payitforward wrote:I have no interest in either Caris Lavert or Spencer Dinwiddie (innovative entrepreneur tho he seems to be). They are similar in having had a couple of good years followed by volume shooting & a decline in their numbers/percentages (points went up of course).
I'd love to have Allen, naturally, but he is not a return for Beal.
If this is anything more than a rumor (reflecting something Brooklyn would like to do), I'll be shocked. If it were to happen, Brooklyn would have to get another team involved; somehow it'd have to be structured so that we mostly took back high R1 picks.
Would be really weird; I find it hard to believe.
I kinda like both Dinwiddie and Lavert, but... I'd be really hesitant to trade for either one. Lavert's getting paid an average of 17.5 mil per year for the next 3 seasons - that's too much for an injury-prone wing who's never really excelled, and I don't trust Dinwiddie trying to change the compensation system while being a stat accumulator who can't make 3's. I'd stay away from both of them. I do like Allen, but he'll be a free agent after this season and doesn't have a lot of trade value.