What is Graham’s Trade Value?

He would be there for salary. I don't think he's a negative value asset but the biggest thing for him in a trade is salary.

Graham/Kira for KCP

Graham for Alec Burks


Offer Coby White 3/$50M or 4/$60M and do a S&T with the Bulls sending them Kira, and rerouting Graham somewhere else to dump (OKC is always a destination for that).
They can't afford to keep White this offseason since they are going to max out Lavine and they need to do somethign with Vucevic.

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I would be fine holding onto him to stay in a bench scoring role, but ideally would look to upgrade for someone with more size.

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Agree with this. If we could flip him for someone like KCP and only have to attach minimal assets then I would be down with it. Otherwise him spelling BI for 12-16 minutes a game is a great role for him. Playing against bench players and being a spacing outlet is a role this team needs. If we could get that same role with increased defense that would be ideal.

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KCP and keep the first round pick would be sweet.

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For sure. Upgrading DG to KCP isn't worth a 1st imo. But a second and maybe some cash? IDK, probably not enough but I think we could use that first better with having young talent cheap or a bigger upgrade. Edit: I saw Teddy's Kira/DG for KCP and I like that a lot.

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Offer Coby White 3/$50M or 4/$60M

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If you can get Coby white for that price I'd be down. I do think it is funny that the bulls could lose a 21 yo White who's giving them similar performance to Lonzo because they gave a 24 yo Lonzo so much last year.

I don't know if someone is going to give White $20M/yr, but if he's in that $15-18M a year range, then i think we should absolutely try to make that happen, but it won't be easy salary wise for us, so it's definitely a long shot.
I don't think Chicago would want Graham back, as they are trying to shed salary, so we'd have to find a place to basically dump him b/c we can't take back salary if we send him to a 3rd team, and chicago won't want to either.
And i don't even know if you can do that in a S&T.

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similar performance to Lonzo because they gave a 24 yo Lonzo so much last year.

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35 games of 15 & 5

It may work out as being ok, but giving up the first for Graham, and getting nothing back for Lonzo will always be viewed as horrible in my eyes.
The fact that we performed well below the expectations of this year record wise to not give up the 1st to Charlotte doesn't make that trade acceptable now.

Kevin Huerter

Say what you will about Lonzo's health, which is a fair knock at this point, but White and Lonzo aren't even in the same tier of player, and the distance isnt really that close at this point.

There's a reason that Ayo Dosunmu, not Coby White, has started in Lonzo's absence.

Lonzo and Herb were the two best perimeter defenders in the league according to BBall Index's advanced tracking metrics, and it shows with the Bulls and his absence. White is still a negative defender and has been incredibly slow at developing the sort of passing vision people envisioned for him.

Im not knocking White, he's 21 and has plenty of room to still grow, and has, and I would 100% trade Graham and a couple seconds for White if the Bulls would do it. But I would not be paying him above 10-12 mil a year.