I won’t complain if the Celtics trade for LMA but I’ll be really surprised if they do. I think LMA could be rejuvenated once he gets traded and help a team out, but if the spurs had a big trade exception like the Celtics do I’d be pissed if we used it on LMA lol
Still amazing how fast the Rockets disentegrated.
Not that I'm surprised. The writing was on the wall as soon as they paired Westbrook with Harden (and took on that albatross of a contract)...but most still expected them to at least contend this season.
Good riddance tbh
But wouldn't you be pissed even more if we had that TE and didn't use it all all? I'm not sure they have any better options out there.
They could probably wait until the off-season but yeah I’d be upset if I was a C’s fan and they didn’t use it but on LMA tho? That’s a hard pill to swallow lol
I would take Robert Williams & a lottery or top - 15 protected first - round pick ('21 or '22). I would say Romeo Langford or Grant Williams, but Langford has played very little & Grant Williams isn't that exciting as a prospect.
Plus, the Spurs are just as guard/swingman heavy as Boston so Langford would see little time here. Williams (Grant) does provide more of a need at combo forward but would be in a log jam himself behind Gay, Lyles & Samanic.
Phiilys going to punk them in the playoffs if they don’t come up with a post defender, somehow. LMA checks several boxes for them.
I think a lot of it was their getting rid of D'Antoni. I don't think he's a good coach, but he is the ultimate star players coach in that his system ups their stats and they don't have to play defense. Good times for the stars. Obviously Harden had no issue with Mike as they are reunited on the Nets.
D’Antoni isn’t running things in Brooklyn, Nash is.
Houston’s problem is that they expended a ton of first rounders on three big splash transactions, getting CP3, offloading him to get Westbrook, then offloading him to get Wall, and they’re worse than before the started that goat rope, and don’t have a short term future to improve. They will suck for half a decade, minimum.
and that’s exactly why you take the back up big. We actually need one
Obviously, Nash is the headcoach. But Mike is still on the staff and an important part of the offensive scheming, so if Harden didn't like him it would be a problem.
I think they like Theis, but he'd be redundant with Aldridge in the fold.
I've been suggesting Langford, Ojeleye, and a 2021 first for Aldridge. If The Heat are really interested, the Spurs could leverage that to get Boston to offer a first as opposed to a second(s).
Am I crazy for thinking Danny Ainge might actually be sitting on the trade exception as a sign and trade piece in the summer? Could use it to line up a 4 year, close to max deal for Demar and the fit would be about as good as you can find for derozan.
Kemba/Derozan/Brown/Tatum/Theis - 4 shooters around Demar and a ton of playmaking. Interesting configurations with derozan as the de facto point with Marcus smart next to him for more defense.
Maybe we milk Danny this summer and get some nice pieces.
if we sign and trade DDR we should be able to get something better than what Boston has to offer. Signing and trading DDR also compromises our cap space as his cap hold is massive and he will likely land 25-30mm in that scenario:
They're not going to do that. Theis is their starting C (although they platoon the position with Theis, Williams and Thompson). I could see us getting Thompson and a late pick (or some sort of swap deal).
Kawhi? that’s a low bar. LMA should be treated like any other player who did not truly add value. If this was Patty i’d be happy to work it out. For LMA we don’t need to be so accomodating IMO. He has no trade clause, he barely did anything for the franchise and has virtually no value in a trade to begin with. Shake his hand, give him an obligatory thank you LMA tribute that no one actually believes in and extract value. All this goodwill looks good on paper but has increasingly diminishing returns.
Imagine going from thinking you were going to use your big trade exception to land Anthony Davis to getting a completely washed up Aldridge.
I'm surprised they lasted through last season.
He does have a 15% trade kicker though, which I'm not sure if it gives him leverage.
Where to?
they gave up draft picks to downgrade from paul to westbrook
astonishing miscalculation
Pipedream but I wish we could pull Marcus Smart from their team and maybe Aaron Nesmith by swapping Lonnie if we have to.
Marginal leverage as it may cost us more to move him to somewhere he does not want to go. If the right deal is in place and we have to pay his kicker we should. With that being said I suspect there is nothing of value on the table so unless PATFO (which has a of an ability to scout, target and develop players) sees a young flier in the deal it may be worth it.
Last edited by KingKev; 03-14-2021 at 01:24 PM.
I'm on the side that the only way we get Value from LMA is in a packaged deal with one or two of our other players.
I would hate to lose one of our younger players but for the right deal we might should take it but hopefully instead we can get away with losing some vets like Mills, and Gay as that would sting allot less.
So that Heat deal, that would be three players plus one min. contract player coming in? So the Spurs would have to cut current players on the roster to make room? I wonder who would be cut.
(I’m assuming we’re at the max)
The spurs have one free roster spot, imo they would not take 3 or 4 players except if they really like someone.
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