Who are some inexpensive Jalen Green replacements that can be had?

Damn, Bro. Reptile GM. lol. There is something slimy about Stone, however. He certainly does not have the charisma of Double Chin Maury.

 

The trade I would like to see is this:

Hou out: Jalen, Dillon and pick #10
Hou in: Malik Monk, Jusuf Nurkic, Grant Williams and Pick #4

Cha out: Jusuf Nurkic, Grant Williams and Pick #4
Cha in: Jalen and pick #10

Sac out: Monk
San in: Dillon Brooks

FVV/Reed
Monk/Edgecomb (pick #4)
Amen/Eason
Smith/Eason/Williams
Sengun/Adams/Nurkic

Some additional SRPs and maybe Whitmore might have to be included but that is the basic team.

 

Maybe the few times I've watched him he played his best games and judging by his stats it looks that way. Yeah, we could do better. I'd still think Cole would do well here, but wouldn't require moving down 6 spots.

 

I'm biased as a UH alum, but I was never high on Josh Christopher.

 

This.

Grimes, Jerome, Keon Ellis. Add Tyus Jones as a straight up Aaron Holiday upgrade.

We dont need to trade up to get the perimeter creation we need. I rather use the pick to get another prospect, somebody like Jakucionis, Carter Bryant or Rasherr fleming.

 

If I were Philly trading away Embiid or PG would be a priority. Maybe no team would take them in a straight salary dump, but they could be traded for cheaper players on similarly bad contracts. If Beal and his NTC would be traded out of Washington I bet Philly could find takers too. I think they'd rather use the stretch provision to avoid tax than just let promising young players go.

It's not like Philly has been in luxury tax hell for years. They aren't even luxury tax team this season. Maxey was on a dirt cheap rookie contract before now. Surely they can be an apron team for one year before deciding to let talent walk. McCain will be a sophomore and they have the #3 pick, trading Grimes for draft compensation via S&T while saving no salary next year just seems unlikely to me.

 

Honors College Class of '04 (Aww, stop, it's not that big a deal, really!) Loved that Final Four team with Grimes. Anybody who watched him for two years under Kelvin Sampson would want him on their team. One of the most well-rounded guys in the college game with real offensive upside.

However, I'm also a sucker for a combo guard with swag, so I was interested to watch Jaygup (horrible nickname, btw) play. He became my special little guy on the Rockets... for about 15 minutes. He, uh, wasn't what I wanted him to be. lol. Like a much-worse version of Jalen Green, which... oof.

 

Poole is a substantial downgrade over Green.

 

Just unloading Jalen and FVV will make us better and saves you 80 million per year.

 

Jalen Green for Lauri Markkanen and Collin Sexton

 

Id trade a lot for Ausar. Id double down on the Thompsons

 

Herro is one of Miami's few significant trade pieces left. I don't see Riley trading him for a package built primarily around Jalen. Jalen is only two years younger and on a worse contract, being paid more than Herro for the next two years and with a player option at the end of it. That is the opposite of trading Herro for value unless we attach multiple other prospects and picks.

I can see Chicago trading White, but again Jalen is very similar and not that much younger and owed much more money. I bet they want picks outright rather than swaps considering they are a potential lottery team for the near future.

 

I agree with most of what you said. NBA landscape has changed in terms of salary cap management, which is why the Suns could not trade that same Beal contract with less years. PG is approaching Beal territory of being untradeable. I would argue his contract is worse then Beal's due to the number of years left and his on court production. Embiid? Sure, maybe. Chronically injured and even when healthy won't play back to backs anymore. Don't see a team willing to tie up 50 million plus in cap space for Embiid. Might as well take a gamble on the younger Zion if a team wants to gamble on a distressed star asset.

You really think Maury is going to admit signing PG was a mistake only one year later and do a 180 and rebuild? Don't see it happening. Will Grimes be content with a backup role? He proved himself to be a quality starter, and does Philadelphia want to pay the tax for a 6th-man guard when they already have two excellent starting guards? Lots of ifs, IMO.

 

Certainly not my top choice, but didn't see him mentioned yet. I don't think he is a substantial downgrade from Green but it's certainly a more lateral move and we can possibly get a couple of picks out of it from a team rebuilding from the bottom.

 

Some of you have Jalen's trade value greatly overinflated.

 

Or maybe people like you just extremely reactionary and want to sell low after buying high.

Whether you love or hate Green the reality is he is now on the team and not Mobley. Trading him for scraps just so you can beat your chest and say "I told you say" is honestly dumb AF. Yeah he had a bad playoff series. So what? That doesnt remove his regular season performance which was actually pretty good. Trading him now right after he crapped his pants is the wrong way to go about it, the earliest he should be traded is at the deadline when he has managed to build up his stock again, if Rox do decide to go that route.

 

This is 100 percent moot.

 

Coby White isn't going to be inexpensive

 

Nope. No chance he starts. No matter how much you love him he's going to make you look foolish