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Trade Rumors Involving the Jazz

The Pistons are just at the beginning of their rebuild so it may convey or it may not.

Either way the Knicks wonder why they’re always terrible and then pay guys like Randle and Brunson near max money.
It will convey lol...
 
Dallas has Luka so they also have to think about the long game. If your second max contract dude is Brunson I don’t think it makes it pretty tough to reasonable expect a title.
They have no way to add another max guy... so instead of Brunson at 5/125M they have nothing. I'm sure Luka will be super happy they let a dude walk to save some money.

They could waive and stretch Bertans or find a home for Powell if they are concerned on the tax. It is really a one year crunch... The warriors wouldn't let the guy walk I'll tell ya that. If the numbers get rough you just trade him later (he's good enough that someone would give some value). Or you trade Dinwiddie/TH later.

They muffed this extension start to finish. Worked out great for the Western Conference.
 
Barrett/Fournier plus their 2023/2025/2027/2029 unprotected firsts and pick swap options in 2024/2026/2028.

They also own these picks too. New York has a **** ton of picks to work with I have no idea what @Hearsky is saying lmao.

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I love me some Slow Mo. Will Hardy was also with him in SAS. Whatever direction we go, we need some A+ locker room guys who can hopefully unearth the horrible habits the Jazz have developed over the past couple of years.
Slow Mo would bring us that playmaker off the bench we severely missed after losing Ingles
 
They have no way to add another max guy... so instead of Brunson at 5/125M they have nothing. I'm sure Luka will be super happy they let a dude walk to save some money.

They could waive and stretch Bertans or find a home for Powell if they are concerned on the tax. It is really a one year crunch... The warriors wouldn't let the guy walk I'll tell ya that. If the numbers get rough you just trade him later (he's good enough that someone would give some value). Or you trade Dinwiddie/TH later.

They muffed this extension start to finish. Worked out great for the Western Conference.
Brunson isn't a max guy and would've limited their flexibility for the next 5 years. I think they'll be fine with Dinwiddie/THJ.

The Warriors don't let guys walk because they've won four titles in 8 years. Dallas has won 2 playoff series since 2011.

Brunson at 5 yr/$125M is hard to move in a trade.
 
Brunson isn't a max guy and would've limited their flexibility for the next 5 years. I think they'll be fine with Dinwiddie/THJ.

The Warriors don't let guys walk because they've won four titles in 8 years. Dallas has won 2 playoff series since 2011.

Brunson at 5 yr/$125M is hard to move in a trade.
Or do they win title because they don't let guys walk lol. If they had said we will be fine without Russell and not overpaid him they wouldn't have Wiggins... which means they don't win the title this year...

Dallas doesn't have flexibility. If you are Luka all you really care is that Dallas had a chance to build/improve off a team that just lost in the conference finals to the eventual champion... and rather than retain the second best player they had in that run (and a guy who improves every year) they opted to save money. Not to mention the cap is set for another dramatic increase... so its a short term bullet to bite and they said "nah we probably good with Dinwiddie and THJ"
 
Brunson isn't a max guy and would've limited their flexibility for the next 5 years. I think they'll be fine with Dinwiddie/THJ.

The Warriors don't let guys walk because they've won four titles in 8 years. Dallas has won 2 playoff series since 2011.

Brunson at 5 yr/$125M is hard to move in a trade.

Define what you mean by fine? They literally got worse this off-season. Trust me there are plenty of teams would would sign Brunson for that if they could. He’s likely to be the best version of himself without Luka because he will have the ball more in his hands as the primary playmaker.
 
Define what you mean by fine? They literally got worse this off-season. Trust me there are plenty of teams would would sign Brunson for that if they could. He’s likely to be the best version of himself without Luka because he will have the ball more in his hands as the primary playmaker.
There are a lot of teams that would pay Brunson who's a 16/4/4 player $30M+???
 
Or do they win title because they don't let guys walk lol. If they had said we will be fine without Russell and not overpaid him they wouldn't have Wiggins... which means they don't win the title this year...

Dallas doesn't have flexibility. If you are Luka all you really care is that Dallas had a chance to build/improve off a team that just lost in the conference finals to the eventual champion... and rather than retain the second best player they had in that run (and a guy who improves every year) they opted to save money. Not to mention the cap is set for another dramatic increase... so its a short term bullet to bite and they said "nah we probably good with Dinwiddie and THJ"
Going deep in the luxury tax to keep role players around 3 HOFers with multiple championships is basically the same as losing Jalen Brunson.
 
Player A: 15.8 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 3.9 apg on 50/40/72 splits
Player B: 16.3 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 4.8 apg on 50/37/84 splits

Player A is Dinwiddie and B is Brunson. Idk how Dallas will ever recover.
 
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