2025-26 Season News & Discussion

[Mr Puddles]

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As king shared above, Sabonis although intruiging, would take quite a bit ( of much we don't even have) to get. And even though we do need help to pick up the load during times of injury to Booker and/ or J Green, I'm not sure we have the salaries to make a deal work.

And we definitely don't have the draft assets either for what they'd be asking for in return.

Is sabonis well suited to play PF though? I don't like the idea of moving Williams for him.

[NapoleonII]

He can’t defend in space, shoot the 3 consistently, or really defend the rim, and seems to need the ball.

No thanks.

Give me Williams / Royce + likely Green attacking the rim all day over this career mid center.

[Ghost of Kleine]

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Does anyone else see what this guy is seeing in this 6'6 guard prospect? Could he be a 2nd round target for us to consider.

[Saberestar]

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[Qwigglez]

Sabonis for Green and Richards works financially. Suns are a bit more balanced and not so guard heavy. I believe Sabonis doesn't like playing center that much anyway, so keeping Mark Williams is key here.

Gillespie / Goodwin / Bouyea
Booker / Allen / Brea
Brooks / Dunn / Fleming
Sabonis / Royce / Hayes-Davis
Williams / Oso / Maluach

[sunsbg]

Sabonis and Booker are 29yo. Brooks too. Allen and Royce early 30s. Green is a lot younger, but there is some redundancy with him and Booker. I'm not sure which direction FO prefers - staying younger or filling a greater need to balance current roster. Ultimately Ott is the person to tell if Sabonis fits well in his system.

[TeamTragic]

Sabonis for Green and Richards works financially. Suns are a bit more balanced and not so guard heavy. I believe Sabonis doesn't like playing center that much anyway, so keeping Mark Williams is key here.

Gillespie / Goodwin / Bouyea
Booker / Allen / Brea
Brooks / Dunn / Fleming
Sabonis / Royce / Hayes-Davis
Williams / Oso / Maluach

I have no clue why we would trade Green. I would keep him over Booker.

I would however make Booker available and see what he fetches on the open market.

[sunskerr]

Sabonis is such a crap fit for any team in the modern NBA. I agree he'd be best at PF but the spacing is just horrendous if he doesn't play 5 and this year having shooters at 1-4 has been tremendous for us (39.3 3PA for 9th in the league at 36.6% at 11th). Booker isn't a volume 3 point guy either which is a bad fit with Sabonis unless Booker wants to start taking more 3s (which he should, provided you expect his 31% 3P% to regress to his career 35%).

There's also the uh, defensive issues being added to our team that has built its entire identity off adopting the same principles the Thunder used to revolutionize defense last year (ok, fine, it's built off hustle).

Like Sunsbg said if Ott likes him then ok, fine.