Free Agent/Trade/Waiver Thread, 2025-26, part 2

[Hal14]

Bol Bol & Markelle Fultz are still free agents

That same sentence could have been posted at pretty much any time in the past 3 years and it would be true

[Curmudgeon]

DeAndre Jordan, Alex Len and Tristan Kardashian are available.

[djFan71]

Bol Bol & Markelle Fultz are still free agents

That same sentence could have been posted at pretty much any time in the past 3 years and it would be true

Remember when people couldn't believe we let Bol Bol slip through our fingers?

[djFan71]

Just cuz it's been a while and the season hasn't officially started, lol

BOS: Gafford, J Carter
CHI: Baylor, Simons
DAL: White, Phillips (or other really small $ filler)

CHI obviously needs some picks. Couple 2nds from us, a first from DAL????


Cs get another rotation big to backup Queta and push Garza down to 3rd string where he should be. Get a 3rd string PG in Carter.
DAL gets scoring/some creation.
Bulls get picks.

[redslastlaugh]

Annnd ...

we're back!

Just cuz it's been a while and the season hasn't officially started, lol

BOS: Gafford, J Carter
CHI: Baylor, Simons
DAL: White, Phillips (or other really small $ filler)

CHI obviously needs some picks. Couple 2nds from us, a first from DAL????


Cs get another rotation big to backup Queta and push Garza down to 3rd string where he should be. Get a 3rd string PG in Carter.
DAL gets scoring/some creation.
Bulls get picks.

[djFan71]

Annnd ...

we're back!

Just cuz it's been a while and the season hasn't officially started, lol

BOS: Gafford, J Carter
CHI: Baylor, Simons
DAL: White, Phillips (or other really small $ filler)

CHI obviously needs some picks. Couple 2nds from us, a first from DAL????


Cs get another rotation big to backup Queta and push Garza down to 3rd string where he should be. Get a 3rd string PG in Carter.
DAL gets scoring/some creation.
Bulls get picks.

I can keep this one in my back pocket all the way til Feb!

[zoyathedestroya]

Horford made a mistake.

Not with leaving the Celtics. That’s understandable, even forgivable.

But why join the aging Warriors instead of OKC, Nuggets, or even the Rockets??

He’s gonna get destroyed by the bigs in the West, playing center 95% of the time.

[Hal14]

Horford made a mistake.

Not with leaving the Celtics. That’s understandable, even forgivable.

But why join the aging Warriors instead of OKC, Nuggets, or even the Rockets??

He’s gonna get destroyed by the bigs in the West, playing center 95% of the time.

The only 1 of those teams that had any reported interest in signing Al was Denver. But on Denver he probably would have just been Jokic's backup..would have had a lesser role with Jokic and Gordon playing heavy mins ahead of him.

Plus Denver went and got Valanciunas instead so they no longer had a need.

Better weather in GS, bigger role and probably more $ too.

Warriors are aging but after they traded for Butler I think they had like best record in the league..Butler, Steph and Draymond is a pretty formidable big 3 along with Al and other good players like Hield, Podz, etc. They have a bunch of vets all teaming up for 1 more shot at a ring. I get it.

They're at least going for it. Al saw Tatum in a boot and then Jrue and KP traded so it was understandable he figured we probably weren't gonna win a ring this year..

[Fierce1]

Al will be like Jason Terry joining the Cs in 2012-13.

It will not end well for Al and GSW.

Injuries will be what will doom GSW.

[bisme37]

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[BigTrade92]

Dinwiddie would be perfect guard depth if he was willing to sign here for the min.

Besides White and Pritchard, I'm not sold on anyone else even bringing the ball up the court...

Gonzalez is a growth spurt away from being shifted into a forward and Simons (who's likely gone by the deadline anyways) has such a lazy handle and got pickpocketed a few times in the pre-season when pressed.

[Parliament10]

Read on Twitter

Wow, Waived. -- Is he declining that much?

[Hal14]

Dinwiddie would be perfect guard depth if he was willing to sign here for the min.

Besides White and Pritchard, I'm not sold on anyone else even bringing the ball up the court...

