Exclusive Official 2018 Trade Deadline Thread

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I can see Vonleh being dumped for nothing but tax relief, and maybe Shabazz for a second rounder, or maybe there's a taker for Harkless, but I really don't think the Blazers are going to be all that interested in taking on salary, and I also doubt Olshey and Allen are willing to part with draft capital just to dump some of the bad contracts.
 
This is pretty much the only CJ trade that I like. Gotta hope the Cavs do something dumb:

3-way with Sac, Cle, and Por

Sac gets IT and Shump
Cle gets CJ, George Hill, Aminu, and Davis
Por gets Love, Tristan Thompson (or JR Smith whichever they want to rid themselves of), and the Brooklyn pick

I think Hill and CJ would be a really nice compliment to each other. They are an absolute dumpster fire right now and a trade like this gets a bunch of the malcontents off their team and gives them a really solid lineup.

Starters: Hill, CJ, Crowder, LeBron, and Frye (or Thompson if they kept him instead of JR)
Bench: JR (or Frye if Thompson is still starting), Rose, Aminu, Davis, Korver, Jeff Green
That seems like a pretty nice upgrade to me. Even when LeBron leaves they’d still have Hill and CJ to build around.

The Cavs probably wouldn’t do it but it’s fun to think about. Maybe LeBron chewing out their GM will change things.
If we get TT every Blazer highlight package will start with a shot of Chewbacca sitting in the stands, no thanks.
 
CJ/2nd rounder for Love/BKN pick

That’s the only non Lebron trade I do with Clev, unless they wanna include Shump for Hark too, and I only do that cause Shump has 1 less year on his deal.

I posted that 2 for 2 yesterday and it works in the trade machine.
 
CJ/2nd rounder for Love/BKN pick

That’s the only non Lebron trade I do with Clev, unless they wanna include Shump for Hark too, and I only do that cause Shump has 1 less year on his deal.

I posted that 2 for 2 yesterday and it works in the trade machine.

Right now that's the 8th pick in the draft.

Frankly, I'd rather see if we could do CJ for Middleton/Parker.
 
CJ/2nd rounder for Love/BKN pick

That’s the only non Lebron trade I do with Clev, unless they wanna include Shump for Hark too, and I only do that cause Shump has 1 less year on his deal.

I posted that 2 for 2 yesterday and it works in the trade machine.

Cavs won't do that though, they'd need more back. Taking on JR or TT would make it more realistic.
 
Right now that's the 8th pick in the draft.

Frankly, I'd rather see if we could do CJ for Middleton/Parker.

It's only 1.5 games out of the #1 pick though. It looks like #8 will be as bad as it will be as they are 4 games up on #9. A top-5 pick in this draft is a potential game changer plus we'd have our pick in the low to mid teens.
 
It's only 1.5 games out of the #1 pick though. It looks like #8 will be as bad as it will be as they are 4 games up on #9. A top-5 pick in this draft is a potential game changer plus we'd have our pick in the low to mid teens.

If we trade CJ in a Love package I think it will be two top 10 or higher picks, Love isn’t playing for awhile and without CJ 3/5 of our starting lineup would be better suited as bench players.
 
I feel like the clippers have no idea what they are doing and what a rebuild should be or look like



I don't think they want to do a full blown rebuild. They seem to want to acquire additional young pieces while maintaining a core that is competitive.

Bradley and Jordan should still be up for sale.
 
If we trade CJ in a Love package I think it will be two top 10 or higher picks, Love isn’t playing for awhile and without CJ 3/5 of our starting lineup would be better suited as bench players.

Looking at the standings it would probably be around 12.

Can you imagine getting two stud wings like either Doncic or Porter and Mikal Bridges or something like that?

Starters: Dame, Bridges, Doncic or Porter, Love, and Nurk (re-sign)
Bench: Napier (re-sign), Connaughton (re-sign), Harkless, Collins, and Tristan Thompson
Deep Bench: Turner, Leonard, Swanigan

You could upgrade the bench with the TPE and/or the tax-MLE.

Now that would be a fucking exciting team with huge potential and we'd have all our future picks still for trades.
 
Looking at the standings it would probably be around 12.

Can you imagine getting two stud wings like either Doncic or Porter and Mikal Bridges or something like that?

Starters: Dame, Bridges, Doncic or Porter, Love, and Nurk (re-sign)
Bench: Napier (re-sign), Connaughton (re-sign), Harkless, Collins, and Tristan Thompson
Deep Bench: Turner, Leonard, Swanigan

You could upgrade the bench with the TPE and/or the tax-MLE.

Now that would be a fucking exciting team with huge potential and we'd have all our future picks still for trades.


My guess is Harmless and Napier are gone

My hope is CJ to Cavs for Love and the Nets pick. With that trade we would lock up 2 top 10 picks(maybe higher) in a loaded draft to pair with the 20 and 23 year olds in our frontcourt.

Imagine if us and the nets really sucked down the stretch(which would be very possible after that trade since Love is out)and we ended up with 2 top 5-7 picks

Nurk/Davis
Love/Collins
Porter(draft pick)/Turner
Donic(draft pick)/Pat
Dame/Napier

In 2 years the starters would be

Nurk(25)
Collins(22)
Porter(22)
Donic(21)
Dame(29)

Yes it’s a lot of “ifs” but I know what happens if shit stays status-quo.

