2022-23 Team Developments: News / Trades / Free Agents / Rumors

Once he put on the purple and gold we traded him for Pat Bev and a pack of Kools to the Jazz who waived him. Second coming? I don't know about that.

 

Jimmy Buckets: too old
LaVine: too injury prone and the Bulls just signed him to a new contract
Beal: Really bad fit with LeGM and AD. If he shot well from three…
Klay: I’m too worried about him not getting his mojo back to take that gamble
I would wait for someone younger.
The Fournier and Reddish deal with no firsts going out sounds good to me.

 

He plays for the Knicks so I'm still giving him the benefit of the doubt

Fournier/Cam deal is perfect for us. We seem to be unwilling to take longer contracts, which is stupid, so I would be very glad if we made that deal.
Fournier would be great for us, like Rozier. Those guys shoot very well and are on teams where they still get too much attention. Playing with LeBron and AD they would have tons of great looks

 

fournier is a slightly cheaper hield, imo. he's a year older, but they've been very similar players over their careers.

the club option on the last year makes fournier/reddish a no-brainer for me.

i just think the knicks don't gain enough from moving just fournier. maybe there's a three-teamer that pleases everyone? like something that uses our expirings and a 2nd or two to get collins to the knicks?

 

i'm giving up 2nds, tbh. especially when you can buy them like we have. i just think (as stated in multiple posts) that the knicks aren't in salary dump mode.

that said, i also think that thibs is one of the few guys in the league who would see bevs as a major get in a trade right now. he does play defense and is a serious competitor. thibs loves that and wants it on his team. i'm not sure reddish and fournier are dawgs. but we need some skills. not to mention that maybe nunn just needs a change of scenery to reset and be useful again.

i'm talking myself-as-knicks-gm into it.

as lakers gm, i'd have pulled the trigger yesterday. i think reddish could be really good here, like having another lonnie at the sf spot. and i think fournier can be salvaged. no way he just forgot how to shoot.

 

lol role reversal. you sound like me with hield/turner. i just don't value 2nds at all. if i have to make the deal look more palatable, you can have them. i can get them elsewhere or pull a reaves on you and get my guy anyway.

IF the knicks would actually make this deal, i'm all over it yesterday. i don't think they're ready to do that, though (see: all my other posts on this subject).

 

Yeah I’m wary of trading our only non-Westbrook tradeable salaries for two guys that are struggling on the Knicks. I’d rather add a first to the Bev/Nunn combo to get a better haul than settling for Fournier/Reddish even if it only required second rounders.

But if I’m overestimating the value of Bev/Nunn/FRP and there aren’t really any great offers coming to the table for that, then sure Fournier and Reddish for some seconds wouldn’t be bad.

Maintains both the FRPs to potentially attach to Westbrook if a homerun deal does emerge out of nowhere on that front.

 

Yeah, that trade would be fine. Also addition by subtraction with Jones going out. No picks though.

 

Wow @karacha I don’t pay attention to other teams’ players but you sold me on him. Subconsciously I pictured a dude with the name of Evan Fournier to be a puny euro weakling. Certainly not big and strong with a high volume sweet looking shot.

 

Oh hell yeah for him looking at that compilation and what I hear about Reddish’s size and great “potential”. If we could pull that off without Russ at this point … seems like a win to me and a real upgrade size and skills wise.

 

Lakers need to fire Rob & hire Putin. He traded Britney Griner for Merchant of Death straight up! Damn.

 

1. Beverly/Nunn/Jones for Fournier/Reddish

2. Westbrook for Rozier/Hayward

PG-Rozier/Shroeder/Pippen
SG-Walker/Reaves/Christie
SF-Fournier/Reddish/Hayward
PF-Davis/Brown/JTA/Swider
C-Davis/Bryant/Wenyan

Lakers in theory improve their three-point shooting, add wings with size, and do not have to trade any picks. They may even be able to get some seconds back from one or both teams. Lakers take on a significant amount of salary for 2023-2024, but they will be expiring contracts that season. We would still be armed with picks too. Decent plan.

 

If anyone else here is not familiar with Fournier and wants clarification on what he looks like, I suggest just watching the video karacha posted. Contrary to his own advice do NOT do a Google Image search of his last name.



Basketball Reference even lists his nickname as “Don’t Google” lmao