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Bogdanovic, Barnes? Who else?

 

One of OG or Gary Trent Jr

 

A lot of players are having bad seasons from three. Bojan is having a good year. Idk if the Lakers are just going by who is shooting good this year though.

 

That would be very good.

 

Both are good and young. Trent is another guy that is having a bad year from three, in case you care about that.

 

I mean if shooting is the main aim of the trade..it's kind of important right?Some of our guys should shoot better when AD gets back.

 

Wood or Turner

 

Or...

 

he's not going anywhere unless the lakers tell him straight up that they're not going to draft or sign bronny

 

rival execs chumming the waters. whatevs, hope you have some picks to pony up, because he's got one year left before he can leave of his own accord, and he'll be a) another year older and b) giving up a HUGE chunk of change to join a ready-made contender at that point.

in a trade with a contender, the salary matching alone means we probably do better than had we just let him walk and tried to use space to rebuild.

another reason he should have been more thoughtful about that extension.

also, if i were rob, i'd be calling random reporters and just choosing star players on other teams and saying i'm prepping for their trade demand this summer, as that's what this story is.

 

Latest from Stein...

On the Lakers

On Toronto's plans, seems Trent is the only attainable player

Bulls unsure of their path (never have and still don't buy in to any buzz of them blowing it up... makes zero sense for Reinsdorf)

THJ available

Clarity on his earlier reported Clarkson situation. In short, Jazz want to keep him. He's looking for upwards of $20m a year.

A non-update update on Turner's situation

 

the red is important, and i'm glad stein foregrounds it, because it's in service of the green.

trent remains interesting, even if i'm not sure he really solves problems here. same with THJ, though he's got three more years on that contract, so i'm probably out there unless dallas wants to give us a pick to take him.

the clarkson situation is as i said the other day--they can't extend him because the raises are too low for his market value, and utah's not in indy's cap situation that they're trying to work to keep turner.

 

We need size and defense at the 3 position . Guarding the likes of Doncic , Tatum and so on with Beverley or Westbrook is not serious

Which SFs are realistically available ?

 

I'm not sure, but there is a premium on those guys. It might cost as much to get a mediocre one of those as an elite three-point shooter.

 

As far as available wings in general: Cam, Fournier, Ross, Harris, THJ, Trent, Crowder (f*** him), Maxey, Barton, Richardson, Bogdanovic.

Might be forgetting a couple.

Honestly, what we're moving off of is as big as what we'd be bringing in at this point. Just go out there and get a talent upgrade with the Bev, Nunn, Jones protected 1st or multiple 2nds package.

I don't care that Bev found his J. He's weighing down the rest of the roster. DS is better without him, Walker is barely playable next to him, he eats into minutes for Brown and AR. Nunn had one good game in 1.5 seasons. A 3 for 2 also clears another roster spot. We clearly want a 3rd big going off our workouts.

I do a 3 for 2 for the best deal we can get then add Boogie and Josh Jackson and I think we're going places. Sterling Brown isn't it. I think Jackson could have a similar rise that Stan had with us.

 

Yeah, I was kind of thinking along those lines too. It might be more worthwhile just to upgrade our shooting.

 

yeah, it's just not an appealing crop.

and i actually do think that bevs rediscovering his shot changes things a bit for me. i'm still interested moving him, but i'm not sure i agree that getting off him is that important anymore. and it actually might open up more trade scenarios, as he could be viewed as having value beyond an expiring contract. so in a knicks deal, we're not only taking on fournier, but we're giving them a rotation player for two guys out of their rotation. feel like that now warrants compensation coming our way in the form of picks or additional players.

i mentioned kyle anderson/prince for bev/nunn the other day, but i'm not sure minny goes for it even with their love of bev. worth a call, imo.

reggie bullock has been bad for dallas this year, and mcgee has been worse. but we've liked mcgee here and traded for reggie once before? would you consider:

bev/jones for mcgee/bullock/2 2nds (we're eating mcgee's ugly contract)

then route those 2nds with nunn for reddish?

you do this, you add two good-sized wings and a backup center.

 

I'd try to go for Anunoby.

He's probably the best 3&D available, but his value is at an all time low. Having a down year from 3 pt%, and the Raptors stink so they should be sellers. Maybe we could get him with 1 FRP + a couple of seconds instead of the 2 FRPs.

maybe we could take Otto Porter as well to sweeten the deal. He'd be useful for us if/when healthy.

 

i'd love it, but stein has been swearing up and down that anunoby is going to be expensive. and he doesn't seem to think a 1st for bogdanovic is that expensive, so i'm guessing the bidding starts at 2 of them.