So the Locked on Nets guys did a mail bag recently. At the very end of the episode, they did a follow up on a previous topic: how much money their viewers feel Cam should get from the Nets. Most of their audience are Nets fans. It's not gospel, but more of a survey: linked the vid below. TLDR; the hosts summarized the number from YT comments and their Twitter replies. The amount appears to be in the range of $18m - $20m per year. Half of the population says to not go over $20 mil. Spoiler: sauce, timestamped at 28 min mark This means couple things; 1) They like Cam, but they also don't want to overpay despite RFA. Which also means for CF fans here who are more high on him, it's possible Rockets with an overpay to get him. 2) Other side of coin is, be careful on the amount of the overpay.
Literally 100% of our roster is rookie scale, team option or non guaranteed. We can afford to overpay a guy for two years.
Frontloaded contracts and/or 2-3 year contracts are definitely the way to go. Doesn't matter that much if we overpay right now, just need to be careful around the time when all our guys are hitting their prime years and wanting to get paid.
Pacers Looking To Package Picks To Move Up In Draft The 2023 NBA Draft is less than a month away. With the combine in the rearview mirror, teams are hosting player workouts. It's also the time when draft trade chatter picks up. The Indiana Pacers, who hold three picks in the first round of the draft, are reportedly looking at trading up. Indiana is looking into packaging the #7, #26 and #29 picks together to move up in the first round. The Pacers are continuing the rebuild their roster around a core that includes Tyrese Haliburton, an extended Myles Turner and roster and cap flexibility. Indiana could have over $27 million in cap space this summer.
If they want to move up to our pick (say, if Miller drops) our ask would have to be Mathurin. Turner and/or Hield aren't appealing enough to move back three spots unless you're Kelly Iko, and I don't see how we could possibly be interested in adding #26 and #29. Utterly pointless in our situation--we don't need more TyTy, Garuba level players. Which is why these deals are always so hard to get done. You know they'll be as loathe to give up on Bennedict as we would Jalen, Jabari, Alpi.
Haliburton is one of the least likely guys to be moved... you could argue better value than Victor factoring in injury potential. He's poor man's Luka... very efficient....
To Toronto: Jalen Green Jae'Sean Tate Kenyon Martin Jr #4 To Houston: OG Anunoby #13 2026 unprotected #1 pick Sign Grant Williams and James Harden. Draft Amari Bailey and Dereck Lively Harden / Bailey / Washington Anunoby / KPJ / Christopher Williams / Eason Smith / Garuba Sengun / Lively That's 4 additions who all play defense and can contribute on offense (Lively in pick and roll). Biggest get is a completely unprotected #1 in 3 years... may allow us to let guys walk if cap space gets tougher...
Yeah maybe, but I'm not overrating him. Just see OG as an excellent pure 3&D guy. That can't possibly be overrating him can it?
I think even Raptor fans see him as a high level offensive ball role playing scorer who's effective at shooting and cutting and finishing at the rim while being an excellent switchable defender. Masai is known to overvalue his players though.
Jalen is literally the only player on this team that has any chance whatsoever to be a superstar and u want to give that away for Anunoby? and u want to include the 4th pick?
For a possible top 3 pick in 3 years sure. I would take 100% chance of Anunoby over 20% chance Green becomes a star. He's years away on defense and has only shown spurts on offense. I have concerns about Udoka tolerating the defense of Jalen if we're also adding Harden...
I understand there are a lot of Jalen Green only fans subscribers here but his trade value isn't as much as you think... I'm not sure Toronto does that to risk an unprotected pick... depends how they grade #4 with the leftovers... with #5 up for trade there are other options for them.
Raptors Rapture 4 weeks ago: About acquiring Jalen Green: "The defensive struggles aren’t just a concern; they’re so debilitating that it is impacting his NBA ceiling."
He just loves the reaction he gets from including Jalen in trade proposals. By now he's heard back from enough people that he's totally aware how far his valuation of Jalen is far from reality. Still he'd rather throw Green into the proposals than to make a realistic prediction. Imagine a team having several future picks trading away Jalen Green before he ever had a team with average spacing or defense or role players who play their role well. It's laughable. The only way it would happen is if someone strongly demanded it in a trade for a star, in which case what in the hell would we trade him for lol. Don't spend a lot of time trying to change his mind because as crazy as it appears he actually believes this stuff.
