OKC Thunder Trades and Transaction Thread

Post #2161 » by **Dadouv47** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 11:01 am

Devilanche wrote:
Clav wrote:Is Luka really traded for AD, what in the world....

Yes .

For a heavily discounted price . This is like broke down Luka price.

I know this is a beyond terrible trade for the Mavs but I'm more worried to face them in the POs now. We struggle against them and AD is an issue too while we are always defending Luka pretty well.

Post #2162 » by **ThunderBolt** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 11:28 am

Pretty wild that Luka was involved in two of the worst trades in recent history,

Post #2163 » by **Dadouv47** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 11:30 am

Mavs GM showed Wiggins score 40 and decided it wasn't worth spending huge money in the 5+ years.

Post #2164 » by **Dadouv47** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 11:31 am

It's never safe in this league. I don't think Shai is likely to get traded but we shouldn't take for granted what we currently have and go for it. Just make a small improvement Presti.

bbms · Post #2165 » by **bbms** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 11:48 am

wow the mavs really wanted doncic gone

in a league where markkanen warrants 5 frps, the only way i see this trade is that the mavs really wanted him out

tbh they looked a little bit better without doncic, maybe im tripping

Post #2166 » by **Dadouv47** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 11:57 am

bbms wrote:wow the mavs really wanted doncic gone

in a league where markkanen warrants 5 frps, the only way i see this trade is that the mavs really wanted him out

tbh they looked a little bit better without doncic, maybe im tripping

I don't blame the Mavs for trying to trade Doncic but damn they could have gotten so much more.

cjmcallist · Post #2167 » by **cjmcallist** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 12:05 pm

Dadouv47 wrote:
bbms wrote:wow the mavs really wanted doncic gone

in a league where markkanen warrants 5 frps, the only way i see this trade is that the mavs really wanted him out

tbh they looked a little bit better without doncic, maybe im tripping

I don't blame the Mavs for trying to trade Doncic but damn they could have gotten so much more.

I can't believe it. Surely Presti would've paid a ransom for Luka.

Post #2168 » by **Dadouv47** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 12:09 pm

cjmcallist wrote:
Dadouv47 wrote:
bbms wrote:wow the mavs really wanted doncic gone

in a league where markkanen warrants 5 frps, the only way i see this trade is that the mavs really wanted him out

tbh they looked a little bit better without doncic, maybe im tripping

I don't blame the Mavs for trying to trade Doncic but damn they could have gotten so much more.

I can't believe it. Surely Presti would've paid a ransom for Luka.

A 3 team deal with AD going to OKC would have been better for OKC IMO. Doncic fit in OKC is beyond terrible.

cjmcallist · Post #2169 » by **cjmcallist** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 12:15 pm

Dadouv47 wrote:
cjmcallist wrote:
Dadouv47 wrote:
I don't blame the Mavs for trying to trade Doncic but damn they could have gotten so much more.

I can't believe it. Surely Presti would've paid a ransom for Luka.

A 3 team deal with AD going to OKC would have been better for OKC IMO. Doncic fit in OKC is beyond terrible.

Agree, it would be a shaky fit at first, but... ...it's Luka!

Post #2170 » by **Dadouv47** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 12:17 pm

cjmcallist wrote:
Dadouv47 wrote:
cjmcallist wrote:I can't believe it. Surely Presti would've paid a ransom for Luka.

A 3 team deal with AD going to OKC would have been better for OKC IMO. Doncic fit in OKC is beyond terrible.

Agree, it would be a shaky fit at first, but... ...it's Luka!

Yeah I get it. Two years ago I would have done it without thinking. Now that we are the favorites to go to the Finals? No way. It would have cost JDub (ok for that), all our depth and future assets.

Post #2171 » by **Dadouv47** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 1:11 pm

Glad it didn't end up being a bidding war after all. Imagine the Spurs with Wemby/Doncic...

bbms · Post #2172 » by **bbms** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 2:39 pm

Dadouv47 wrote:Glad it didn't end up being a bidding war after all. Imagine the Spurs with Wemby/Doncic...

the nba dodged a bullet

Kizz Fastfists · Post #2173 » by **Kizz Fastfists** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 8:39 pm

Dadouv47 wrote:Glad it didn't end up being a bidding war after all. Imagine the Spurs with Wemby/Doncic...

While I'm not going to disagree with Wemby/Luka being a great combo. Dallas wanted another superstar and SA couldn't have done that. I'm much less concerned about Dallas now than I was. LAL doesn't really concern me because they don't have the size to be a matchup issue. I think the path to the Finals just got as easy as possible for OKC.

Kizz Fastfists · Post #2174 » by **Kizz Fastfists** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 8:47 pm

cjmcallist wrote:I can't believe it. Surely Presti would've paid a ransom for Luka.