Gonzalez is a growth spurt away from being shifted into a forward and Simons (who's likely gone by the deadline anyways) has such a lazy handle and got pickpocketed a few times in the pre-season when pressed.

Simons has already been in the league for 7 years..playing a good chunk of the time at PG..often times he started at PG in Portland, even after they drafted Scoot with the 3rd pick. As a guy who would be like 3rd in line for PG duties, he's fine.

Plus we have JB who has plenty of experience bringing the ball up the floor.

We're at 14 guys on the roster now and are unlikely to sign anyone to the 15th spot, for $ saving and flexibility reasons.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dinwiddie's next stop is overseas somewhere. Charlotte was one of the only teams who actually needed a backup PG and they cut him..

[BigTrade92]

Dinwiddie would be perfect guard depth if he was willing to sign here for the min.

Besides White and Pritchard, I'm not sold on anyone else even bringing the ball up the court...

Gonzalez is a growth spurt away from being shifted into a forward and Simons (who's likely gone by the deadline anyways) has such a lazy handle and got pickpocketed a few times in the pre-season when pressed.

Simons has already been in the league for 7 years..playing a good chunk of the time at PG..often times he started at PG in Portland, even after they drafted Scoot with the 3rd pick. As a guy who would be like 3rd in line for PG duties, he's fine.

Plus we have JB who has plenty of experience bringing the ball up the floor.

We're at 14 guys on the roster now and are unlikely to sign anyone to the 15th spot, for $ saving and flexibility reasons.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dinwiddie's next stop is overseas somewhere. Charlotte was one of the only teams who actually needed a backup PG and they cut him..

I'm not sold on Simons being a ball dominant guy for this team, but I don't think he'll end up sticking around Boston long enough to even find out.

But with Brogdon just retiring, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see the Knicks snag Dinwiddie to replace him. Seems like a good fit over in New York, with previous experience down the road in Brooklyn.

[redslastlaugh]

Annnd ...

we're back!

Just cuz it's been a while and the season hasn't officially started, lol

BOS: Gafford, J Carter
CHI: Baylor, Simons
DAL: White, Phillips (or other really small $ filler)

CHI obviously needs some picks. Couple 2nds from us, a first from DAL????


Cs get another rotation big to backup Queta and push Garza down to 3rd string where he should be. Get a 3rd string PG in Carter.
DAL gets scoring/some creation.
Bulls get picks.

I can keep this one in my back pocket all the way til Feb!

Honestly, this seems like a pretty good idea. If we can pair seconds with Carter in a followup trade into an exception, taking no $$ back, and upgrade Amari or Shulga to a rookie min at $1.27, we'd be under the tax and mission accomplished: under the tax and a reasonably paid starting center

The problem is Brad is pretty devoted to his spacing bigs, does he want to invest in Gafford?
And are we picking up Scheierman's 3rd year option. Sheierman has looked so lousy and is so old, would he be a negative contract if we guaranteed him for next year?
I think Phillips still has some potential as a Trevor Ariza type of 3-D playable wing, maybe Bulls giving up a touch too much
Is Daniel Gafford trade eligible right now or does he have to wait to Dec or Jan 15 after signing an extension?

We're also running pretty low on 2nds. We have the pretty good one next year, the "best of" out of four teams, including the Pels, but after that, I think we are down to maybe 2 or 3 tradeable seconds over the future 7 yr window...

edit: we have two 2nds in 2026, "worst of" CLE/BOS in '31, and BOS in '32 ... and that's it for the 2nd round picks

Just sucks that Baylor is looking so subpar, not just because he'd have some trade value if he was playing better, but that there were 10 guys taken after him that look like they're gonna be better and the depth of that year's second round (despite the crap 2024 lottery) is actually looking very strong... IF we missed on the pick, that's just a bummer, we coulda atleast traded back and added seconds if we are just gonnna strike out

But as to the basic idea... Gafford coming in with a chance to move Jevon Carter into space and drop under the tax... Print it out & send to Zarren! lol

[bisme37]

Read on Twitter

Wow, Waived. -- Is he declining that much?

He looked fine to me last season but I dunno. Seems like a good fit for us if the team wants to waive Walsh (or someone else) and give him a minimum. Can handle the ball and always seems to make a really annoying shot or two when we play against him.

