Spurs trade ideas

[LeBowen]

+1. I’m a proponent of seeing what we’ve got and integrating. I’m fascinated to see immediate next steps with CP3 playing time vs Fox with his hand injury as an interesting factor.

See where the draft picks land and then use all assets to sharpen the blade before next season.

Yeah, we don't really need a SF right away, it's not like we'll win a playoff series this season.
But I disagree on C situation.
We're just not a functional team without a legit backup big. Everything just stops working as soon as Wemby sits.
We need to someone to enable the team to function, chemistry and players can't develop if nothing works in non-Wemby minutes.
Another thing is that Jeremy gets the short end of the stick again after PG experiment. Nothing good can come from him spending the rest of the season as a backup big.
Get someone cheap and see how things work with the rest of the rotation.

It's obvious that we need to consolidate a couple of players into an upgrade. Give everyone a fair chance in these remaining games, but the jury is still out on everyone except Wemby, Castle and Fox.
Hopefully CP3 stays another year, if he doesn't then just get another veteran backup PG.

Next season should look something like:
Fox/CP3
Castle/?
?/Champ
Barnes/Jeremy
Wemby/?

It's up to Devin to prove he's good enough to fill one of those needs, I don't think Keldon can hope to do the same, he's just not good enough.
Would be nice to upgrade Barnes, but he's solid enough and not a priority.

We go back to my ideal scenario of getting a 6'9-6'11 elite shooter to pair with Wemby.
Wait for the summer and see if Markkanen or MPJ are available. Cam Johnson will be gone.
Get a legit backup big and draft the best SF available.

[mo7888]

If we're real-talking, I'm still worried this trade starts the slipstream of the team dumping its first trying to chase a le that isn't ready to be chased. However, I had a list of like 3-5 players I thought would make sense for a win-now move. Durant was on that list. You trade for Durant trying to win a le over the next couple of years. That's worth rotation players. It wouldn't be worth the Spurs adding a bunch of unprotected picks though.

I'm kind of here as well. Unless it's consolidating a few player for a player like KD then I'd prefer to stand pat the rest of this season and reevaluate this summer. A small move with a couple 2nd's would be fine or looking for a backup big in the buyout pool is fine, but I'd keep my 1st's until the summer at the very least.

[Spursfanfromafar]

For the short-medium term, one guy I think the Spurs can target as a back-up big would be Kevon Looney. Good offensive rebounder, good all-round defender and ideal as a back-up. Can we get him for Malaki Branham plus Jordan McLoughlin and two seconds? Or maybe sneak into a trade between the Warriors and Heat if that happens?

[mo7888]

For the short-medium term, one guy I think the Spurs can target as a back-up big would be Kevon Looney. Good offensive rebounder, good all-round defender and ideal as a back-up. Can we get him for Malaki Branham plus Jordan McLoughlin and two seconds? Or maybe sneak into a trade between the Warriors and Heat if that happens?

That's the kind of low key trade I'd be happy with.

[cutewizard]

[cutewizard]

Do you like Jake LaRavia guys??

[mo7888]

Do you like Jake LaRavia guys??

He'd be a nice depth piece if the contract is reasonable.

[Dejounte]

If keldon survives this trade deadline, then i think he’s going to be a lifelong spur tbh

[Dejounte]

scott ‘s metric where it shows whenever keldon scores more than 20 we have a high win rate is a huge indicator tbh. All we need from him is consistency and he might be play a big role in our success

[Bruno]

A little summary of Spurs draft picks chest:

first/second round picks per year:
2025: 2/1
2026: 1/4 (including a second round pick that will be really bad: worst of Thunder/Mavs/Sixers)
2027: 1/1
2028: 1/3
2029: 1/3
2030: 1/2
2031: 1/2

Quality wise, there are some great picks in it with first round picks swaps.
Quan y wise, it's fine but it isn't at the point where Spurs will be submerged by picks.

Spurs have turned quan y into quality with the Fox trade. They have traded 3 firsts and 4 seconds (or 2 firsts and 6 seconds if the Bulls pick had never conveyed) for one player. Their picks' stash is now way easier to manage. Risks of wasting second round picks are lower than before.

[RC_Drunkford]

I was about to look this up. This means we still have plenty of 2nd rounders to move around for role player upgrades

[LeBowen]

I don't think we'll draft two rookies this year.
Either we trade up with two picks, trade one away for a proven player or just kick it down the road like we did in the last draft.

[Big Empty]

Patiently wait to see if the Greek Freak wants to sign with SA this summer

[DPG21920]

I posted this on X but wanted to post here too. I really do wonder what, if anything we see from ATL here this deadline:

I wonder what ATL is going to do. They lost Jalen for season, they are floundering as a fringe PO team even in the weak East despite Trae playing his best, Jalen breaking out, Hunter breaking out, Dyson breaking out…..

