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i like garland but his myriad health issues concern me. it's AD-like in that none of them are career-threatening, but there's always something.

that said, i wasn't sold on the clips' cap space plan for 2027, and garland can reasonably replace harden when he's healthy.

not exactly sure what cleveland's thinking these days, tbh. i suppose here the worst case is harden flops and you got off garland's contract, but if harden was agitating for an extension, wouldn't that be part of the discussion here?

 

what will we do with all of the Lion tshirts tho?

 

They may want to move Mobley to center full time and go more 5 out? In that case that much money in Allen doesn't make sense?
I don't know kind of shocked as I think Cleveland had a good trade dealing dumping Hunter for Ellis

 

I understand that's his preference but I think he has a higher preference for advancing in the playoffs. Allen wasn't on that list either.

 

Allen wasn't on that list because it was given to Rob leading up to the previous deadline when Cavs were the best team in the East and Allen wasn't on the block. All those names on that list were in full rumor mill rotation, even if some were going to cost a fortune.

You can tell your franchise cornerstone you know better, certainly. As a GM/ president of operations, that's your prerogative. But until we put a more competent team around him, I'd be looking to bank as much good will as possible.

 

clips would blow it all up if they were smart. they don't have control over a FRP until 2030

 

Allen better than Ayton but he's big softie - he just got punked in the playoffs. I mean he's carrying the soft as charmin label.

 

I hear you, but I'm not convinced that is a deal breaker, for Luka here in anyway. I think he wants the best opportunity to win, right now more. He also says that he wants to compete for a chip this season. We also have to pay attention to that desire as well.

On a different track here..you have to consider how Luka views this Lebron situation too. You don't think he's paying close attention,
to how we are moving with LeBron?

I imagine Luka is thinking, damn..if we can't go all in with LeBron, him and Austin, now, because we want to preserve some damn cap space this summer, we can do the same s*** to him down the road.

LeBron is a GOAT level player, he brought this franchise a chip, and won it for Kobe no less! The dude is still playing at an All star level. We are supposed to just say f*** that, we need this cap space this summer? I really don't think that is banking goodwill with Luka either.

 

Another rumor going around today is something like Sabonis for Barrett + Agbaji. There'd have to be more/a third team. Wonder if we could peel Barrett off in that deal. The thought of LaVine/DeRozan/Murray/Hunter/Barrett/Monk/Russ all being in Sacramento makes my head hurt.