re: NBA Offseason officially kicks off, Ingram’s days in NOLA coming to an end per Stein

At this stage in his career CP3 shouldn’t play more than 15-20 mpg, so they definitely still need more ball handlers. With Wemby being under rookie contract for the next 3 years now is the time you take advantage of surrounding him with high priced vets that can raise your ceiling.

If we can send BI to Spurs and get back those Hawks picks, I would call up Atlanta immediately and offer their 2025 1st and 2026 swap back to them with Collins for Okongwu and the Lakers pick back.

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It would be interesting to see if you can get Utah and/or Atlanta involved into this with San Antonio. Somehow get Barnes and kessler/capela here.

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Barnes + WCJ + Kessler would be the most ideal.

Even WCJ + Kessler would be sick at this point. I still think we end up with 1 of those 2.

"Available" Centers:

Kessler
WCJ
Isaiah Stewart
Mark Williams
Jack Landale
Paul Reed
Looney

Not set in stone:

Capella
Ayton
Vucevic (Not.fricking.happening.)
Allen (not likely but slight chance)

I completely forgot about Utah, they can use their cap space to help facilitate a deal and get assets for it especially if they trade Lauri to GS. Something like this:

Pels: Barnes, Kessler, Okongwu, Lakers 25 1st, Hawks 27 1st

Hawks: 25 Hawks 1st, 26 Hawks swap (they can now trade Trae and go for a tank)

Spurs: Ingram

Warriors: Lauri

Jazz: Kuminga, Moody, Looney, Collins, 25 Pels 1st, Second worst of the 3 Pels 27 1sts, whatever picks they want from Warriors

That opens up space for us to use both the MLE and BAE to get a backup PG and SF

BAE for TyTy or would someone else pay more?

In a matter of speaking, I think they are.

The number of wings available via trade or free agency is petering out. BI is the biggest name still out there. (Lavine is small name big ego bigger contract at this point)

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Why Barnes over Keldon Johnson?

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I actually like Sochan out of the 3. I just wasn't considering Keldon Johnson honestly. But agreed him or Sochan would be better than Barnes if that trade were to happen.

You have to get Sochan and Collins back. That's the starting point. I'm not really interested in Keldon Johnson.

Unless I am missing something, I’m not sure why we are mentioning Barnes. He can’t be aggregated in a trade.

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The number of wings available via trade or free agency is petering out.

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Not including BI, we only have 4 of them on our roster right now, and 2 of them literally can't play defense. We really only have 3 guys who can play defense on the perimeter.
This is a big problem, much like not having a starting or backup center.

Griff has a shite ton of work to do before the season starts to complete the roster, and I don't know what his expectations are for starting center. He's pretty much pigeon holed himself into a starting center that's on a rookie contract.

I think people would really like the type of player Sochan is. He's replace the Naji role. He's a pest. He does a lot of things well. Not a shooter, though, so Pels Talk will reject him.