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Does Lauri Get Traded?

Does Lauri Get Dealt Before The Season Starts?

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HermanG said:
One thing to consider is who will be the team leader if you trade the winning vets?

I would be worried about culture if Key was the best player left behind.
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Collins or sexton or whoever is left. I think we are keeping Lauri. So also him.
 
I'm getting the feeling Lauri does the R&E and sticks around to play with all the kids. They are probably stuck with both JC's for another season due to bad contracts and Clarkson's horrible season.

That basically leaves Sexton+Kessler to be potentially dealt. With the upcoming '25 draft this is not the season to get cute by winning a few extra games for the sake of acquiring an additional highly protected pick at the deadline. Just a thought but the Lakers desperately need a center and some athleticism in their backcourt. They have picks and swaps to deal along with a bunch of tradable salary. It's not enough to meet Ainge's demands for Lauri but they have enough assets for Kexton. Ainge has also dealt with the Lakers several times recently for THT and then again in the Conley/Vando trade.
 
HermanG said:
If the question says: "If we trade the winning vets" then "winning vets" is not really an answer.

I am interested in how you feel about that hypothetical though.
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I don't think its possible to trade them all... may not even be able to trade a couple of them? So I'm not too worried. If you traded them all I don't mind Key being a "leader" but Hardy would likely take up that mantle even more than he does now.
 
HermanG said:
One thing to consider is who will be the team leader if you trade the winning vets?

I would be worried about culture if Key was the best player left behind.
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Lauri

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I also think the middle class of player is being squeezed a bit in trade and dollar. So big premiums for premium players but others like Ingram have no market. So I wonder if the return on guys like Kessler and Sexton would be really poor. Like I would have though DFS and Cam Johnson would have been moved but nah. Young and Ingram had no interest and Lavine is seen as a big liability.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I also think the middle class of player is being squeezed a bit in trade and dollar. So big premiums for premium players but others like Ingram have no market. So I wonder if the return on guys like Kessler and Sexton would be really poor. Like I would have though DFS and Cam Johnson would have been moved but nah. Young and Ingram had no interest and Lavine is seen as a big liability.
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To some degree I think Ingram and Lauri are holding up the market, but I agree this could be happening.
 
HermanG said:
If the question says: "If we trade the winning vets" then "winning vets" is not really an answer.

I am interested in how you feel about that hypothetical though.
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Do you think the hypothetical of trading sexton, Collins, Clarkson, and Lauri happens? What do you think the odds are on that?

But ya if it did happen then I would have to go with Keyonte as the leader. Or just Hardy.

Though if we traded all 4 of those dudes then odds that not a single vet comes back to us in the trades is also pretty small imo

So with odds that low I wouldn't really worry about that hypothetical

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Handlogten's Heros said:
I don't think its possible to trade them all... may not even be able to trade a couple of them? So I'm not too worried. If you traded them all I don't mind Key being a "leader" but Hardy would likely take up that mantle even more than he does now.
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Damn
I posted my answer before reading yours.

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It's interesting that the league and analytics have progressed so much so that a guy like Lauri seems to have such a higher market value than Ingram. It feels like it wasn't that long ago that Ingram could be considered a higher value piece than Lauri.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
I also think the middle class of player is being squeezed a bit in trade and dollar. So big premiums for premium players but others like Ingram have no market. So I wonder if the return on guys like Kessler and Sexton would be really poor. Like I would have though DFS and Cam Johnson would have been moved but nah. Young and Ingram had no interest and Lavine is seen as a big liability.
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I hadn't really thought about the nets since the Bridges trade but it is kind of surprising that we aren't hearing anything about DFS and Johnson being shopped.
 
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