Tatum, Jrue Holiday, Jalen Green and Ime to Knicks Brunson and OG to Rockets Durant, Bridges, Bradley Beal and Landale to Celtics FVV, Jaylen Brown and Porzingis to Suns
Brooks = win now JG = prospect Their #10 = picks Suns needs/wants are met for KD Moving Brooks opens playing time for KD. Keep FVV (cut his playing time back and his numbers will improve) Reed & Cam with veteran players and the absence of Brooks & Green play will grow quickly. We keep JSJ with JG salary spot & Amen when FVV comes off the books. Shooters everywhere.
I somehow want us to have a shot at Darryn Peterson in ‘26. Whether we trade players and picks next year when we know the draft order or take a risk and trade with a high lottery bound team this year, I feel like he’d be the perfect piece. A guy who can be a primary ball handler/scorer to pair with Thompson and Sengun. His game reminds me of Kobe.
As long as Jalen is in our starting lineup we aren't a contender. If you are really gonna go all in and do this type of nonsense FVV has to stay. He fits the timeline of the old guys you want much better. FVV Amen tari KD Giannis is a much better lineup.
See what the Lakers want for Knecht. He’s buried behind Reaves. If they want Adams then some kind of S&T. Good luck with Adams. Actually love his role on the Rockets. But starting in LA, lucky to get 60 games and 20 minutes per game. Would trade the #10 for Knecht. He instantly enters the 8 man rotation. He’s better than anything the Rockets can draft at 10. Maybe expand the trade. Don’t care for pick #55, but maybe take a chance on a bench guy like Jaxson Hayes or Shake Milton ( injury concerns ) Hard passes on KD, Booker, Giannis. Brook Lopez? Hell no.
How long is Jabari untradable after he signs an extension? I’m wondering if the Rockets could poison pill him to make up salary in a trade.
Since you can’t aggregate in a SnT, how about two separate trades as part of one deal? Part 1 Sign and Trade Adams at $16M/3 yrs for Rui ($18M in last year) Part 2 Jalen Green for Austin Reaves, Maxi Kleber and Gabe Vincent The lakers get the center they’ve been looking for while still having PFs in DFS and Vanderbilt. They also get a dynamic and younger player in Green who is locked in for the next three years at a lower price than Reaves will cost when he ultimately opts out next year. I honestly don’t know what the pick transactions should look like as the major pieces received by the Lakers are locked in for 3 years while everyone received by the Rockets is an expiring contract (which has its own merits and detractions).
I don't think he outright sucks, but I do agree #10 is too much for him. He's likely already pretty much at his ceiling (or very close to it). If he played starter minutes he'd probably be similar to a guy like Devin Vassell.
The Rockets should completely low ball Phoenix for Durant.The Suns trading KD to another team means the Suns are more likely to be bad again. The pick control leverage for the Rockets will only grown until Booker is the price. Giannis, or Booker, or bargain KD.
The difference is OKC has an NBA MVP. The Rockets don't have a single All NBA player. Not even a 3rd team all star. Other than the 2004 Detroit Pistons, which NBA team won a championship without a clear cut top 10 player?
Amen will be a top 10 player and I wouldn't be shocked if he's already made his first All-NBA team a year from now. It's going to be all about usage, I think he could already be putting up an efficient 21 and 7 if he had the ball in his hands twice as often. Those kinds of numbers were enough for Jimmy Butler to make All-NBA a few years back.
Exactly what I was thinking, and if we were thinking this then you know the Rockets are as well. I believe the Suns first tried to use KD in a trade to get back most if not all their picks back from HOU. When this failed, they lowered their asking price in an attempt to get back a portion of their picks, epecially the '27. Asking for pick(s) packages in return makes little sense unless it is from the Rockets, so this could be an attempt to get HOU interested again in KD. I think it is a forgone conclusion that if the Rockets do not make a trade for KD with Suns picks going back then Booker will be eventually traded. Whatever they get back for KD will not be enough for the Suns to even make the play-in. They screwed themselves hard, and only Booker can get PHO out of this hole of despair. Ishbia has shown to be an idiot running a team as an owner, so maybe not. It would be the smart thing to do however. Regardless if the Suns trade us Booker or not, the price of those picks is only going to increase when teams see how garbage the Suns are next year. Trading for KD is not the answer.
How about we keep the #10 pick, draft BPA AAAAAAAND. . . . PG - FVV / Sheppard SG - Brooks / Green SF - Thompson / Eason PF - Sengun / Smith ..C - Adams / Landale Plug in the #10 pick wherever he gets picked.
Honestly, the price of the '27 and '29 picks has even gone up in the last couple weeks. Ishbia hiring an unqualified GM, and then basically hiring only staff from his alma mater, then releasing a letter saying he's going to get even more involved in basketball decision making. At this point we're looking at their burning house, and we're the benefactors of the fire insurance policy on it. And the fire is accelerating.
Your point is well taken. There is merit to this. I just think that OKC has three young, elite players where there are pretty significant questions that need to be answered for our team. I don't think Amen, or Sengun, or Jalen are better prospects than Chet, or Jaylen Williams, much less Shai. Their actual production as two way players is miles better than anybody on the Rockets. OKC is a young behemoth. That's what we are up against. I think the Rockets will have to be aggressive.
