ESPN sources say Nets have made D-Will, Brook Lopez & Joe Johnson available via trade

Or actually the Suns?! They added wright but he is more of a big off bench type. If they added Lopez for basically cap space the 8th seed is theirs

 

that's good news. no 3rd team to clutter things up and help OKC out.

 

Good, if they want him they're going to have to give something significant up to get him. Perhaps Perkins and Iboka. Which would pretty much give them the same team they have now talent wise

 

I hope they let go of Jackson for Lopez.

 

No one is mentioning perkins and reggie jackson? Makes sense for both. Brooklyn gets a younger potential talent than lance and perks expiring along with cap savings. For okc, they already got reggies replacement in waiters.

Makes sense to me. Especially if you throw in spare parts like a perry jones or jeremy lamb. Much more realistic value for brooklyn and okc still doesnt lose much

 

Yes, that's the most realistic scenario. And certainly less of highway robbery in OKC's favor. Take the big contract and health risk, foresake the tax savings of Perk expiring, and throw in a great young guy (Jackson) and a project young guy (PJ/Lamb). Get in return a huge starting 5 upgrade for the win-now loadup that should have happened years ago instead of constantly cutting costs.

 

That still doesn't fix the main issues.......that the Nets owe significant luxury taxes, and wouldn't be getting anything back for their best asset.

Perkins and Lamb for Lopez doesn't make any sense for Brooklyn. If I'm Brooklyn, you either deal Lopez to the 76ers for free (or use their cap space in a 3 team deal) or you demand one of Jackson or Adams from OKC.

 

I think "multiple sauces" Broussard mentioned the Nets are pretty much looking for a salary dump. So....this might be a Rondo-ish deal; "here, fine, take him, he's yours".

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Oklahoma City, Brooklyn progressing on a Brook Lopez package that includes Jeremy Lamb and Kendrick Perkins, league sources tell Yahoo.</p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/status/556127365193953280">January 16, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Don't understand Brooklyn's perspective other than financial means... Especially with the pending sale of the team. Jeremy Lamb is an unproven talent and Kendrick Perkins is a negative. If Jackson isn't included, or possibly Waiters, I will be stunned.

 

Other than cap relief, this sounds like a crappy deal for Brooklyn. Jeremy Lamb sucks and Perkins is not very good either. Why would the Nets do this trade?

 

Salary dump? I'm not sure.

Lopez can opt out after the season (or should I say player option for next year)

Perkins is expiring; Lamb has a team option(or did OKC pick that up?).

Although a Lopez-for-Perkin-Lamb doesn't work salary wise.

 

So they are trading half of James Harden and KP for Lopez? Not horrid, but not an amazing trade. It seems a bit like a lateral movement if you ask me. Plus, now you're trading two pieces that could fit into your team's playoff rotation for one (okay, maybe Lamb doesn't fit that). OKC does get the best player in that trade, so I guess it passes the BS test.

 

Financial means is the only perspective for them now that the team is for sale. They want to dump future salary commitments to make the asset more attractive to buyers.

 

Not sure I understand the question from Houston's perspective. Doesn't really seem like a plausible option for us. But it would probably cost us Terry/Jones/Papa/Capela to both get Brooklyn's attention and make it work for salary-matching purposes. The problem is we're giving up too much in that scenario and Brooklyn has already mortgaged just about every meaningful draft pick they're ever going to have over the next few years. That and they have no desirable young talent to offer.

From OKC's perspective, though, this [now seemingly dead 3-way involving NJ] is a no-brainer. To get one the best post scorers in the league for essentially nothing makes them immediate contenders. They're already a playoff team without him. Injuries or not, he could essentially "coast" (limit his minutes, rest him on back-to-backs, etc) through the regular season and turn it on in the playoffs. It's a scary thought. Hopefully, Brooklyn changes their tune and demands Reggie Jackson be included.

 

Okc is desperate, I wouldn't trade for brook Lopez due to his previous injuries. If I were them Id rather have 2 healthy players at center than lopeZ always being a risk.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>More importantly: Sources say one option that strongly interests Nets, IF Brook L trade goes down, is trying to deal Perk for Thaddeus Young</p>&mdash; Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/556138877224636418">January 16, 2015</a></blockquote>
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OKC could make a straight up trade pretty easily.

Perk, Lamb, Roberson, for Brook Lopez. Maybe they have to throw in a pick or something, but that deal works financially.

 

What's interesting about this is a Perkins for Thad Young trade doesn't really make sense without an asset going to Minnesota.

The only REAL asset those two teams have available would be Reggie Jackson, and Minnesota has ALOT invested in a couple PG's already.

BKN, and OKC need a third team to facilitate and Reggie Jackson would seem to be the asset that third team would want to recieve in order to get Minnesota an asset for BKN to acquire Thad Young.

Hmmmm.....

http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=lo48eeh

 

Yep. Seems to be held up because the Nets are trying to get Perkins off to another team. They probably know he's going to be worthless for them in a playoff run (surprisingly the Nets might still make the playoffs in the East as sad as it might seem(.

That's a tough call without a 3rd or 4th team. They need someone to facilitate picks to get a player in a Perk/Young or some other random halfway decent player swap?