2024-25 Team Developments: Trades / Free Agents / News / Rumors / Ideas

JSM · Jan 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM

abeer3 said: ↑

i may look dumb later, but assuming the same price, i'm actually taking vuc over capela. and i'm traditionally a defense over offense guy.
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I don't think it's the same price cause Chicago is ran by some lunatics who are out of touch with reality. Have been for decades. They overvalue their assets and hold on to them for years too long. If it's Vuc for a 1st vs CC for 2nds, give me Clint.

I think Rob needs to ask AD and JJ to a degree, what's more important: a big to play next to AD or a big who can prevent the walls from caving in when he sits. We can get someone who can do one of the two, but probably not both unless Indy changes their tune. Then go get that guy.

Slick2021 · Jan 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM

What NTMLE level guards are expected to be bought out? That's all we could sign.

Slick2021 · Jan 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM

JSM said: ↑

I don't think it's the same price cause Chicago is ran by some lunatics who are out of touch with reality. Have been for decades. They overvalue their assets and hold on to them for years too long. If it's Vuc for a 1st vs CC for 2nds, give me Clint.

I think Rob needs to ask AD and JJ to a degree, what's more important: a big to play next to AD or a big who can prevent the walls from caving in when he sits. We can get someone who can do one of the two, but probably not both unless Indy changes their tune. Then go get that guy.
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Depends on the protections on the 1st

JSM · Jan 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM

Weezy said: ↑

Looks like a possible achilles, man that team cannot stay healthy, sad

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It sure was.

Kenzo · Jan 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Damn, gotta feel sorry for the man. I wanted him bad on the Lakers

JSM · Jan 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM

Brooklyn’s Day’Ron Sharpe is starting to look like his old self, playing his best basketball of the season right as the trade deadline approaches.

In a contract year, Sharpe is facing the prospect of being dealt by 3 p.m. Thursday or looking at restricted free agency in the summer.

“I don’t tend to think about it,” Sharpe told The Post. “I just go out there and play hard, you know? Whatever comes, comes with it, God willing. So it is what it is.”

Sharpe shrugged off a hamstring injury that forced him out of the last win over Charlotte, practicing Friday and will be available Saturday in Houston.

A number of teams are showing interest in landing the bruising big man before Thursday.

Or at least in one case, reigniting old interest.

The Lakers are keeping an eye on Sharpe after Anthony Davis prodded them to add another big man.

ClutchPoints reported that L.A. wanted Sharpe in the Dorian Finney-Smith trade, but the Nets demanded more draft picks in compensation, so the Lakers ended up settling for Shake Milton.

Nets GM Sean Marks and Los Angeles’ Rob Pelinka could reengage before the Feb. 6 deadline on Sharpe, who is cheap, still just 23 years old and a strong rebounder.

He likely suits the Lakers, but does he suit their stars?

The Los Angeles Times has reported that Washington’s Jonas Valanciunas is “a known favorite in important pockets of the Lakers locker room.”

But he’s an older back-to-the-basket scorer, one who’ll cost both cap space and assets, and require the offense to run through him.

That doesn’t exactly fit coach JJ Redick’s style.

Though Sharpe is shooting a career-worst 48.2 percent, he did miss the first six weeks of the season with hamstring woes.

When he finally got back on the court, he compromised and averaged just 6.6 points and 5.6 rebounds on 42.2 percent shooting through his first 14 games.

But in 12 games since — starting with 16-point, 13-rebound night Jan. 6 versus Indiana — Sharpe has averaged 8.9 points, 7.2 boards and 54.3 percent shooting.

“I feel a lot better since New Year’s started,” Sharpe told The Post. “I feel like December had to get little kinks out with my body and stuff like that. But I feel a lot better now. I’m just trying to keep that, maintain that … So, staying focused.”
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