re: Pelicans are in play for Dejounte Murray according to Chris Haynes.

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nbastream Trade talks between the Hawks and Pelicans on Dejounte Murray could escalate today into an agreement.

New Orleans is also trying to acquire Clint Capela or Onyeka Okongwu in the same deal with Murray.

(via@wojespn)

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This was just posted a few minutes ago from an IG that posts NBA news.

Karlo is coming...

Woj bomb incoming? Based on the players salaries discussed, who would have to go out? It’s fun to speculate. Herb Jones better not come out of anyone’s mouth.

What does Murray give us that we don’t already have? I’m trying to figure out where he’d fit in.

Val and Naji will most likely be gone today if we are serious about any of the potential moves. The real elephant in the room is Dyson/ Jose. Will we have the minutes for both and Hawkins? Especially if we add Murray? Can we pay Jose/ Dyson/ Hawk?

I really hope we don’t get Murray. He really isn’t even that special . Hawks have been worse since attaining him , he has a lot of empty stats , and his inconsistent . He would create an even bigger headache with the current jam for minutes at the guard spot , and he doesn’t cover any needs … and we will probably have to give up a young prospect for him , Dyson / hawk … not worth it

We aren’t trading BI you morons.
And we aren’t trading CJ, who’s having a career year and has been killing it from 3.

We aren’t interested in way overpaid Capella and the only way we make a trade for Capella/Murray is with someone like CJ or BI going out, b/c there’s no way we are trading 2 out of JV/Larry/Herb to make that work.
There is no scenario we make a trade for Murray/Capella.


It’s JV/Dyson for Murray/Okongwu and I don’t even know what the point of that trade really is.
You gonna bring Murray off the bench? He’ll love that.
Did you see how much we were abused by Zubac without JV last night? Larry/Okongwu can’t handle guys like Jokic, Zubac, Gobert, and Nurkic.


This is all Hawks leaks trying to increase the trade value for Murray that they are trying to trade to some other team.
We are a team with lots of assets so we are going to be used in leaks to try to entice other teams to make a better offer.

We’d probably pick up another, bigger center to deal with the guys you mentioned but I do think Okongwu allows us to play the way defensively that Willie wants to play. Ofc it depends on the price to acquire him if it’s worth it or not.

I'm not interested in Murray to be honest. He simply doesn't fit with our current starters of CJ/BI/Herb/Zion, and those 4 aren't going anywhere anytime soon. It seems dumb to play him off the bench.

I would love to get Okongwu.
If there's a way to send JV out, which would make me upset, as well as my wife, and get back Okongwu as well as another big body center, then i'm all for that.
I also think Okongwu can be the ideal 5 for us, even though he is undersized. I also think he is goign to improve his shooting.

So if we did a JV/EJ for Okongwu/Drummond, i'd be satisfied.
That keeps us $2.6M under the tax with 13 players, and then we can sign Ryan and Karlo. We'd need to get back some 2nds from ATL to send to the Bulls.

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He really isn’t even that special . Hawks have been worse since attaining him , he has a lot of empty stats , and his inconsistent .

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