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

I’d be fine with either honestly.

 

i would, too, but it feels like people would give up a 1st for fvv and don't even want rozier without a pick. to me, neither is worth a pick unless they're coming with other good stuff. and fvv is going to demand one because of his play last year. but if you look at his career, last year was the anomaly so far. both he and rozier are having down years, too. just feel like paying an unprotected 1st and then likely giving him a 4/100+ to keep him would be substantially worse than what people feared we almost did in the schroder situation.

 

I know why our FO would choose FVF over Rozier: he was recently an All STAR.

 

I agree. If it comes down to Rozier and keeping the puck vs Fvv and giving up the puck then I’d take Rozier.

 

Utah and Minnesota really threw off the market. Minnesota gave up too much for Gobert but Utah also traded Bojan for too little.

 

Lakers already tried to trade for both Rozier and Bogdanovic together, when Bojan was with Utah. Both of them fit perfectly in terms of on the court and financially. They are on excellent value contracts. Couldn't get much better in terms of finances. Lakers are likely trying to do the same thing now, and hopefully Rozier is still available.

 

I wonder if Phoenix tries to move Ayton now, Indiana made him an offer, he might be on the move soon.

Detroit has to be posturing with Bogdanovic, he's 10-12 years older than their core group and is under contract for 2 more seasons. They are only 2 games from having the worst record in the League, they can tank it out all the way after they buy out Bev, they might be interested in Walker and a 2nd. No 1st for him IMO.

 

I think Lakers could be targeting Bojan and one other player that makes about 18-25 million. The other player would preferably be somewhat young. This helps with our finances for next season, so we could pay Reaves around 12 million per year, and possibly be under the tax apron, so we could use the MLE worth 10.77 million.

 

It depends on how the rest of the season plays out. Sticking to the young guys specifically, Walker, Bryant, Gabriel, Brown and Christie are a nice collection of young talent. Caruso, Tucker, Reaves and Christie were all 2nd rd picks. We have two 2nds and a first in this upcoming draft. With our recent track record , it's a reasonable expectation that we can find at least 2 kids that can come in and contribute next season. So I'm not soo sure that Rob is thinking about spending "whatever is necessary", to keep Austin.

We can probably get Johnson back on a minimum deal this summer too. If we do make a trade involving Bev and Nunn. and get a player that is under contract for next season. There will be some interesting decisions to be made with these young guys, on who stays and who goes.

 

I don't know how we can keep Walker, Reaves and Bryant. Austin is our RFA we could go over the cap to keep him. Bryant could get bumped up to the MLE. Walker seems like the odd man out, this is why I keep throwing him out there, as a more enticing trade option over Nunn. He's young and on a cheap contract.

 

As far as the right now...I still think that this team " as currently constructed " can still be dangerous, with some luck on the injury front with Anthony, moving forward.

We get these guys back...who should we fear in a 7 game series? Not Denver, Phoenix, Golden State, or Dallas IMO.


https://www.latimes.com/sports/lake...anthony-davis-injury-update-optimistic-return

 

If we deal with SA, we're not getting Poeltl

 

They’re fairly similar players. Terry is a slightly better shooter, FVV is a better playmaker and defender.

Reason I do the FVV trade over Terry is because I’d prefer Gary Trent Jr as the second piece over Oubre or Hayward.

Reasoning: Hayward is broken. Oubre is so incredibly average. Saw this stat today: since 2010 with at least a 1000 attempts - Oubre has the worst layup percentage of any player in the league.

 

They ain't trading Westbrook so it's going to be either Van Vleet or Rozier IMO. BUT do we really need another small guard that's a high volume shooter? Neither are going to get up those same number of shots here. Fred is already talking about he deserves more money than he's getting from Toronto too. I'd be more interested in OG or Chris Boucher in a smaller deal.

Bogdanovic is more efficient on fewer shots than Fred or Terry too. I don't believe that he must come with a FRP attached either.

 

The closer it gets to Feb 9th, the more we get to see who is actually motivated to make a trade or not. I think some of these guys will get moved for a lot less than expected. Folks were talking about how Danny Ainge wasn't going to accept anything less than a 1st for Bogdanovic, that didn't happen either.

 

Ayton could only. Be traded if he agrees to I believe but I can see ayton for m. Turner

 

He wants out of Phoenix..because they aren't going to fire Monty Williams. Indiana makes sense to me, because they already offered him a contract as a RFA. He could end up somewhere else though.

 

https://www.sportsmockery.com/chicago-bulls/breaking-zach-lavine-is-forcing-his-way-to-the-lakers/

 

if phx is smart Indy is your route you move him to the east you get a big who can play just like ayton but if phx wants that type of rental with no guarantees of re signing long term

 

I might be mistaken but I think there is some weird rule about RFA offers. Like he can be traded anywhere but Indiana this season? Something like that involved Bogdanovic from Sacramento before he went to the Hawks?