OKC is the team with the sort of capital that could use Bridges.
If Brookyn moves Bridges, they're tanking, and the best picks they can get are their own. Those are owned by Houston, who wants Bridges and also has a surpluss of young guys with potential. If I'm Houston I ask for all my picks back (2 picks, 2 swaps), plus a couple of prospects and be done with it.
I think Houston has already asked but won't trade back the picks BKN owes them. Similar to theoretical trades for Murray to SAS.
I definitely think this is what’s going on (re Houston), though, I agree he’d be sick on OKC.
BKN holding the line now, but do they really pass on a deal for say Green, Eason, and getting their 24FRP back (and whatever SRPs they want)?
I actually think that’s may even be an overpay for Bridges.
Hopefully Lavine avoids being traded and comes back just healthy enough to give the Spurs the Bulls pick next year.
lmao the agency shouldn't be in that room
Klutch breaks a lot of rules. It’s a horrible conflict of interest to have the league’s brightest stars own a representation agency with hundreds of clients league wide.
Cameron Johnson with the Nets might be a good target. If the Nets do make a deal on Bridges (Hou for their picks back) then they'll blow it up. CJ would look pretty good next to Sochan.
Green's been a huge disappointment so far, so that would be a bargain for Houston to land Bridges.
Cam Johnson would be nice as here but I'd rather not see Houston able to flip Green into Bridges. The West is already ridiculous enough.
Curious to see if any moves happen. This is one of the most quiet trade deadlines in recent memory for the league. Androgynous Adam has to be so sad.
Yup... I'm guessing maybe one minor trade today...maybe one decent trade tomorrow and a bunch of little trades on Thursday that don't move the needle, but address some salary implications this summer..
In fairness, we had a handful of major trades last month in OG, Pasqual, Rozier. I dont really recall those types of deals happening the month before the deadline like that.
I think we’re getting into a unique era where so many players have forced trades that so few teams have the assets to make trades. No sense in waiting for the last hour before the deadlines up if there aren’t any legitimate buyers that are capable of driving up the price at the last minute.
A lot of teams are fully leveraged. I’ve always thought the FO has done a good of keeping us out of cap and pick .
Likely to be a boring trade deadline and even more likely to be boring for the Spurs, who will not make any significant moves or trades.
That’s a great point regarding the FO.
I have a little bit of a contrarian view. Since so few teams have anything to be buyers with, I'd put in a few low offers on fuys rumored to be on the block and see if anyone bites. If they don't youre not out anything.
I'm pretty sure a couple of teams will try to shed some salary cause of the new cap rules
Reports are suggesting a sluggish midseason trade market for several reasons:
- No one really wants 2024 draft picks, because the class is so weak.
- Contenders don't want to trade future FRPs because they are one of the few ways to improve teams now with onerous apron rules and disappeared free agency.
- The play-in makes more teams think they have a shot at the playoffs resulting in fewer sellers.
So, the currency for movement has slowed down and more people consider themselves relevant meaning they're not dumping players they think they might still need. Future assets are restricting movement because a large percentage of future picks are stuck in the hands of a small percentage of teams. (This makes a team like Spurs buyers, but they are finnicky right now and there aren't actually many sellers.)
basically they're in a recession
There might indeed be a way to grab a couple quality vets, the new apron rules could potentially be extremely brutal for some teams. You can already see their repercussions.
One problem teams over the tax apron (first or second, don't remember) is they can't pick up veterans who have been bought out whose salary was over the MLE. May have the details wrong. But essentially if Gordon Hayward got bought-out/waived by Charlotte, a lot of contenders couldn't pick him up because his salary was too high.
That's potentially huge.
Spurs will sell McDermott Osman and Graham and move along as they should.
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