Yes I can imagine that, I just think that BKN pick will be top 3 and after that trade, between our schedule and team moral, we would go down in flames the rest of the season and our pick would be top 8. I’m a dreamer.
 
Right now nbadraft.net has porter and donic going 3 and 4, with a little luck in the lottery or a complete collapse after that trade we could be set up for the next decade. I don’t think we have to worry about the BKN pick, it’s gonna be high.

I want porter badly. I was at the Husky game Saturday and the unicorn from Arizona looks good too but I’m guessing he goes number 1.
 
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Yes I can imagine that, I just think that BKN pick will be top 3 and after that trade, between our schedule and team moral, we would go down in flames the rest of the season and our pick would be top 8. I’m a dreamer.

No chance at anything higher than 10. They are 11.5 games ahead of 8 with 28 to play. With Porzingis going down tonight we won't pass the Knicks either. Getting to 10 means the Lakers and Hornets passed us which is unlikely but for the sake of your argument lets say one does and one doesn't.

That puts us at 11. 10 is best case scenario. Like I said, 12 is the most reasonable prediction. It could get lucky and jump into the top-3 though.
 
I want Wes Matthews back in Portland. Send Dirk here too, not that they'd do it. Give them Meyers to be the new Dirk and Harkless.

Dame/CJ/Turner/Dirk/Nurkic
Napier/Wes/PC/Aminu/Ed
Lmao. What the fuck...
 
And if we really wanna dream since Dame will have 5-7 years on those 4 guys we can trade him in his contract year for a pg that fits the new timeline or another top 5 pick to take the best pg of that years draft.

lol, sounds like a plan
 
This is pretty much the only CJ trade that I like. Gotta hope the Cavs do something dumb:

3-way with Sac, Cle, and Por

Sac gets IT and Shump
Cle gets CJ, George Hill, Aminu, and Davis
Por gets Love, Tristan Thompson (or JR Smith whichever they want to rid themselves of), and the Brooklyn pick

I think Hill and CJ would be a really nice compliment to each other. They are an absolute dumpster fire right now and a trade like this gets a bunch of the malcontents off their team and gives them a really solid lineup.

Starters: Hill, CJ, Crowder, LeBron, and Frye (or Thompson if they kept him instead of JR)
Bench: JR (or Frye if Thompson is still starting), Rose, Aminu, Davis, Korver, Jeff Green
That seems like a pretty nice upgrade to me. Even when LeBron leaves they’d still have Hill and CJ to build around.

The Cavs probably wouldn’t do it but it’s fun to think about. Maybe LeBron chewing out their GM will change things.
Why would SAC want IT... IT isn't going to resign and they have Fox...

Also, no wss they give up IT, Love, and the BKN pick for CJ and Love.
 
No chance at anything higher than 10. They are 11.5 games ahead of 8 with 28 to play. With Porzingis going down tonight we won't pass the Knicks either. Getting to 10 means the Lakers and Hornets passed us which is unlikely but for the sake of your argument lets say one does and one doesn't.

That puts us at 11. 10 is best case scenario. Like I said, 12 is the most reasonable prediction. It could get lucky and jump into the top-3 though.
And the talent at 20 is very close to the talent at 12.
 
And if we really wanna dream since Dame will have 5-7 years on those 4 guys we can trade him in his contract year for a pg that fits the new timeline or another top 5 pick to take the best pg of that years draft.

lol, sounds like a plan
Nobody is going to trade a young franchise PG for a 31-year old Dame in is contract year, and there's anything less is an even worse idea.
 
Right now nbadraft.net has porter and donic going 3 and 4, with a little luck in the lottery or a complete collapse after that trade we could be set up for the next decade. I don’t think we have to worry about the BKN pick, it’s gonna be high.

I want porter badly. I was at the Husky game Saturday and the unicorn from Arizona looks good too but I’m guessing he goes number 1.
We're not landing both those guys dude. That is so unrealistic...
 
Also CLE isn't going to trade the BKN pick and Love for CJ. They have little froth in the frontcourt and no defense. How is trading Love for CJ gonna fix any of that? LeBron still ends up leaving because the problem isn't fixed and they end up with McCollum instead of Doncic and Love (or whatever else they could trade Love for). It's not happening.
 
Nobody is going to trade a young franchise PG for a 31-year old Dame in is contract year, and there's anything less is an even worse idea.
Then trade him at 29, you get this is hypothetical right, if we had Nurk/Collins/Porter/Donic next year all at 23 or younger I’d trade him immediately for a high pick or pg that fit the timeline. It’s 1:30 am Wednesday morning on a sports forum...it’s called Fantasy Time.
 
I love how just because some asshole is hitting F5 on Twitter all day and seeing nothing exciting, it clearly means that our GM is not taking or making ANY calls, and quite obviously is doing nothing at all. It was this same shit last deadline and we landed nurk and a 1st. But because we hear of so and so linked to who's and what, but not us, it means Neil is asleep.

I'm not holding out hope for a franchise saving trade, but jesus, some people on here.
Everyone knows Neil runs a right ship too. All we have to do is wait another 36 hours...
 

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