Sharife Cooper was waived by Hawks. Looks like Hawks may be going different route for their other Two-way player (not bringing him back).
Jaylen Brown is a pipe dream, but if the trade for Durant includes Brown and Smart, would you be interested in giving the Nets some of their draft capital back for Smart? If so, how much? KPJ would move to the 3 or sixth man role. Rockets: Get Smart and give back some draft capital to Brooklyn Celtics: Get Durant and Gordon; send draft capital to Brooklyn Nets: Get Brown, White, and draft capital from Celtics and Rockets.
It's not a bad idea, but I wouldn't give up any of the Nets picks. If they want EG, KJ Martin ,the Bucks 2023 pick plus one of the Minnesota second round picks, then sure.
No offseason thread so: https://www.espn.com/nba/insider/st...olden-state-warriors-every-west-team-check-in
To Utah: C Payne C Johnson O Toppin T Craig D Nwaba T Burke I Quickley (4) #1 picks from NYK 2023 Bucks #1 from Houston 2025 Suns #1 from Phoenix To NYK: D Mitchell J Okogie 2024 Brooklyn #2 2025 Minnesota #2 To Phoenix: E Fournier K Martin To Rockets: C Redish Q Grimes 2029 #1 Minnesota from Utah Utah gets 6 picks for Mitchell and almost no long term money back. Swapping the 2029 pick for a 2023 pick speeds up the rebuild. Knicks get their guy for 4 picks instead of 5 or 6 while keeping Barrett. They unload Fournier's long term money. They get a couple potentially high #2s to soften the loss of picks. No pick swaps in deal. Suns add a useful shooter off the bench in Fournier and a potential Saric replacement in Martin at the cost of lesser rotation players and a likely late first. Rockets pick up Grimes for Martin. They take a flier on an expiring Redish. They unload 5 million of Nwaba a year earlier making more cap space next year. They convert a pick likely in the 20s next year to a distant pick when they should be contending. It spreads their draft assets out. The 2029 Minnesota pick likely to be higher, okay with a top 5 protection attached. The 2 seconds are the cost to look at Redish and unload Nwaba.
Going to need to give up at least FRP to net Smart. Minimum. Not acquiring current DPOY for just EGo.
I can agree to part with the Nets 2024 pick, but not more than that. The 2023 pick swap must be retained.
Rockets had the “9th best” offseason 9. Houston Rockets 2021-22 record: 20-62; did not make playoffs Added: C Boban Marjanović (acquired from Dallas); G Sterling Brown (acquired from Dallas); G Trey Burke (acquired from Dallas); F Marquese Chriss (acquired from Dallas): F Jabari Smith Jr. (first round, third pick); F Tari Eason (first round, 17th pick); G TyTy Washington (draft rights acquired from Minnesota); G Trevor Hudgens (two-way); F Bruno Fernando (Exhibit 10); 2025, 2027 second-round picks (acquired from Minnesota) Lost: PF/C Christian Wood (traded to Dallas); G John Wall (reached contract buyout with team; signed with Clippers); G Wendell Moore Jr. (draft rights traded to Minnesota) Retained: F Jae’Sean Tate (three years, $22.1M) Extended: None Returning from Injury: None The Skinny: Smith was linked to Orlando for weeks with the No. 1 pick before the Magic took Paolo Banchero. So talent is not an issue with Smith, the 6-10 elite-potential marksman from Auburn, who should step right in as a starter alongside Jalen Green, Kevin Porter Jr. and Tate. He should immediately help Houston, plainly awful at both ends of the court last season (26th in offensive rating; 29th in defensive rating), and especially from deep. The Rockets were great at taking 3-point attempts last season (.448 on percentage of total FG attempts from 3, fourth-best in the league), not so great at converting them (.349 in 3-point percentage, 21st overall). Eason and Washington both flashed during Las Vegas Summer League and will provide emerging depth alongside second-year mean Josh Christopher and Usman Garuba. Houston clearly soured quickly on Wood, a heralded sign and trade pickup from Detroit just two years ago, taking a bunch of bodies from the Mavs rather than investing further in him. That brings us to second-year big man Alperen Şengün, who’s likely to step into most of those Wood minutes next season.
Might get some flack for this one, but… Rockets: Get Maxey; send KJM and release Nets from their 2023 - 2025 obligations to Houston. 76ers: Get Durant; send out Maxey, Thybulle, and Harris; release protections from 2027 pick owes to Nets; send 2029 pick and swaps to Nets. Nets: Send out Durant and can rebuild in earnest. They can also flip Kyrie to Lakers for another 2027 pick.
Nets would get best young player in this trade unfortunately. And that is Maxey. Because there is no way Rockets giving up the BKN picks. None.
To Lakers Kyle Lowry Duncan Robinson Majanovic To Heat Eric Gordon Kenyon Martin Jr THT Nwaba 3 of our expirings to be cut To Rockets Lakers earliest pick (2027?) Top 5 protection Heat future #1 Westbrook (buyout) For Heat, Lowry is getting up there. They unload Robinson making a Herro extension easier. Gordon helps winning now while Martin competes for long term job at 3 in Miami. Lakers get an upgrade from Westbrook in Lowry and spread the salary out in the form of Robinsons' deal who is useful to them for spacing. TF gets the privilege of paying both Wall and Westbrook to not play for us. We add a couple of promising picks for down the road in case the rebuild misfires...
If they had any option that didn't include Westbrook playing out the season or a 27 or 29 unprotected pick, they'd have pulled the trigger on it by now. No one is doing the Lakers any favors.
Yeah... quick NO. Thank you Lachard. No way I'm giving up all that for that. Grow organically. Save the picks we have and continue to build through the draft. As time goes on filter out through trades, whether for future draft picks or free agents that fit the team and time schedule, building a winner in the process and possibly a champion. You know what's better than back to back? A three-peat baby!
I like that "it's worth acknowledging . . ." line. "It's worth acknowledging that this has no chance of happening, but I need to write an article, so..."
