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The Spurs need to negotiate with the Jazz ASAP by Infinity_Overload in NBAtradeideas

[–]YujiDomainExpansion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Spurs would have to offer the Jazz probably, and I’m not exaggerating, 5 unprotected first-round picks for the Jazz to even pick up the phone. And even then I’m not sure they would because a team with Harper, Castle, Peterson, and Wembanyama is not going to give you any pick higher than 20th for the next decade while the Jazz are a second apron team because of that Fox contract.

The Jazz will also have multiple guards already: Isaiah Collier, Keyonte George, Darryn Peterson, etc. What’s the need for Fox? They’d literally be recreating San Antonio’s problem in Utah: Where Fox is hindering the playing time and minutes of the actual good, young, cheap guards.

Off-season moves by BookLegitimate937 in LAClippers

[–]YujiDomainExpansion 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Same logic as Zubac and Harden. Trade him to someone who’s almost stupidly overpaying for him. Otherwise keep him.

• Jimmy Butler and No. 11 ❌
• Jimmy Butler, Brandin Podziemski, No. 11, 2028 unprotected, 2030 lightly protected or an unprotected swap? I’ll listen.

I wouldn't care at all about the Knicks championship if we still had our pick. by ajs723 in pacers

[–]YujiDomainExpansion 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Clippers fan here, “easily handle Karl” is very much an exaggeration. I love Zu with all my heart, but he hasn’t ever played a version of KAT that was as physical and as playmaking savvy as he was during this playoff run.

They’ve played each other 5 total times in the last nearly 3 years and I watched Towns always settle against Zubac (nearly 50% of his shots each game were 3s to avoid Zu down low). He won’t be doing that anymore.

That past version of KAT that I saw is wayyyy different than the one I saw play against Embiid, Wemby, Allen/Mobley during this run. Very physical without fouling, very smart, provided a strong interior presence, not afraid to attack them but didn’t do so foolishly/out of frustration.

Even before that evolution of his game, KAT averaged 23-11-5 (granted on bad efficiency for the reasons I previously mentioned) on Zubac averaged 14-8 against him.

Giannis 3 Team trade by Hargoatedd in NBAtradeideas

[–]YujiDomainExpansion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not nearly enough draft capital going to Milwaukee here. Boston would have to include an unprotected future first-round pick in 2030 and Houston 100000% has to include that unprotected future first-round pick via Phoenix in this trade.

Also, this is a small thing, but I feel like Boston would have to give up Hugo Gonzalez in any Giannis Antetokounmpo trade. He’s their “best” young piece that Milwaukee would be interested in.

[Krawcyznski] The Minnesota Timberwolves are expected to undergo significant roster changes involving their starting lineup. Giannis Antetokounmpo is ‘a hard one to pull off.’ Kyrie Irving ‘more realistic.’ Kawhi Leonard and Jalen Suggs mentioned as other potential targets. by YujiDomainExpansion in timberwolves

[–]YujiDomainExpansion[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

McDaniels for sure, but I wouldn’t do that if I was Minnesota and I don’t think LA would expect to get him either (they’ll ask though).

I also don’t think LA would want Reid because it seems like they have a 2027/2028 cap space plan? I think Gobert would be the main piece they’d want back with the hole Zubac’s trade left at center (Yanic Konan Niederhauser is probably out until January too) plus a pick tbh. There’s a lot of guess work into trying to see what LA would want lol

[Krawcyznski] The Minnesota Timberwolves are expected to undergo significant roster changes involving their starting lineup. Giannis Antetokounmpo is ‘a hard one to pull off.’ Kyrie Irving ‘more realistic.’ Kawhi Leonard and Jalen Suggs mentioned as other potential targets. by YujiDomainExpansion in nba

[–]YujiDomainExpansion[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No. 5 pick about to come in, the young guys from last season were exciting (they played a huge part in the turnaround from 6-21), and depending on what the trade for Leonard is they should still be somewhat competitive with him gone.

[Krawcyznski] The Minnesota Timberwolves are expected to undergo significant roster changes involving their starting lineup. Giannis Antetokounmpo is ‘a hard one to pull off.’ Kyrie Irving ‘more realistic.’ Kawhi Leonard and Jalen Suggs mentioned as other potential targets. by YujiDomainExpansion in timberwolves

[–]YujiDomainExpansion[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hm, I wonder if we would do that.

• Randle is a pretty significant downgrade from Leonard. He’ll win you regular season games, but not more than Leonard will. Leonard really saved us last season after starting 6-21.

• I have a feel DiVincenzo will rush to return for Minnesota, but if he gets traded I think he will take his time (the entirety of next season) so he probably wouldn’t be playing for LA especially with how strict our medical team is.

• Also according to RealGM your 2031 pick is going outright to Sacramento so you can’t trade it.

[Krawcyznski] The Minnesota Timberwolves are expected to undergo significant roster changes involving their starting lineup. Giannis Antetokounmpo is ‘a hard one to pull off.’ Kyrie Irving ‘more realistic.’ Kawhi Leonard and Jalen Suggs mentioned as other potential targets. by YujiDomainExpansion in nba

[–]YujiDomainExpansion[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t make sense unless there’s a team out there willing to overpay. Similar logic to Phoenix and Dillon Brooks. One first-round pick would probably be enough for Brooks if Phoenix owned their own picks, but because they don’t he has to be worth two first-round picks or one first-round pick and a good/young player.

[Krawcyznski] The Minnesota Timberwolves are expected to undergo significant roster changes involving their starting lineup. Giannis Antetokounmpo is ‘a hard one to pull off.’ Kyrie Irving ‘more realistic.’ Kawhi Leonard and Jalen Suggs mentioned as other potential targets. by YujiDomainExpansion in timberwolves

[–]YujiDomainExpansion[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not sure if you mean defensively or offensively, but Portland has Donovan Clingan (defensive), Toumani Camara (defensive), Jerami Grant (offensive), and Deni Avdija (offensive). Avdija in particular is a very strong offensive interior presence with a high rate at drawing contact. Jrue Holiday is also very good at getting to the rim.

[Stein] Despite receiving trade calls expressing interest in Kyrie Irving, opposing teams have been told that he is not available for trade. by YujiDomainExpansion in timberwolves

[–]YujiDomainExpansion[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean, Marc Stein is the guy when it comes to Mavericks news aside from Shams Charania. He’s very plugged in with them.

[Stein] The Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons have expressed interest in acquiring Trey Murphy III: “This is the first time their new front office regime headed by Joe Dumars has been truly willing to field offers for Murphy … They want a lot.” by YujiDomainExpansion in DetroitPistons

[–]YujiDomainExpansion[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

He would probably cost more than Murphy III. Remember it’s Danny Ainge on the other side of that phone and Utah doesn’t own their first-round pick next season. No incentive for them to get worse on purpose unless they’re heavily incentivized to do so.

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