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1 Eye Jack said:
sharpe is like getting a lottery pick why wouldn’t they like him? He’s proven
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Because Sharpe isn't ready to win now. If they traded Durant around a guy like Sharpe, they'd be one of the worst teams in the league, so they'd be adding Sharpe, but losing out on multiple lottery picks of their own, while suffering worse attendence, etc. Not a great trade off.
 
We aren't getting KD. We dont have the pieces and are contractually hamstrung cuz of the hard cap.
 
People should stop thinking about KD, it will be surprising to me if Joe can land Vanderbilt. KD lol
 
illmatic99 said:
We aren't getting KD. We dont have the pieces and are contractually hamstrung cuz of the hard cap.
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Irrelevant. No one is getting KD, because the Net's are not going to trade him in the next 3 days.
 
Tince said:
Because Sharpe isn't ready to win now. If they traded Durant around a guy like Sharpe, they'd be one of the worst teams in the league, so they'd be adding Sharpe, but losing out on multiple lottery picks of their own, while suffering worse attendence, etc. Not a great trade off.
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All I was saying is Sharpe would be considered like trading a draft pick. He as top 10 last year and is showing huge upside. If Brooklyn trades Durant they will be in full rebuild mode
 
CJ_is_Gone said:
Irrelevant. No one is getting KD, because the Net's are not going to trade him in the next 3 days.
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I find it highly relevant that we can't even theoretically throw our hat in the ring because of poor management of our books by our GM.
 
I think the way to get around the damn Chicago pick is we make another trade with Chicago and make the pick unprotected. We trade combination of players along with taking protection off the pick for a Chicago player. At this point best we could hope for would be A 3% chance at top pick. We then have future 1st rounders to make trades. Tired of having this pick holding up all potential trades.
 
1 Eye Jack said:
I think the way to get around the damn Chicago pick is we make another trade with Chicago and make the pick unprotected. We trade combination of players along with taking protection off the pick for a Chicago player. At this point best we could hope for would be A 3% chance at top pick. We then have future 1st rounders to make trades. Tired of having this pick holding up all potential trades.
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Given our current place in the standings, unprotecting it is extremely risky.

I'm more upset at how close we are to the hard cap. Even if we get into tax territory, we would have to send out multiple contracts for KD but will not have any way to meet the minimum roster requirement by paying more tax because the hard cap would have been triggered. That Gary Payton signing is a major roadblock and a few of us called it from the start. And his injuries and inability to play while less than 100% only makes it worse.

Any KD to Portland deal can only happen in the summer.
 
1 Eye Jack said:
I think the way to get around the damn Chicago pick is we make another trade with Chicago and make the pick unprotected. We trade combination of players along with taking protection off the pick for a Chicago player. At this point best we could hope for would be A 3% chance at top pick. We then have future 1st rounders to make trades. Tired of having this pick holding up all potential trades.
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It doesn't have to be a big trade we trade them cash and the protection is removed. They just have to agree to it, which has always been a mere formality. Some in here think that Chicago would unprecedentedly not be open to having the pick guaranteed to them along with a sweetener because we might pursue a player that they might pursue but I think they would do what has been done in the past because otherwise they'd look like they are hard to deal with going forward.
 
illmatic99 said:
Given our current place in the standings, unprotecting it is extremely risky.

I'm more upset at how close we are to the hard cap. Even if we get into tax territory, we would have to send out multiple contracts for KD but will not have any way to meet the minimum roster requirement by paying more tax because the hard cap would have been triggered. That Gary Payton signing is a major roadblock and a few of us called it from the start. And his injuries and inability to play while less than 100% only makes it worse.

Any KD to Portland deal can only happen in the summer.
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You could trade Ant, Nurk, Hart and all of our future picks freed up by removing the conditions on the Chicago picks for KD, Claxton and two of their min contract guys... and you could do that right now, wouldn't have to wait for the summer. We'd be under the tax too. I'm not saying that I know that would be good enough for Brooklyn but I don't think it's too far off in terms of value.
 
blazerkor said:
You could trade Ant, Nurk, Hart, Shae and all of our future picks freed up by removing the conditions on the Chicago picks for KD, Claxton and two of their min contract guys... and you could do that right now, wouldn't have to wait for the summer. We'd be under the tax too. I'm not saying that I know that would be good enough for Brooklyn but I don't think it's too far off in terms of value.
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Why would BK realistically do that? Claxton is a DPOY candidate and would fit a timeline with younger players they get back for KD.

Of course there are ways around the hard cap, but not realistic ones.

Just because we can trade Dame for Westbrook and it works salary wise doesnt mean it is realistic.
 
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1 Eye Jack said:
All I was saying is Sharpe would be considered like trading a draft pick. He as top 10 last year and is showing huge upside. If Brooklyn trades Durant they will be in full rebuild mode
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I get it... And my original point (that you replied to) was given their lack of draft picks, a full rebuild around young, unproven talent (like Sharpe) doesn't make sense because they don't have other assets to build around him with.
 
Durant and the Nets are talking about the new direction of the franchise after the Irving trade. Could Durant also want out now? Could Portland swing a deal for him? They’d have to give up a lot, but at this point in Lillard’s career, with time slipping away, this may be the last chance they have to pair him with another star.
 
Nets are not doing anything with Durant until the summer. You're 4-5 months early in this speculation
 
CJ_is_Gone said:
Nets are not doing anything with Durant until the summer. You're 4-5 months early in this speculation
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ON THE OTHER HAND: apparently a bunch of teams are preparing to make a run at Durant as a free agent, so if the Nets think he really might leave, then their hand will be forced. Yes, they could do a sign-and-trade, but what if he wants to go to the Suns (or whatever) and doesn't want them to give up assets to get him?
 
Rastapopoulos said:
ON THE OTHER HAND: apparently a bunch of teams are preparing to make a run at Durant as a free agent, so if the Nets think he really might leave, then their hand will be forced. Yes, they could do a sign-and-trade, but what if he wants to go to the Suns (or whatever) and doesn't want them to give up assets to get him?
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It's always good to plan for the future, but Durant has 3 years left after this one.
 
blazedanugz said:
wellll windhorst just reported that things have changed in the last 24 hours…..
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Well, if Windhorst said it.... it must be true.

RR7 said:
It's always good to plan for the future, but Durant has 3 years left after this one.
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Exactly. Due to Durant's contract situation - the Nets have no reason to rush and trade him in the next 24-hrs. It would be much better for them to wait until the summer to do anything.
 
Unless someone was to give them a Godfather offer, Brooklyn should absolutely not deal Durant anytime soon.
 
CJ_is_Gone said:
Well, if Windhorst said it.... it must be true.


Exactly. Due to Durant's contract situation - the Nets have no reason to rush and trade him in the next 24-hrs. It would be much better for them to wait until the summer to do anything.
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windhorst is the first Big media guy to report that…this is called the Durant thread. Which means information about Durant.
 
1 Eye Jack said:
I think the way to get around the damn Chicago pick is we make another trade with Chicago and make the pick unprotected. We trade combination of players along with taking protection off the pick for a Chicago player. At this point best we could hope for would be A 3% chance at top pick. We then have future 1st rounders to make trades. Tired of having this pick holding up all potential trades.
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Pretty sure you can just call Chicago and pay them to unprotect the pick.
 
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