He's gonna make that All-NBA money though.
Utah Trade Deadline Discussion
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Coach Ellis
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Possibly. Wouldn’t be surprised if he’s overlooked for the early part of his career.
MVP next year book that ****.
Dali
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If I was part of the Philly FO, In my personal estimation Saric would be almost untouchable along with Embiid and Simmons obviously.
Saric has shown to be the third best player on that team throughout most of the season, and at times was the best player in some games. He is their best hustle guy and has shown more heart than probably all other Sixers players, especially during their down games.
This leads me to my point that it won't, well at least it shouldn't be easy to pry him from Philly. Most of the trade suggestions revolving him in this thread I would imagine the Sixers would scoff at. I would scoff at them. I don't think we have enough to entice Philly about Saric, in terms of which players we would make available.
Saric has shown to be the third best player on that team throughout most of the season, and at times was the best player in some games. He is their best hustle guy and has shown more heart than probably all other Sixers players, especially during their down games.
This leads me to my point that it won't, well at least it shouldn't be easy to pry him from Philly. Most of the trade suggestions revolving him in this thread I would imagine the Sixers would scoff at. I would scoff at them. I don't think we have enough to entice Philly about Saric, in terms of which players we would make available.
zyzz
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I think this is what DL is trying to do. Also Tony Jones shoots down every fan-suggested trade on twitter, except ones for Jabari and Aaron Gordon. I think they're going hard after Jabari. Hopefully Justin Zanik knows some insider stuff from his time with the Bucks, like how much they're willing to pay in him RFA, or which comibination of Middleton/Jabari/Brogdon they want to pay in a year.
elan_prodigy
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Does bringing back Jabari before the all star break mean they are shopping him??
I agree with most of this. I would be surprised if Philly moved Saric. He's a good young player on a cheap rookie contract. And he seems to fit in nicely next to Simmons and Embiid. I don't see what incentive they would have to want to move him. I don't think he's untouchable but I think it would take a great offer to influence the 76ers to move him.
zyzz
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I have no idea if they're shopping him, I just think he's a big target for DL. Either way, the Bucks are going to be in a tough position to pay Jabari in 2018, Middleton and Brogdon in 2019, and THEN give Giannis a supermax in 2021. So I think this is why Utah wants to keep a lot of cap flexibility in 2018 and 2019.
Coach Ellis
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Honestly, I’d rather have Aaron Gordon. Investing a boatload of money in Jabari and praying he stay healthy is a bad idea.
But on the real, if you can get Aaron Gordon and he keeps up this Millsapian grind towards improving, that's pretty much perfect, right?
For the record, I have not been an avid supporter of getting Gordon and am not so certain he keeps improving. But holy moly would that rule to both get him and have that happen.
For the record, I have not been an avid supporter of getting Gordon and am not so certain he keeps improving. But holy moly would that rule to both get him and have that happen.
Hopefully they stop that dumb rule before Donovan qualifies for that.
elan_prodigy
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Also if they pay Jabari and something happens theyve thrown a massive spanner in the works in terms of maximising Giannis.
elan_prodigy
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With Jabari you hope he stays healthy.
With Gordon you hope he can play...
Both are risks. Theres a chance neither will get the max.
elan_prodigy
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Those contracts are brutal!!!
And its having an opposite effect. Was brought in so teams could keep their superstars but instead teams are shipping their stars out so they dont have to pay 35% of their cap to 1 dude.
I know its a different topic but getting rid of the designated player and max contracts is the way to go.
LoPo
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Here we go....
The new regime of Jeff Weltman and John Hammond has left no stone unturned with the deadline approaching, including quietly gauging the trade market on Aaron Gordon, league sources told The Athletic.
http://hoopshype.com/storyline/aaron-gordon-trade/
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The new regime of Jeff Weltman and John Hammond has left no stone unturned with the deadline approaching, including quietly gauging the trade market on Aaron Gordon, league sources told The Athletic.
http://hoopshype.com/storyline/aaron-gordon-trade/
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MDAV28
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This tells me don't trade for him and just sign him in FA.
LoPo
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True MDAV. If they are shopping Gordon because they might not want to pay him, then we could go after him now and clear off another contract they are trying to dump.
If we took contracts, Orlando would probably sell low. Having the ability to match would be huge.
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If we took contracts, Orlando would probably sell low. Having the ability to match would be huge.
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Coach Ellis
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Jazz will be hard pressed to get value for their expirings AND clear enough cap space to sign him up to an offer sheet that the Magic won’t match. If the Jazz can work out a deal that involves taking on Fournier’s contract and doesn’t get stupid with draft picks. . . I’d go for it.
Mitchell, Fournier, Jingles, Gordon and Gobert would be a great core to start with and then tweak the pieces. Mitchell, Gordon and Gobert on the same team would lead to some exciting above the rim play.