Trade for Love?

[kmgarnett21]

Greetings Nuggets fans. I wanted to gauge your interest in the following trade idea. Would you do it? What tweaks would you make for the basis of the trade? (All assuming Love is healthy, of course. Or do the trade once Love is back healthy, or in the offseason) Etc...


Kevin Love and JJ Barea

for

Danillo Gallinari, Kenneth Faried and Corey Brewer


Why for Denver: They get a legit star to pair with Lawson and Iguodala. Love is the top double-double player in the NBA. I think he would fit in nicely with Lawson and Iggy. You also get Barea, who can pair with Andre Miller off the bench to form a nice backcourt duo. He also has championship experience.

Lawson/A. Miller
Iguodala/Barea
Chandler/Q. Miller/Hamilton
Love/Randolph
Koufos/McGee/Mozgov

Why for MINN: Love seems to be on his way out eventually. They get an athletic, high-energy F in Faried, a sharp shooter with solid athleticism in Gallo and a rotational G/F in Brewer. I think all 3 would fit well in Adelman's system and all 3 would be ideal pieces next to Rubio and Pekovic.

Rubio/Shved
Ridnour/Budinger/Brewer
AK/Gallinari/Brewer
Faried/Williams/Dante
Pek/Dante/Johnson

[eathb_au]

I'm unsure about this since he misses a lot of games. If healthy it would be an easy choice.

[pickIBL]

You can't play the what if game. Brewer is gone this summer but the FO needs to make sure they get an extension done with Faried when he is eligible. I think in past threads it has been explained just how unique Gallinari is and what all he does for us on both sides of the ball.

I remember watching Faried outta Morehead in the tourney and I knew he was going to rise up the board and into a Nuggets uniform. I was saying it since that March and just that happened. Since then Faried has shown just how special he is. It makes no sense to move him. Ken's PER is actually a bit higher than Love's.

No disrespect to love but we got a good thing going here with Faried and I say ride that wave.

[The Rebel]

I think I would do this trade, if it did not include the Berea for Brewer part, I hate Berea's game and would not want to take his contract for the next 3 years, even if it meant turning down the rest of the deal.

[Yoga]

Remove Barea from that trade and insert Ricky Rubio. If not, you can always trade Rubio to Toronto

[the plan]

I do not think Love would want to play here. Small market team just like Minnesota.

[darivo]

are you serious?

Kirilenko starting over Gallo (actual Gallo)?



the only trade that i would make will involving:

Lawson/André

And/or

McGee

And/or

Iggy

[Maf]

To be honest this trade is good. BUT!

All-star caliber player, Top 3 player on his position. But his health uncertain.

For our two most beloved players...

So basically it's brain against heart.

And btw- SF rotation with Chandler, Hamilton and Quincy makes me shocked. Q.Miller wouldn't start on most Euro-cup teams.

[Powder Blue]

I think I would do this trade, if it did not include the Berea for Brewer part, I hate Berea's game and would not want to take his contract for the next 3 years, even if it meant turning down the rest of the deal.

You'd make this trade right now? Give up the chance at the 4-6 seed? If he wasn't injured I'd say yes, since he is I'd say no.

[eathb_au]

I wouldn't do this trade this season, but in the offseason I'd definitely consider it.

Would need to check Love thoroughly though, injuries are a killer for this team.

[The Rebel]

I think I would do this trade, if it did not include the Berea for Brewer part, I hate Berea's game and would not want to take his contract for the next 3 years, even if it meant turning down the rest of the deal.

You'd make this trade right now? Give up the chance at the 4-6 seed? If he wasn't injured I'd say yes, since he is I'd say no.

Yes I would make this trade right now, personally I am tired of this team being one and done and right now I do not see this team being more then that right now. Especially given the lack of outside shooting, and the way some of the guys have been so inconsistent for the road games. So if I could get assurances from Love that he wants to be in Denver long term then I do the deal.

