I would do B or E, primarily for the draft picks. I would do C as a last resort, because I like Terrence Jones' potential, and we're probably going to lose Al anyway.
A few things:
Nobody's going to offer picks of any serious worth for players they want to keep AND are on expiring deals. I'm pretty sure for players on veteran deals, they can be extended at any point, so that could put Al in some of these discussions since he's a teddy bear and already was cool with getting extended in a trade to ****ING MINNESOTA (even though he could only extend two additional seasons). But that means Millsap is out of these, and really, basically any meaningful trade unless the Jazz are bringing back a player with years on a deal that their team doesn't want to deal with because a team going nowhere will not part with real assets to rent Millsap.
That said, anything involving kicking Al out of Utah and scrubbing him from team history earlier than later is something I'm always interested in. E doesn't seem realistic, but C does (even though the Jazz would HAVE to jettison some other players in some way or other to make it work, which is all the better to me), so that's what I voted for.
This is a trade that could actually happen: https://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=auelwz6
Jazz get NOH 2nd from Phili, which is as good as a late first.
Then ask Bynum where he wants to sign next season and help him get there by facilitating bird rights to a team over the cap.
Nice idea. This is obviously only do-able after you've determined that his Bird rights mean anything... given his health issues. Is he getting that kind of contract?
Good post.
I don"t feel like most of those are all too realistic anyways.. I think they are probably the only type of deals the Jazz would even do. I don't see Koc and Lindsey taking any deals that aren"t ones where they came out at least good to great on their end.
When I did that, C was the one I felt like was most realistic that both could agree to. I would be in favor of it too. I like Terrence Jones. I'm intrigued by his potential.
Bynum is nothing more than salary filler in this trade.
It means moving on from Jefferson, dumping Foye, ridding Bell's salary, getting a meager pick for it, and potentially getting something for Bynum. Noone else wants Jefferson but Phili actually needs him and has motivation to make the trade. Plus, Foye > Nick Young for them as a situation benchie.
A few things:
Nobody's going to offer picks of any serious worth for players they want to keep AND are on expiring deals. I'm pretty sure for players on veteran deals, they can be extended at any point, so that could put Al in some of these discussions since he's a teddy bear and already was cool with getting extended in a trade to ****ING MINNESOTA (even though he could only extend two additional seasons). But that means Millsap is out of these, and really, basically any meaningful trade unless the Jazz are bringing back a player with years on a deal that their team doesn't want to deal with because a team going nowhere will not part with real assets to rent Millsap.
That said, anything involving kicking Al out of Utah and scrubbing him from team history earlier than later is something I'm always interested in. E doesn't seem realistic, but C does (even though the Jazz would HAVE to jettison some other players in some way or other to make it work, which is all the better to me), so that's what I voted for.
this is true for al, but there's no way paul agrees to a veteran extension, because it would be based on his current cap hit, which is extremely low because of how portland front-loaded the RFA deal years ago. so the most he could agree to would be that 3 yr, 25M deal the jazz offered him over the summer that he turned down.
al, though, could be extended up until june 30... but not by his new team. because extend-and-trade rules are more onerous than regular extensions, the new CBA makes it so that a team can't extend a player until 6 months have passed since they acquired him via trade, and by the time 6 months pass, al will already be an UFA. they can extend-and-trade him, but they'd be limited to two additional years with 4.5% increases on this year's salary.
it appears from that list (assuming the list is legitimately a list of dicusssions that have actually taken place) that most teams that are interested in paul/al are looking for the cap relief, not a multi-year commitment. they're teams looking to dump pau, dump jeff green, dump beasley, etc.
Here's another framework, NAOS. What do you think of it? https://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=b98l8uc
I don't know much about Atlanta anymore but they seem happy with Lou Williams. Bynum-Horford-Smoove would be a scary big defense to deal with. Do they turn it down if Bynum & Smoove verbally guarantee to re-sign for X amount?
ATL owns Hou 1st (top 14 protected '13-16), 2014 and 2015 swaption with Brooklyn.
"I think Minnesota at times plays better without Love," Karl said. "They're kind of a machine-like offense. They give guys different opportunities. But they're pretty good."