I care about helping us first and foremost. And that likely means moving Grant. Where he goes from there is strictly highest bidder for me. Don't care who else he hurts or helps.
Monitoring teams that are struggling early that may want grant. Denver, but they don’t have assets. Miami? Philadelphia? LAL if they start losing?
Milwaukee, for Middleton gets the salary matching there. They have young recent picks from this season in AJ Johnson and Tyler Smith, both 19. They have no 2nds, and only a '31 1st I doubt they move. But maybe if they were desperate
Many teams like Philly don't have salary to match, in December some offseason signings trade restrictions will end But then we'll probably hear we should wait until January until all the restrictions end Then we will hear we should wait until the February deadline in case offers go up Then when nothing is done we'll hear that the draft will be a better time, then free agency, then summer league, then training camp, and then we'll come full circle to this point next year with all our overpaid useless vets still sitting here. I just pray we don't overpay Ant or Ayton with some stupid huge extensions. If we cant find a trade for any of our vets just let them walk after next season.
December 15th once Max Christie can be traded heres a Lakers trade that lets them keep all of DeAngelo, Hachimura, and Kneckt. We get their two picks. Hacimura as a 6th man along with Knecht+Hayes off the bench is a pretty deep team. I'd think we'd want them to be near a HCA record to be willing to pull the trigger.
Whoever has the best assets. MIL and DEN have none, unfortunately. LAL has but I doubt Lebron wants JG. I would prefer Joe to take back young *semi-proven* talent and one decent FRP.
I'm intrigued by New Orleans. They're underperforming and supposedly they want to move Ingram because he wants a full max.
But Ingram is better than Grant and they have Murphy and Jones on the wings, don't wanna lock in to 4 years of Jerami
True, but they're looking at losing him for nothing this summer and nobody wants to pay the guy a max deal, so why would they give them something valuable? They gotta do something.
So Pelicans 'spend' 2 first for a worse player, just so they don't loose Ingram for nothing??? You logic makes absolutely no sense... Given those choices, they would be much better off letting BI just walk.
I still think it's the Lakers. We get: Rui Hachimura to flip, we take Vincent and Reddish to waive. They send us a 2029 swap with no protections, they get the worst of our pick, Boston's, Milwaukee's and their own. They also send us a top 3 protected 2030 FRP which rolls to 2031 if in the top 3 and is top 3 protected again but if it lands in the top 3 both in 2030 and 2031 then we get their 2031 second round pick. They get: Grant This trade begs the question, what playoff team could most use Rui?
I saw a Grant proposal for Middleton + a young prospect package that I liked as a bare minimum offer, and I’d expect their ‘31 1st top 10 protected that turns into multiple 2nds if not conveyed as well.
They're pretty comparable. Ingram is younger but he wants a full max contract. Grant is locked in for the next 4 years at reasonable rate compared to Ingram. If they want to win now, which maybe they don't anymore. Zion has looked mediocre. CJ is.... CJ. But losing BI for nothing would be bad.