[pickIBL]

I think you can discuss a Love deal only when he is healthy. Gotta come back and prove you can play at a high level. Plus I think this current asking price is too high. Chandler isn't healthy enough to let Gallinari go with Faried. If they wanna talk about Iggy, McGee, and Chandler I'd listen to moving those guys.

I'd much rather move McGee for KG or something... especially if the idea is win now. I argue that we don't really need McGee. We can position ourselves in this draft to take a center. I'd say for about 3 years/ 10-15 million total we could sign 7-0 greek center Bourousis this summer. I think he's probably backed off his MLE demands to the Spurs a little bit. Still the best center in Europe but I don't think he'd demand quite as much cash.

We could also send our two 2nd rounders to Utah if a buyout (and I think it could for around a million) can be reached for Ante Tomic. His team is loaded with former NBA guys that has underpeformed so I suspect they'll be ready to cash in on their one nice piece in Barcelona.

So in the short term we could snag KG plus go out and get his future replacement over the summer.

[kmgarnett21]

It's not like Love has a history of injuries. He's just had bad luck this one year with a stupid freak hand incident.

Like you all, I'm HUGE fans of Gallo and Faried. They are two of my favorite players in the league. So no disrespect from me in suggesting this trade. I was just trying to gauge the feedback on if this would be a fair exchange: two solid starters for an all star, double double machine.



And to the person who basically proclaimed I was crazy for having AK over Gallo in the starting lineup, I was thinking more along the lines of Gallo being a super sub and helping carry the second unit. Or you can move AK to PF, start Gallo and have Faried off the bench as a super sub, so unbundle your panties. Lol.

[pickIBL]

When watching Faried at Morehead it was in some ways a step back in time. There is some Rodman in Faried and I'd absolutely hate to see him leave. Morehead isn't exactly SE Oklahoma St but it is a pretty small school.

I could just see it... Faried gets traded to some team that needs him. They give him 36 to 40 minutes a night. He starts or gets close to leading the league in rebounding... maybe 16.5 PPG, 14-15 RPG, 1.5 bpg on 55% from the field. Then he goes out and gets a bad blonde dye job.

Don't trade this guy. A year or two in the front court with KG could do this guy good. I like how players go and spend time with The Dream in the summer. Faried ought to go hang out with Rodman & Unseld. Seriously hang on to this fella. In a few years who knows just how good he could be for us.

Rodman really didn't get the minutes until he was like 29 or 30. Started in the NBA at like 24 or 25... Faried is 23.

[kmgarnett21]

I agree, but I don't think I'd want Faried "hanging out" with Rodman...lol

[Powder Blue]

I think I would do this trade, if it did not include the Berea for Brewer part, I hate Berea's game and would not want to take his contract for the next 3 years, even if it meant turning down the rest of the deal.

You'd make this trade right now? Give up the chance at the 4-6 seed? If he wasn't injured I'd say yes, since he is I'd say no.

Yes I would make this trade right now, personally I am tired of this team being one and done and right now I do not see this team being more then that right now. Especially given the lack of outside shooting, and the way some of the guys have been so inconsistent for the road games. So if I could get assurances from Love that he wants to be in Denver long term then I do the deal.

Adding Love def makes us better but we'd still need a shooter. To move past one and done i think a coaching change is required.

[pickIBL]

I agree, but I don't think I'd want Faried "hanging out" with Rodman...lol

In the gym man in the gym... well then maybe out to a drag show or something fun

[nugzin2040]

Like others have said, it would hurt a lot to trade Faried from a "heart" perspective. He'd make us pay for the next 8-10 years.

Big issue I have with the deal is Love could decide to leave after the 2015 season. We're only looking at a 2 year window here. I think Denver would need some form of verbal assurances from Love that he planned to stick around past that, to consider the deal.

[DenverNugs]

If I would trade everyone on the team and could only keep one player it would be Faried. He's only 23 and a future all-star in my eye.

[DenverNugs]

If I would trade everyone on the team and could only keep one player it would be Faried. He's only 23 and a future all-star in my eye.