2025-26 Team Developments: Trades / Free Agents / News / Rumors / Ideas

I hear you. What do you recommend?

 

Not sure Herb Jones is better than the current play of Vando right now.

I’d prefer to trade with OKC than the Pelicans. Their players have been brought along in a winning culture, playing the right way and experiencing playoff basketball. That means a lot. I’d try to go for two of Hartenstein, Dort and Ajay Mitchell.

They need to cut salary to keep the team together so I wouldn’t mind sending them the three firsts to trade with us. You know they’re licking their lips thinking they can keep replacing rotation players on the cheap through the draft.

Smart / Kennard
Reaves / LaRavia
Dort / Vando
Luka / Rui
IHart / Hayes

We need another 3&D guard that can be our POA defender. Not sure who we could slot in that 3&D slot as a pseudo PG. Maybe we can convince Keon Ellis to sign with us?

 

Yeah, the Pelicans trade is not a be all end all, just a potential option. I packaged Herb and Missi together more to keep things simple. I have brought up absorbing Dort's 18.2 million too. But I like how we could cleanly fit Jones, Missi, and Watson. It would be harder to do with Dort, since he makes around 4 million more than Herb. I like Mitchell too, although he has a very small contract so maybe less urgent from OKC, although he is expiring. I like Hartenstein, but I'm not a fan of the fit with us. There were a few people not crazy about my OKC ideas too. As fans we shouldn't be so rigid about the exact players we get. I'm open minded about it.