[bisme37]

Dinwiddie would be perfect guard depth if he was willing to sign here for the min.

Besides White and Pritchard, I'm not sold on anyone else even bringing the ball up the court...

Gonzalez is a growth spurt away from being shifted into a forward and Simons (who's likely gone by the deadline anyways) has such a lazy handle and got pickpocketed a few times in the pre-season when pressed.

Simons has already been in the league for 7 years..playing a good chunk of the time at PG..often times he started at PG in Portland, even after they drafted Scoot with the 3rd pick. As a guy who would be like 3rd in line for PG duties, he's fine.

Plus we have JB who has plenty of experience bringing the ball up the floor.

We're at 14 guys on the roster now and are unlikely to sign anyone to the 15th spot, for $ saving and flexibility reasons.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dinwiddie's next stop is overseas somewhere. Charlotte was one of the only teams who actually needed a backup PG and they cut him..

I'm not sold on Simons being a ball dominant guy for this team, but I don't think he'll end up sticking around Boston long enough to even find out.

But with Brogdon just retiring, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see the Knicks snag Dinwiddie to replace him. Seems like a good fit over in New York, with previous experience down the road in Brooklyn.

I think the Knicks already had a roster crunch and were having to choose between Brogdon and Landry Shamet before the season starts. So Brogdon's retirement solved that for them, and I don't think they have room for Dinwiddie now.

[djFan71]

Annnd ...

we're back!

I can keep this one in my back pocket all the way til Feb!

Honestly, this seems like a pretty good idea. If we can pair seconds with Carter in a followup trade into an exception, taking no $$ back, and upgrade Amari or Shulga to a rookie min at $1.27, we'd be under the tax and mission accomplished: under the tax and a reasonably paid starting center

The problem is Brad is pretty devoted to his spacing bigs, does he want to invest in Gafford?
And are we picking up Scheierman's 3rd year option. Sheierman has looked so lousy and is so old, would he be a negative contract if we guaranteed him for next year?
I think Phillips still has some potential as a Trevor Ariza type of 3-D playable wing, maybe Bulls giving up a touch too much
Is Daniel Gafford trade eligible right now or does he have to wait to Dec or Jan 15 after signing an extension?

We're also running pretty low on 2nds. We have the pretty good one next year, the "best of" out of four teams, including the Pels, but after that, I think we are down to maybe 2 or 3 tradeable seconds over the future 7 yr window...

edit: we have two 2nds in 2026, "worst of" CLE/BOS in '31, and BOS in '32 ... and that's it for the 2nd round picks

Just sucks that Baylor is looking so subpar, not just because he'd have some trade value if he was playing better, but that there were 10 guys taken after him that look like they're gonna be better and the depth of that year's second round (despite the crap 2024 lottery) is actually looking very strong... IF we missed on the pick, that's just a bummer, we coulda atleast traded back and added seconds if we are just gonnna strike out

But as to the basic idea... Gafford coming in with a chance to move Jevon Carter into space and drop under the tax... Print it out & send to Zarren! lol

All good points. DAL may not want to pay a first on top of Gaff either. And CHI probably thinks they can be a playoff team even though they shouldn't. I like the basis, but could use some refinement.

Re Gaff: Eligible now since his extension was below some magic % increase, iirc. I don't think lack of spacing in a rotation big is a huge deal. Last year Neemy and Luke didn't. Obviously, ideal if he could, but not disqualifying that he doesn't. His extension $ is just about the range where you start to worry about it for a backup, though.

Baylor probably has some "take a flier / 2nd draft" value. Not positive / not negative. I'm not quite as down on him as some are, but I also think he's redundant with our other wings and not enough of a ballhander / creator to separate a different enough role from them, so he's expendable.

Carter could be worth keeping. Gives you options either way. If JT is looking like a post ASB return and the team is doing OK standings wise, screw the tax and keep him as a 3rd string PG. If not, dump (him) & duck (tax).

[celtxman]

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Wow, Waived. -- Is he declining that much?

I think he's still OK. Consider the source -Charlotte. Knicks may have interest after Brogdan retired.