Suns Jazz Trade Rumor

[NUMBERICA]

Can we just undo the Simone trade? Would rather have him than either a 3rd rookie or the 22nd pick.

 

[Coach Ellis]

Can we just undo the Simone trade? Would rather have him than either a 3rd rookie or the 22nd pick.

Did not like that trade at the time. Still don’t.

 

[David Stern]

Can we just undo the Simone trade? Would rather have him than either a 3rd rookie or the 22nd pick.

Well he’s a free agent, so there’s a pretty quick way to remedy it

 

[HermanG]

Well he’s a free agent, so there’s a pretty quick way to remedy it

RFA unfortunately.

 

[NUMBERICA]

Did not like that trade at the time. Still don’t.

The best thing about the trade is it helped the Jazz become a truly terrible team and keep the pick (and position themselves for an organically high 2025 pick). At least I think that was a good thing.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Neither Clarkson or Collins is a positive asset that will move us up in the draft unless we are taking back a worse contract. Boy was last offseason a swing and a miss with those 2 guys.

I think the idea with them in a trade is that if you are including future assets to move up, you can attach one of those two to make it a better deal for Utah. So yeah, they wouldn't help you move up, but you can offload them while doing so

 

[The Jazz Wonderbra]

Yep. No way we keep all three of our picks. Wouldn't be surprised if we trade out of tomorrow's draft completely

The one thing that I keep thinking about is when Ainge had 5 or 6 picks (including 2nd round) during a draft year with the Celtics and he didn't trade a single pick in spite of lots of interest.

He ended up with Jaylen Brown and...

Guerschon Yabusele
Ante Zizic
Demetrius Jackson
Ben Bentil
Abdel Nader

3 of those players didn't even make a season in the league. Nader was a summer league intrigue at best. Yabuwho?

There were tons of teams looking to trade in to that draft and the Celtics could have traded for future draft picks worst case but they opted to draft the world of wannabes instead.

 

[The Jazz Wonderbra]

He followed the 2016 draft by getting...

Jayson Tatum and...

Semi Ojeleye
Kadeem Allen
Jabari Bird

The point being that he drafted 10 players in 2 drafts in spite of having a young team.

Drafting is sometimes like throwing darts I guess. Ainge killed it at the top but then it was a lot of misses.

 

[homeytennis]

We thought we struck gold five years ago with Brantley, JWF and Oni. How did they turn out?

 

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We thought we struck gold five years ago with Brantley, JWF and Oni. How did they turn out?

We did?