Done Deal: Nikola Mirotic to Pelicans for Omer Asik + 1st round pick

OH HOW I WISH WE COULD GET HIM.

We could use him on the court and also his salary for trades next year if he picks up his option.

 

This is Morey's chance. I have no idea how he pulls it off, but a Ryno for Mirotic swap no longer sounds impossible. It's still insanely unlikely, but if Chicago is willing to eat Asik's contract for one first, maybe they'll eat Ryno's contract for two future firsts and some second rounders?

 

Laughed at......

 

What drama. LMAO
Mirotic refusal makes the Bulls bargaining position even weaker.
I thought they would have done pretty good with the Asik trade but now Mirotic could possibly fetch even less in the following days.

 

Yep. That $3 million guaranteed number makes Asik a lot more attractive than Ryno. Next year he's basically an expiring.

 

I don't see how that can happen, the Bulls are willing to eat Asik contract cause it's basically half of Ryan contract, granted, Asik looks also done, but they won't play him anyway. Also, NOLA pick will still be way better than our own so...don't get your hopes up.

 

Mirotic is one of the most disliked players in the league by his own teammates.

 

If they Rockets would somehow offer 2 firsts then Anderson would already have been traded.

I read the new list of the worst contracts in the league from realgm yesterday and surprisingly though Anderson wasnt in there.

 

Mirotic should take that deal! He has a chance to be a starting next to AD and with the Clippers quiting on this season, they should make the play-offs.

 

Maybe they just forgot him? I can't imagine any list of worst contracts in the league without Ryno's name it given how pedestrian he's been this season. I mean, there are a lot of guys doing next to nothing and making $10 million+ this season, but how many guys are below average starters at their positions and making $20 million a year?

 

Throw some 2nds in to sweeten the pot for the Bulls. Bulls get the Pels first and multiple seconds from us:


The Pels could even dump another contract on us if they want (one of their smaller ones or Ajinca) to give themselves more breathing room under the tax.

For us we don't really get anything worthwhile except we clear Anderson and improve our own space under the tax to pursue buyouts.

In the offseason if we could make a deal work with Cleveland for Lebron we could do it with Asik/Tucker/Troy/Onuaku plus our first round picks.

 

This season is basically over when evaluating worst contracts, so Ryno is basically a two year $41.5 million dollar deal. It's not a good contract but it's not long. I'd be surprised if any of the "worst contracts" on the list include someone who is actually playing serious minutes with a deal of two years or less after this season.

 

Nah they don't forget him. These guys are the real cap nerds.
They really thought he has better value than other 10.
Here's the list
https://basketball.realgm.com/analysis/248750/The-10-Least-Tradable-NBA-Contracts-Of-2018

Batum, Mahinmi, Gallinari, Mozgov, Asik, Conley, Noah, Parsons, Deng were the names of the list.

So supposedly Rhyno has better trade value than Asik according to some trade experts or whatever.

 

Big points on the list:
1) Longer deals than Anderson
OR
2) Similar length deals but don't play

 

Interesting, thanks for posting this.

Damn it's really strange (somehow) to see Batum there...he's such a good basketball player and was playing great basketball when he got traded to Charlotte, i wonder if he should've had surgery for his elbow instead of playing on it, or he's just pulling a Turkoglu after getting paid like some people were expecting...