re: Offseason player trade rumors thread

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Right. Love’s contract is beyond putrid. Like totally awful. But he can still play, may be a slightly better fit, and that contract might be a key to matching salary for a star and a ton of picks attached.

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Can he still play? He appears to be broken down. He has not played a lot the last 3 years and never has played defense.

Sexton is a nice player. But I don't want to give him the max and I don't want him here as about to be a RFA (what we are going through with Ball). I have every confidence that NAW would put up the same numbers, if he was given the same opportunities that Sexton got..

That was not the trade ESPN had yesterday. We were giving up Adams, Bled, and Ingram. It was a three way with the pacers and Cleveland. We got to dump Adams and Bledso obviously.
We got back Turner, Sexton, Nance, and Love there was another Pacer player also but I forgot. So yes we gave up Ingram also.

I my bad came in at page 15 today. A shame we would have to give up picks to get off Bled and Adams. I really thought Bled would be better and Adams started the year pretty good. Sucks..

Yes - let’s give up picks to dump players we gave up picks to get.
Griffin should take a salary cut to zero for the next decade for those idiotic moves.

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I don't understand moving Beldsoe or Adams this year, unless it facilitates a bigger move.

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A lot of that sentiment is because SVG wouldn't bench Bledsoe. I think Adams could be really good in a bench role. I think the Pels have enough guards that Bledsoe seems in the way even off the bench. You don't want him taking minutes from Kira and Didi.

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I mean Cleve reportedly wanted 2 firsts for nance just last year

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And that’s why he’s still in Cleveland. Same reason Turner is still indiana.

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I mean Cleve reportedly wanted 2 firsts for nance just last year (he’s likely worth 1) and Sexton is basically the younger point guard version of Ingram, that has a better pull up 3 and floater game, so I’m not really understanding why people think he’s attainable for 1-2 firsts, when the same people think Ingram is worth 4-5 firsts and swaps.

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Sexton has a reputation for not getting along with teammates because he is a ball hog and he will likely demand a max deal after next year. His worth is not high. I thought they were asking for a 1st for Nance last year and did not get it. He is not worth 2 1sts.

To you and Teddy.

I said Cleve wanted 2 and in the same breath I said Nance is prob worth one, especially now since a gear has passed. Thing is, it takes 2 to tango. Presti and Griff have created a market that you have to overpay to get quality players. Adams and Bledsoe are BY FAR the worst players in that trade, so picks and Kira would be how we can maybe make this an equitable trade.

Also, I’m not worried about Sexton’s rep in Cleve. They are the definition of a poverty franchise.

Flip on the tape of Sexton’s 1 v 5 game in college or the games he went toe to toe and absolutely punked KD, Kyrie, Harden and Brooklyn. Hell even flip on the tape of a game he played against us in March of 2020, where he singlehandily prevented us from blowing the Cavs out by 50. Guy has a lot of fight and dog in him as well as skill. Cleveland doesn’t know what it takes to win. Them personally undervaluing a player should make you value a player more.

Sexton is the only player truly worth a frick on their entire team. He’s right to ballhog the basketball. Put Sexton on this team with Zion, Ingram, ZO, Hayes, Nance, Love, Nickeil and no Adams and Bledsoe to royally frick things up and that’s a squad that can catch fire and go deep in the postseason for years to come. That’s worth more than 1-2 firsts.

I personally don’t love Love, but including him or someone like Porzingis in this type of trade helps us not to have to attach 3-4 additional firsts just to get rid of Adams and Bledsoe. Because that is what it will take if we trade them for a player that is a good player on a good contract. If you don’t want to drain your draft capital to get off of these contracts, you have to assume some risk on your end. Neither player has any use to any team in the nba other than Adams being able to set some screens and bang in the post against big centers for about 15 games a year.

I just think we as fans need to be more realistic trade value wise. Overvaluing our players and undervaluing all 29 other teams players is not a productive exercise in finding trades that are actually fair and beneficial to all parties involved.

Wonder if they are trying to get Gordon Hayward or Rozier out of them to take some of the creating pressure off of Luka.

Charlotte could use a big with some actual size and upside. All they have that’s worth a flip is PJ and he’s like 6ft 8.

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