Ice Man wrote:MrSparkle wrote:What a wild surprise. Trade watch:
Davis, Klay, Gafford, PJ, D’Lo
Sabonis, Lavine, Demar, Schroder, Westbrook
JJJ, Morant
Zion
Klay, Schroder, and Russ are 15th men. No reason for a contender to get one of them. The rest of the guys can be useful, although of course AD, Ja, and Zion have availability issues, to put the matter mildly.
The only players I'd be keen on is AD, Gafford and JJJ.
JJJ I don't think they will trade, even if they decide to rebuild. AD is on the older side, and his inability to stay healthy is not going to get better as he gets older. Which leaves Gafford, but even he has his own injury concerns, but he is on a relatively decent contract despite it being a little long.
The only way I'd make a play for Gafford though is a straight swap with Vuc, and to be fair, we probably would lose more than we gain at least in the short term, because despite Vuc's deficiencies on the defensive end, he is generally always healthy and ready to play, he is an important hub to our defense, and is a 3 point threat. Whereas Gafford will be suited to play at a high speed, and bring a defensive presences. We'd basically have him and Collins playing a similar role for our team, and the hope is that both can stay healthy enough when the season matters.
All the other players are a hard pass, and that includes Zion and I was actually advocating to trade for him this off season. But he is just never going to stay healthy, and with Giddey becoming our best player, it negates a strength of Zion being a ball handler and making plays. And none of the above is really factoring how we'd acquire any of these players based on matching salaries and whether we have the right type of offer to seal the deal.