Dallas wanted the superstar coming back, which they got in AD. OKC would have had to give up JDub and Chet just to get the talks going with what Dallas was trying to do. Dallas might not have considered that enough star power. Does Presti do that? You would be looking at something like Chet, JDub and IH for Luka and Lively to get the salaries to work and try to give Dallas the star power they wanted in return. As good as Luka is, I wouldn't have wanted to hand Dallas JDub and Chet and have to go against that duo for the next decade unless I believe Chet is going to be out of the NBA due to injuries soon. If Presti believes that I expect Chet will get moved in the off-season after he hopefully has a healthy and highly productive playoff run.

The option is SGA for Luka. Would you do that?

bbms · Post #2175 » by **bbms** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 8:48 pm

this kind of stuff that happenned between the lakers and mavs is really shady and screams like the move to break the hearts of a fanbase before an attempt to a relocate

i do think there is a world that kyrie+ad could be a serious threat, but how about the morale? one could argue that doncic is far more valuable than both kyrie+ad from a sports business perspective. doncic is the city and now doncic is la, and now this is a long run threat.

Devilanche · Post #2176 » by **Devilanche** » Sun Feb 2, 2025 10:42 pm

Dadouv47 wrote:Glad it didn't end up being a bidding war after all. Imagine the Spurs with Wemby/Doncic...

After today , what’s stopping it being Doncic /Wemby in LA somewhere down the line ?

Post #2177 » by **Dadouv47** » Mon Feb 3, 2025 12:32 am

Devilanche wrote:
Dadouv47 wrote:Glad it didn't end up being a bidding war after all. Imagine the Spurs with Wemby/Doncic...

After today , what’s stopping it being Doncic /Wemby in LA somewhere down the line ?

The Spurs would rather trade Wemby for a 2nd round pick than trade him to LA.

Wemby doesn't care much about those big attractives cities. He doesn't fake how "simple" he's. He cares about basketball and that's it.

Could he end up one day in LA? Sure, but our title window will likely be over by then except if Presti can draft a stud every season.

Post #2178 » by **Dadouv47** » Mon Feb 3, 2025 12:40 am

Kizz Fastfists wrote:
Dadouv47 wrote:Glad it didn't end up being a bidding war after all. Imagine the Spurs with Wemby/Doncic...

While I'm not going to disagree with Wemby/Luka being a great combo. Dallas wanted another superstar and SA couldn't have done that. I'm much less concerned about Dallas now than I was. LAL doesn't really concern me because they don't have the size to be a matchup issue. I think the path to the Finals just got as easy as possible for OKC.

I think we need to wait a bit for LA because they are likely going to make a trade before the deadline to add some size.

I read some mixed feelings about the Mavs trade for OKC but I personnally really hate it for us. It will come down to whether Irving can be that guy offensively without another guard next to him...so far he's doing well without Luka.

I do think that Mavs GM tried to make the best team for this postseason run and believe they have a better shot of beating OKC/Celtics with AD instead of Luka. He probably made the worst trade of the last 20 years but that's another story.

Devilanche · Post #2179 » by **Devilanche** » Mon Feb 3, 2025 12:57 am

Dadouv47 wrote:
Devilanche wrote:
Dadouv47 wrote:Glad it didn't end up being a bidding war after all. Imagine the Spurs with Wemby/Doncic...

After today , what’s stopping it being Doncic /Wemby in LA somewhere down the line ?

The Spurs would rather trade Wemby for a 2nd round pick than trade him to LA.

Wemby doesn't care much about those big attractives cities. He doesn't fake how "simple" he's. He cares about basketball and that's it.

Could he end up one day in LA? Sure, but our title window will likely be over by then except if Presti can draft a stud every season.

Newly drafted KD , RFA KD and UFA KD have very different thoughts , pretty likely wemby would as well over his different life stage

Post #2180 » by **Dadouv47** » Mon Feb 3, 2025 1:02 am

Devilanche wrote:
Dadouv47 wrote:
Devilanche wrote:After today , what’s stopping it being Doncic /Wemby in LA somewhere down the line ?

The Spurs would rather trade Wemby for a 2nd round pick than trade him to LA.

Wemby doesn't care much about those big attractives cities. He doesn't fake how "simple" he's. He cares about basketball and that's it.

Could he end up one day in LA? Sure, but our title window will likely be over by then except if Presti can draft a stud every season.

Newly drafted KD , RFA KD and UFA KD have very different thoughts , pretty likely wemby would as well over his different life stage

I mean yeah but this is in a looooong time... bot even sure Luka gonna still be this elite by then.

Spurs didn't want to trade prime Kawhi to LA...don't know why they would do it differently with Wemby.