherwise. Gotta throw Deuce in too since his role would be gone anyway.
So Julius and Deuce for Donovan. However the Cavs have to make a decision on the Allen/Mobley front court, because obviously Julius would need to start or be traded to a 3rd team.
Like I keep saying, I think we will just run it back with Julius. Maybe add Rokas and another wing. See what we can get for Mitch, Deuce, and Bojan but unless a superstar demands out I dont see much there for us.
To add on to this
Why would Cleveland take a package ( Bojan, Mitch and picks) where it would make their team weaker which would simultaneously hand over superior picks to Ainge and Cleveland receiving inferior picks from NY because we would be picking low. Someone explain the logic lol
The logic is as simple as this... Spida says he's opting out and becoming a free agent... every day that passes, his value drops further and everyone knows he wants NYK so the teams willing to give up bigger packages dwindle to near zero.
What did TOR get for Siakam?
Toronto had the cap space to go after Siakam in FA. So in this scenario it made sense to trade Siakam before he hit FA. He was going to walk and sign in Indy.
Right now only Philly, OKC and Utah have cap space at the end of 2024-2025. Philly is going use it all up this off season and I don’t expect OKC or Utah (lol) would be interested in Mitchell. The same threat doesn’t exist for Cleveland in this scenario where they have to trade him or let him walk for nothing. There’s no team that pose that threat to them.
If he does go, it’ll be in a sign and trade where some team (Brooklyn) will overpay for him