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Score-first mentality, volume shooter. McBuckets replacement after we trade his expiring contract next season for 2 FRP’s unprotected
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Score-first mentality, volume shooter. McBuckets replacement after we trade his expiring contract next season for 2 FRP’s unprotected
Last edited by John B; 02-16-2023 at 10:07 PM.
Volume shooter with poor defense. Sounds like a perfect player to lead us into the home stretch.
We just released Stanley Johnson.
Or 10 SRPs.Score-first mentality, volume shooter. McBuckets replacement after we trade his expiring contract next season for 2 FRP’s unprotected
Next trade deadline: Ben Simmons + 2 unrestricted firsts for McDermott + Graham + filler. Calling it now.Score-first mentality, volume shooter. McBuckets replacement after we trade his expiring contract next season for 2 FRP’s unprotected
Offense >>> defense helps the tank
if something like this happens, makes more sense if it happens this summer insted than in winter...
I think you’re on to something.
I do that deal in a years time.
Another project they’ll hope to flip into a SRP in the future.
I agree...and I'd do that for 2 unprotected 1sts..
Stanley was trying to play defense. That's big tanking no-no and so he deserved to be cut.
I don’t see Brooklyn giving up major assets to unload Simmons at this point. They’re already in rebuilding mode, basically overnight. If the owner doesn’t care about debt, then he will perhaps stubbornly hold onto him, or perhaps wisely just to maintain their few draft picks they have left.
Could be both, they have 5 unprotected picks after the Durant & Irving trades, so if they want to make a splash in free agency in '24, dumping Simmons would be the way to go. I hate Simmons, but I'm all for this.
They owe pretty much every pick of their own for a few years (to Houston, thanks to the beard), so they can't pull a cold reset. Also the put together a decent supporting cast, and NY is a prime FA destination, so if they remain respectable throughout next season (no internal conflicts and within the play in at least) I think there's a very good chance they'll try to lure one or two free agents and use some of those picks in a trade. Dumping Simmons would be the first step in that direction. The class of '23 is trash, but the class of '24 has some interesting FAs, like Siakam, Sabonis, Jaylen Brown, Dejounte, Kuzma, etc.
Last edited by Ariel; 02-17-2023 at 02:37 PM.
Not sure (feel free to correct) but I believe as we're speaking after the Durant trade, BKN have potentially 2 FRPs this year, then 0 next year, then 2 in 2025 then 0 in 2026... So yeah, not sure they'd be willing to give 2 FRPs this summer or next winter to get rid of Simmons as they're rebuilding.
There's also a lot of swaps in their picks, making them even more fragile.
Their interesting unrestricted picks are in '28 or '29, which is long enough for Phoenix & Dallas to implode. If they want to dump 2 years of Simmons at 40M each for a couple 1sts in the 20s they can enjoy his drama for the remainder of his contract.
Here's BKN future draft picks:
https://basketball.realgm.com/nba/dr...re_drafts/team
(I first got just a bunch of rats pics for my "Brooklyn nets draft capital" search, then I check it again and read "Brooklyn nets rat capital"...
No need to make it more complicated than this: they got 4 unprotected firsts ('23, '25, '27 & '29) and an unprotected swap ('28) from Phoenix for Durant, and 1 unprotected pick in '29 from Dallas for Kyrie. It's the farthest of those picks that hold the most value. They can't trade picks of their own until '28 or '29 because they owe picks until '27 for Harden.
I suppose if they had some very expensive superstars coming onto the team, somehow, then they would need to get rid of Simmons salary, but just my opinion, I wonder how much the GM Sean Marks wants to dive back into those chaotic waters right away, and perhaps just wanna start slowly like he was doing before they went all in on Kyrie and Durant. I don’t see them in “win now mode”, so not sure why they feel a need to get rid of Simmons at a loss, when they’re already losing and may be tanking soon enough.
Here's BKN future draft picks:
https://basketball.realgm.com/nba/dr...re_drafts/team
(I first got just a bunch of rats pics for my "Brooklyn nets draft capital" search, then I check it again and read "Brooklyn nets rat capital"...
Lol! I wonder if the Nets might keep Simmons, for a while, another season, with not much playing time for him, then offer him a buyout, at a steep discount. In a situation like that, and since he doesn’t seem thrilled at playing basketball anyway, he might take it. Who knows.
Do you think Atlanta might do a Brooklyn if they stay mediocre?
Brooklyn owns a lot of other picks than their own. ATL doesn’t, and the landscape of teams that could pay current ridiculous market prices for Trae is barren.
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