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2025 Off-Season Trade Ideas Thread

gomretat said:
You are assuming that moving him when and IF he gets healthy is easy. I think that is a huge leap and hand cuffs you on all kind of other options because of his salary. We cant even move Clarkson or Collins and you think moving a questionable Dame is easy? Huge risk with the only payback is more "assets" in form of questionable draft picks.
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You are assuming I am assuming that... I am not at all. We made our profit on the buy side of the equation. Dame if moved a year later it would likely be as the salary medium for a big trade (someone tearing down and we give picks and Dame). It would be more likely he has to be bought out to get to a contender but in either case... the assets are all on the front end of the deal.
 
KqWIN said:
I actually think the guy to target there is Gafford. McMahon has already reported that he wants to get paid. Nico cut bait quickly with Grimes because he was afraid to pay him, so he might do the same with Gafford. I know AD does not want to play C at all, but it's a heavy investment to have two C's when they should really be thinking about running some AD+Flagg at the 5 and 4 lineups in the playoffs. I like the option of going to Lively at the 5 or going smaller with AD+Flagg+PJ in the front court.

The trade I mentioned before is:

Gafford -> LAL
Sexton -> DAL
Vando+Picks from LAL -> UTA

Ironically, these would be the same teams involved in the Luka deal.
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I think PJ makes a bit more sense if the goal is maximize the non-Kyrie year. AD is just so injury prone along with Lively missing a ton of time this past season I think they may want that insurance.

On the wings they have Flagg/Klay/Max/Naji/Martin, so I think they are fine on wing depth without PJ.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
I think PJ makes a bit more sense if the goal is maximize the non-Kyrie year. AD is just so injury prone along with Lively missing a ton of time this past season I think they may want that insurance.

On the wings they have Flagg/Klay/Max/Naji/Martin, so I think they are fine on wing depth without PJ.
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I think PJ would get more on the trade market than Gafford too... I could actually see them moving both.
 
What does Minnesota do this offseason. Cap situation pretty bad... definitely try to keep Naz unless he gets something ridiculous. Randle may give them a discount and opt out to get more long term money. They move Conley/Rudy/Donte to make the budget work? NAW definitely gone.

They look pretty rough right now. Think this iteration has hit a ceiling hard.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
What does Minnesota do this offseason. Cap situation pretty bad... definitely try to keep Naz unless he gets something ridiculous. Randle may give them a discount and opt out to get more long term money. They move Conley/Rudy/Donte to make the budget work? NAW definitely gone.

They look pretty rough right now. Think this iteration has hit a ceiling hard.
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Their tax situation isn't horrible next year if they can get Randle to take like $25M instead of opting in and if they can keep Naz at like 20-22M to start. They should be like 6-9M into the tax... this year was the giant tax year though so the budget may already be suffering.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
What does Minnesota do this offseason. Cap situation pretty bad... definitely try to keep Naz unless he gets something ridiculous. Randle may give them a discount and opt out to get more long term money. They move Conley/Rudy/Donte to make the budget work? NAW definitely gone.

They look pretty rough right now. Think this iteration has hit a ceiling hard.
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Sadly Naz playing like *** right now so they may be able to keep him.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Spurs might be looking at dealing two and more pieces for Giannis or 2 for Lauri.

Lauri is cheaper, a better fit, and younger on a longer contract.
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Lauri’s also never won jackshit. The idea of Lauri is a poor man’s KD. Except that idea of him as the #2 (or #1 like KD) on a title team is really still just a dream.

Trading the #2 pick, who is just 19 years old and in many years would be the #1 pick, and who’s also on a super cheap contract for a 28 year old Lauri would be foolish imo. Especially considering Wemby’s health concerns.

Trade everything but Wemby, Castle, and #2 to get a piece. That’s what they should do.
 
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Elizah Huge said:
I just sent Locke a message. Dude needs to brush up his knowledge around the edges. He keeps saying Lauri isn’t trade eligible until August. He was trade eligible as of February 7th.
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I feel like I am one of the least informed jazz fanz posters on salary stuff and trade stuff and things of that nature and I knew he could be traded as of a while ago even if I didn't know the exact date.
Locke should definitely know that info.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
What does Minnesota do this offseason. Cap situation pretty bad... definitely try to keep Naz unless he gets something ridiculous. Randle may give them a discount and opt out to get more long term money. They move Conley/Rudy/Donte to make the budget work? NAW definitely gone.

They look pretty rough right now. Think this iteration has hit a ceiling hard.
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Also, I think they lucked out with matchups in the playoffs and are fools gold being in the WCF.
Lakers were the worst team in the playoffs outside lebron and luka. They had the worst depth, no size, and worst role players and their stars have major warts with lebron being over 40 years old and luka fat and out of shape and playing the worst defense in the history of the league.
Then they get an aging warriors team that lost steph early in the series.

They got issues and Gobert and conley are only getting older. Have some pretty big contracts. The thing they have going for them is Ant being very young (and im high on Naz) and thats about it really. I guess donte d could still take a leap but I dont buy this T wolves team going forwards.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Who do you think Orlando takes with their late teens pick? Jase seems like a perfect fit, but he is small so they might fade him given their particular taste
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I would hope they don't draft for current need but they also need shooters long term. McNeeley or Jase could be targets but its hard to say without knowing who is on board. Clayton, Fleming, Coward could all offer something there as shooters. I think the combine measurements will push him down a bit.
 
Basketball Novice said:
Good god, that tax bill...

Is there a way we can take advantage? Gonna have to think it over.
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The Celtics need to split Jrue or Porzingis into several small contracts that the tanking teams with MLEs can absorb. The Jazz would then be able to absorb some of broken up contracts using their MLE.

Or the Celtics can trade Jrue or Porzingis to the Nets directly but the Nets may be able to extort them if the Celtics can't split these contracts into several guys. The Nets are basically the only team that can offer more than $14m in cap savings and Jrue and KP make over $30m.
 
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