2019/20 Players' Transactions: Breaking News , Trades, Free Agents, And Rumors

he's young, exciting, their best player, and they're terrible. i'd take calls on trades, but i wouldn't make them.

no, but i don't feel comfortable trading them for space and mediocre picks, either.

 

at this pt i bet rob/magic wouldnt even put their job on the line for just 1 max fa this off season

 

The empire stikes again.

 

Well said. And if we can get rid of Deng while doing so, even better.

Randle and Clarkson have pretty much peaked, so we know what we're getting if we hang onto them.

 

seriously....we dont know if randle will add a jump shot n 3pt shot yet, a 35% ish 3pt shooting with 45-47% mid range would make randle a totally different beast. jc has peaked but his stats could look better if he got more pt

 

dall would eat contracts 4 picks but nobody will give pure expiring for deng/assets...so i suggests this
deng/2020 1st top 5 protected 1st for Powell/maybe a 2nd rd if rob is good at his job....

this gives us plan A n plan B. Powell makes 9mill less than deng for 18-19 season, so if we move both randle n clarkson we'd have 2 max. BUT if you just move jc n stretch powell, now you have 2 max n some left to offer to randle

thoughts?

 

When is he going to add those elements to his game? Next year? Two years?

Don't get me wrong here... I'm not saying I want them off the team... I just don't expect to see any big leaps in their game moving forward. Yes, Randle has been improving; I just think we should capitalize on that current opinion in order to dump Deng (as unlikely as it seems for any organization to take on his contract).

** Edit: I imagine Randle being very effective when we get a star or two on the team. That goes for a lot of these guys on the roster right now. But what's clear at this point is that they will never be that star to lead the team.

 

girffin didnt have a 3pt shot till maybe his 5th yr, love wasnt shooting 3s at high volume till his 4th yr....so i dont know n its not guranteed, thats the risk youd have to take...n randle has those shots just need the % to improve

 

i've proposed the bones of this for weeks.

randle/deng for powell/mcroberts/noel

you can sub devin harris for mcbobs (or noel), too.

it's essentially stretch-waiving deng but getting a useful piece (i wouldn't cut powell, he's worth his salary, imo).

i think it works for both teams. dallas doesn't need the cap space right now, and they'd probably like to control randle's RFA.

 

I dont want to include Randle, my ver would at least give us the OPT to keep Randle if JC is moved for expiring. I'd cut Powell if Randle could be retained but if Randle is moved in a seperate deal then yes I would keep Powell. I dont see the pt in expanding the trade to include randle, I value him more than the 2020 pick, we have more enough youth to develop...

 

i'm wary of giving away 1sts at this point. at the rate we've been going, that could be another top 10 pick we convey.

also, dallas apparently wants randle.

 

increase the protection then, to top 10 and lower as we go. I'm sure at least 1 of these 2 scenario happen by then, either we're middling treadmill team as ball/ingram/kuzma would be 3rd/4th yr players by then and or we have at least 1 max guy thats good on the team by 2020, should at least be bottom half playoff team

 

same idea/goal after season is over, if Queen james leaves clev, doesnt have to come to la

deng/2019 top 10 protected 1 with decling for jr smith.

smith had 14mill due next yr n partial gurantee after that (bout 4mill i think) we would stretch out 18mill over 5 season....saves us boat loads of $

 

I like this just because makes sense knowing how much Dal wants Randle. I don't like it cause I still don't know what to do with it he Randle.

We get that back up pg with Harris, Powell is a Nance lone but easier contract to deal with, and maybe Noel gets his head out of his a** and be the perfect C we need.