Would You Trade Tari Eason, 1st rd pick & Bench Warmers for Coby White?

Remember that Tari is still going to be coming off the bench for his team, and may still be resting on B2Bs. I just don't think his production is going to be as impressive as you think. I'm also not convinced he'll shoot 36% from three, though I hope so. Also have to consider the cap space landscape. It's not that much different next offseason from what it was this one. Will anybody even be capable of giving him a $30M offer sheet?

 

I get that you're not convinced he'll be healthy or shoot that %, but those are the conditions the post is about. If those things happen no one would be surprised and this whole thing blows up in our face. I think practically no one would be surprised if he played 72 games and shot 1.5% better from 3 than his career. The volume of production won't really matter. Anunoby got paid coming off a mixture of 40, 50 and 60 game seasons. Tari will get paid for what he can produce the following 4 years. If everything goes to **** (misses games, has a b2b restriction, doesn't improve his shooting despite being more motivated than ever to do so, low volume of production) then of course he won't get a big offer.

Yeah I think - aside from BKN - Chicago, Washington, LAL, Miami will all be in play. Those teams are a simple move or waiving of cap holds away from being players and a few of them have stated they're targeting cap space in 2026.

I don't think this is the "check mate" that people are perceiving. All it takes is one team with cap space to be willing to sign him. Then you get your arm twisted into a SnT unless you want to see him walk for nothing.

 

CW doesn't exactly fit the defensive mentality. His on-off numbers are very bad and he has a career negative offensive and defensive impact (OBPM and DBPM both almost always negative).

I'm not sure how CW seeing rather dramatic improvement would be any less of a gamble that almost any of the other options.

 

I'm expecting either Tari is hurt and everyone says I told you so, or Tari has a relative healthy season and blows the doors off what most people expect of him.

 

We're hard-capped at the first apron, so you would need to restructure this trade to be no more than +$1,255,588 in incoming net salary, and we would only be able to trade in December. I'm not sure what that trade would look like. You likely would need to include Reed for this to work.

 

I would do it honestly. White is a solid ****ing get, unless Tari shows more consistency at least as a finisher and stop the dumb fouls, he cost us 2-3 games easily singlehandedly.

 

I’ve gone back and forth on White. Would he be a big upgrade to Reed, yes. Would he screw up the direction they are going with Amen and Sengun as lead initiators, yes. If Amen learns to shoot from outside we are set without making a single move.

 

Haven't watched much South Park lately, hunh?

 

1. I'd trade Reed before I trade Tari
2. Coby White is interesting but not worth Tari and/or any of our available 1st rd picks

 

Outside of sports I'm not really a big tv person, so probably about 6-7 years I guess since I last saw South Park.

 

Trade Jabari for him

 

I think we can trade Reed/draft pick/salary filler for Colby White
Bulls ain't doing anything this year - if they can get a future 1st in the deal I think they'll bite.

 

Grok is telling me Ayo Dosunmu or Keon Ellis. I am 100% on the Keon Ellis train.

 

Coby currently makes 12.8m, and remember if you ship people out for players to come back in, still have to make the minimum 14-man roster spot.

A good chunk of the roster are on their new deal so can't move them until Dec.

If people have been following the Bulls, Coby is also on the re-up and is looking for big money in his next deal. (asking price is currently higher than what Giddey got). Bulls dragged their feet on Giddey because part of the planning was to make sure there's enough in the pot if they want to offer something big to Coby. Lastly Stone has not finalized KD's deal yet, so it's unlikely we'll give KD's extension and still pay Coby.


The answer is we should try to make due with the current roster. And if Amen or Reed are not cut out to be ball handlers or lead guards, you probably want to know sooner than later. Rip the band-aid off.

Afraid of finding out a bad outcome is not the answer. Because if Reed and Amen are limited, you want to know it before big money is committed on their extension.

 

At first I said "He'll Yes" because I thought it was Derrick White. Now I realized my mistake I say "He'll No!"

 

I'll let Reed Sheppard prove it to me first.. he's the #3 overall pick ffs, play like it.

If he goes horribly wrong, then we look around the league at young guards.. there are so many of them, many of them are in the East.

Surely, we could put a package around getting one.

 

Unless you are an amazing prompt wizard, you are using ChatGPT wrong if this is your view.

Some people have learnt the art of prompting where they can get the answers they want from their first prompt, but that's almost impossible. Usually, you would have a conversation with Gen AI to refine it's answers further.

Also speak to it nicely, so you are spared in the apocalypse.

 

Grok >>>> Stone