Will they be buyers and try to keep eeking into playoffs? Are they going to give up what little draft picks they do have to make that push knowing Trae is due a massive extension too and they wont be able to improve team much with no picks and lots of salary on the books?

Or will they be a surprise seller and try to get their picks back from SA or at least get other picks to stock up with?

Very interesting situation there for obvious reasons.

[spurraider21]

Patiently wait to see if the Greek Freak wants to sign with SA this summer

Giannis is under contract through at least the 26-27 season and then has a player option the year after that

[LeBowen]

[Fischer] The Suns are listening to offers on Kevin Durant and Durant is aware of this. Golden State has been the most active in the pursuit of Durant with Phoenix holding interest in Kuminga. Golden State’s ideal plan? Bringing both LeBron and Durant to the Bay Area to play alongside Curry.

Cmon Brian, you're on a roll.

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

I think Atlanta will be a seller when it comes to fringe players they could get value for - Capela, Bogdanovic, Nance. Won’t get much for them but they don’t seem to be a part of their future anyway and would likely not make them significantly worse this season either.

Can’t see them spending draft equity or shuffling their core players.

[spurraider21]

I posted this on X but wanted to post here too. I really do wonder what, if anything we see from ATL here this deadline:

I wonder what ATL is going to do. They lost Jalen for season, they are floundering as a fringe PO team even in the weak East despite Trae playing his best, Jalen breaking out, Hunter breaking out, Dyson breaking out…..

Will they be buyers and try to keep eeking into playoffs? Are they going to give up what little draft picks they do have to make that push knowing Trae is due a massive extension too and they wont be able to improve team much with no picks and lots of salary on the books?

Or will they be a surprise seller and try to get their picks back from SA or at least get other picks to stock up with?

Very interesting situation there for obvious reasons.

they dont really have anything i'd give their picks for. the piece to do that for was hypothetically Young but we just landed Fox. they're not going to move Jalen Johnson. would you give them their 2027 for Risacher? would they even want to do that?

[Kevin]

Cmon Brian, you're on a roll.

KD is two years too old. Tempting but still a pass given his price.

[LeBowen]

KD is two years too old. Tempting but still a pass given his price.

It depends on the price.
KD will keep hooping until they carry him off the floor in a body bag.
I'd say 3 more seasons after this one.

[mo7888]

I posted this on X but wanted to post here too. I really do wonder what, if anything we see from ATL here this deadline:

I wonder what ATL is going to do. They lost Jalen for season, they are floundering as a fringe PO team even in the weak East despite Trae playing his best, Jalen breaking out, Hunter breaking out, Dyson breaking out…..

Will they be buyers and try to keep eeking into playoffs? Are they going to give up what little draft picks they do have to make that push knowing Trae is due a massive extension too and they wont be able to improve team much with no picks and lots of salary on the books?

Or will they be a surprise seller and try to get their picks back from SA or at least get other picks to stock up with?

Very interesting situation there for obvious reasons.

What could they possibly offer that would get their picks back? I can't see anything they have worth those picks unless they can orchestrate a massive 3 team deal with an alpha coming here and i don't see any alphas on the market.

[Kevin]

It depends on the price.
KD will keep hooping until they carry him off the floor in a body bag.
I'd say 3 more seasons after this one.

Matching salaries needed would have to be Dev+ one of KJ or Barnes or KJ Barnes and Sochan. Hard doing a KD deal without nuking this years roster. A deal requires about 40M in outbound salary.

[DPG21920]

they dont really have anything i'd give their picks for. the piece to do that for was hypothetically Young but we just landed Fox. they're not going to move Jalen Johnson. would you give them their 2027 for Risacher? would they even want to do that?

No but it may be a situation that if they were to make Trae and Hunter available they could get other very good picks that then go to us in return for their picks +

So for SA giving ATL back control of their future, SA instead of getting 2 unprotected first + a swap gets say 4 unprotected firsts, 2 of which are equal-ish quality?

So ATL gets their 2 picks back + their swap and SA gets 4 firsts back for allowing that to happen while Trae + Hunter go to other teams?

[scott]

Apparently a lot of teams are interested in him, idk what would be the asking price, Nets obviously can't ask for a FRP.
Branham or Wesley and SRPs makes sense.
Theis is washed and not worth it.

No point for trading for a wing now and overpaying, that should be this summer's priority, depending on how the draft goes.
But we absolutely must get a backup big if we're to win 35+ games.

New avatar is fresh, amigo. Cant' wait to join you in the shedding of past avi's

[DPG21920]

I think Atlanta will be a seller when it comes to fringe players they could get value for - Capela, Bogdanovic, Nance. Won’t get much for them but they don’t seem to be a part of their future anyway and would likely not make them significantly worse this season either.

Can’t see them spending draft equity or shuffling their core players.

So they just stay on the treadmill as a fringe team despite Trae playing his best ball ever and getting breakouts from all the guys they hoped as they get more expensive and cant really improve their team once Trae signs yet another max extension?