Houston Rockets are open to trading Alperen Sengun

That #2 pick is definitely worth Jabari. Jabari is a career role player. You don't want that out of a 2nd pick.

 

Giannis has three more years on this contract (25–26, 26–27, 28–29 player option), so that naturally limits what the Bucks can ask. At worst, he's a two-year rental.

Your proposed Şengün and Brooks package may be too small. Throwing in Whitmore and one of the Phoenix future picks (not this year's) may be necessary because other teams will raise the cost by adding in more picks.

If the Milwaukee front office has common sense, they will realize that the lottery is cruel and that actual players mean more than shadow future picks.

 

Seems like anyone can tweet rumors like and say "sources" it will aggregate and come off as legitimate.

Who is this Kurt Helin (https://x.com/basketballtalk) and does he have any legitimacy?

He also tweeted Jabari would sure be included in any Giannis deal. How exactly would he know this?

Stone and Co. are not known for spilling information like this.

 

Huh??? On basketball reference and NBA.com they show him as 34.5% this year and 38.7% last year. You must be mistaken.

 

Would the Spurs or the Bucks trade #2 for Sengun straight up if he is infinitely better? Would they even have a conversation? Would any other team?

No, they would not.


A rookie with a 10% chance of becoming an all-NBA player is - prior to being drafted - probably more valuable in the NBA than Sengun, who 1) makes $30-40 million now and 2) is not a true superstar player and never will be.

I'm not even going to mention Tari Eason or Jalen Green.

 

I think it depends what team’s are involved. Would the Rockets trade Sengun for #2, definitely not. Would the Spurs trade the #2 for Sengun if they could get Giannis with it, NO, but probably Yes if Giannis is not in the picture. Wemby and Sengun is a great combo, since Wemby can shoot outside and Sengun is a far superior passer. Harper is pure conjecture just like Jalen was. I don’t know which the Buck’s would prefer probably Harper, because they need to do a full re-build and are years away from being able to compete without Giannis.

 

Career, Alp is better

 

Yeah, the Spurs would definitely trade #2 for Sengun in a heartbeat if they had the chance.

Pairing Wmby and Sengun would be a nightmare for teams for over a decade.

Sengun at 22 already is what you hope a #2 pick will eventually become.... and if you look at the recent history of #2 picks, there haven't been many that have been as good as Sengun already is.

So yeah, you take the sure thing over the magic beans.

 

i'm sorry guys but you're a bit delusional if you think any franchise is trading #2 for Sengun. in fact i'm willing to bet that if you polled random NBA fans from other teams it would be a landslide in favor of Dylan Harper.

 

Going for the bag of magic beans rather than a 22 year old all star on a HOF trajectory is often popular, but it's not what smart people do.

 

Fans don’t make the picks. The only GM’s that wouldn’t take Sengun over Harper are re-building teams or teams that already have an all-star low post center and are in desperate need for a combo guard. In a re-draft Sengun would be the no. 2 pick in his draft. Harper is not a sure thing to be all that, but for a re-building team that has no need to compete immediately you take that chance. In the year that we picked Jalen, would the Rockets have traded the #2 for say an all-star center that is not a superstar? I’ll answer for you, No, because we were a re-building team with no hope of competing in the next 2-3 years.

 

you are proving my entire point. the Bucks would much rather take Harper over Sengun since they are rebuilding with no chance at competing.

 

I imagine the Spurs would trade #2 for Sengun.

Sengun
Wemby
Vassell
Castle
Fox

if you want to make the argument that that line of black shooting, I guess, but that is nasty.

 

The guards are awful, but if you can replace them then you probably have a championship team

 

Oh I see, you're looking at overall 3 point shooting percentages. The guy you were responding to is talking about catch-and-shoot 3s. I think that's where the mixup is.

 

certainly not arguing your reply, my problem with this specific source is the declarative sentence followed by the well, if maybe duh who knows what they’re thinking…

perhaps I’ve stressed it a wee strongly???

 

The argument was that the Rockets don't have anything that compares to the Spurs' #2 pick in this year's draft — as if that asset were infinitely better than everything the Rockets could offer (except Amen, whom we are not trading).

I think you can make a solid case that Şengün offers more than this year's #2 pick, especially after Harper's lackluster shooting at the combine. Am I trying to say that the Rockets should go after that pick? No, of course not. I'm saying that if you compare the package the Rockets can offer Milwaukee with the Spurs' assets, having the #2 pick is probably weaker than a recently selected all-star player who averaged a double-double and forced defenses to plan for his game every night.

I'm unsure it's wise to make that trade with Milwaukee, but we have better players to offer.

 

God please just take green and FVV and picks for Giannes and call it a day. leave alpi alone.

 

I agree with the Bucks angle, but not SA. SA would trade the #2 pick for Sengun in a country second.

 

So much so that they'd probably think that they were being pranked like Shedur Sanders if someone called them making the offer.