The Athletic reports Oladipo is looking to leave this offseason

Pretty sure his goal seems to be a big market. So you are likely risking a one and gone situation bringing him to NOLA.


But could be part of a multi-team trade I guess.

EDIT: I see you edited it to include the rumor about Boston. Yeah, that could make sense if you think you are just losing Oladipo no matter what. Which they likely are.

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wonder what a 3 team trade could look like with Jrue and Hayward going to Indy and Oladipo going to Boston.

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I’m not sure it could work. Don’t know if there’s enough assets around. I don’t want Myles Turner, so besides him, I don’t see it

A 3 team trade with Celtics, Pacers, Pels could have a few outcomes.

What if we could get the Holiday brothers and Marcus Smart while keeping Jrue? Just for thought.

Other than that Jrue would have to go to the Pacers, maybe Myles Turner and Marcus Smart?

Why not Lonzo instead of Jrue?

Lonzo and Hayes Package for

Oladipo and Turner

Oladipo
Holiday
Ingram
Zion
Turner

Pels get a PG that can actually finish at the rim and distribute in half court offense, also don't lose any defense out of the guard position. (If he gets back to player he was prior to quad injury, its a major upgrade)

Pels also get a center that can atleast open up the paint and bang some 3s, even though he isn't the best rebounder or defender.

He’s not without his flaws, but I think a couple of things are true:

He is not in an ideal situation playing next to Sabonis, on a team like ours I would expect him to look better and to scheme his strengths into our offense a bit better, and unless Zion develops a reliable jump shot, and ideally even if he does, we really should want a starting caliber rim protecting big that can stretch the floor(one that ideally is also a good defensive rebounder which unfortunately Turner does not excel at). He only just turned 24 and so is likely to still develop some. And there aren’t a whole lot of players in that mold out there, that make financial sense, and potentially available.

Personally, I think we made a pretty big mistake de-prioritizing and incentivizing Christian Wood to want out after what he showed and subsequently re-iterated last season. Guy shouldn’t command a huge salary relative to what he can provide and has only been improving at 24 and checks off most of the boxes and has been steadily improving defensively.

I know this board is big on Vic, but he has not looked even remotely the same since returning from such a devastating injury. I get it -- it takes time to fully come back from an injury, but he doesn't even seem 50% close to the athlete he was prior to the injury. I am afraid he has fallen into the mode of Gordon Hayward and he won't be worth anywhere near the money he will probably command.

Yeah, who is stupid enough to want a 7' great rim protector that shoots 3's at a 36% rate next to Zion?

Yeah Brogdon just makes no sense to give up from the Indy side. Frankly given his fit and everything else, I imagine you would need to overpay to get him, similar to how we felt about Jrue a couple seasons ago. He’s a guy that just brings additional value to their team that they aren’t going to easily part with.

It could/would be a problem unless he shows improvement that he hasn’t shown so far in his career.

I do think Zion will improve notably in that area but it would be pretty critical that all three other players can board at an above average rate.

But pretty much any option available to us forces trade offs.