NBA Trade Deadline Thread 2021

[elindholm]

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Whoa, that's quite a name!

 

[Ronin]

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[elindholm]

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Pretty funny how the Magic beat the Suns and then immediately trade away their entire team.

 

[TJ]

Vuc is 30. DA is 22. Vuc may be better than DA at the moment, but current DA is the more efficient defender and higher potential. I frankly wouldn't swap b/c I'm confident DA will be the better player soon.

Even though the Bulls had to only give up Carter Jr., losing picks for a team that's in rebuild mode is kind of dumb, IMO. If you're gonna tank, go all-in like the Suns and Sixers did. Not this half-assed crap with bringing in 30 y/o guys to build around.

 

[Hoop Head]

Pretty funny how the Magic beat the Suns and then immediately trade away their entire team.

The Magic were all playing for jobs, elsewhere.

 

[AzStevenCal]

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Does that mean something?

 

[Ronin]

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[GatorAZ]

Vuc is 30. DA is 22. Vuc may be better than DA at the moment, but current DA is the more efficient defender and higher potential. I frankly wouldn't swap b/c I'm confident DA will be the better player soon.

Even though the Bulls had to only give up Carter Jr., losing picks for a team that's in rebuild mode is kind of dumb, IMO. If you're gonna tank, go all-in like the Suns and Sixers did. Not this half-assed crap with bringing in 30 y/o guys to build around.

They have just enough talent not to be bad enough to bottom out. If it doesn’t work and they jump in the lottery the picks have protection.

 

[taz02]

Does that mean something?

Maybe a reference to our competition improving

 

[AzStevenCal]

Vuc is 30. DA is 22. Vuc may be better than DA at the moment, but current DA is the more efficient defender and higher potential. I frankly wouldn't swap b/c I'm confident DA will be the better player soon.

Even though the Bulls had to only give up Carter Jr., losing picks for a team that's in rebuild mode is kind of dumb, IMO. If you're gonna tank, go all-in like the Suns and Sixers did. Not this half-assed crap with bringing in 30 y/o guys to build around.

I'm not quite confident, more like cautiously optimistic when it comes to Ayton passing Vucevic by. As for swapping the two, the closer we are to a game like Miami (where Ayton was great) the less willing I'd be to make that deal. But the reverse is true too. And, if Paul wasn't near the end of his career and if the (arguably) 3 best teams in the NBA weren't at high risk for injury problems, I wouldn't even contemplate an Ayton trade during a bad stretch of DA performances.

 

[Mainstreet]

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OKC has a monopoly on draft picks. There should be anti-draft pick legislation.

 

[95pro]

How the hell is LA in on Lowry? They got nothing to trade.

OKC has a monopoly on draft picks. There should be anti-draft pick legislation.

OKC can start an expansion team.

 

[TJ]

OKC can start an expansion team.

Seattle

 

[SirStefan32]

One of these years, the entire draft is going to be just OKC.

 

[Mainstreet]

OKC can start an expansion team.

Or a market on draft picks. They can quadruple the return on the going rate.

 

[TJ]

Does that mean something?

Probably just a reaction to all of the moves.

 

[AzStevenCal]

OKC has a monopoly on draft picks. There should be anti-draft pick legislation.

As you accumulate bunches of them they tend to lose value and you can only handle so many young players at one time so I'm sure they'll be packaging them for players and draft move-ups before long.

 

[Mainstreet]

As you accumulate bunches of them they tend to lose value and you can only handle so many young players at one time so I'm sure they'll be packaging them for players and draft move-ups before long.

They will be like the corner bank. It's where teams will go for draft picks and they will multiply their assets.

 

[GatorAZ]

Similar to what he would’ve been here, Gordon is the Nuggets 4th best player. They got better and Portland improved their depth.

 

[TJ]

I really hope that James Jones has all buyout candidates on speed dial.

Also, would've helped had Stix developed quicker, especially when Saric plays like poo

 

[Mainstreet]

Unless something changes I guess a buyout is the most we can hope for to add front court depth.

 

[ArizonaSportsFan]

Does that mean something?

He is expressing the sentiment we felt while watching him play last night.

 

[Mainstreet]

I really hope that James Jones has all buyout candidates on speed dial.

Also, would've helped had Stix developed quicker, especially when Saric plays like poo

If the Suns first round pick would have been more ready to play like Cam Johnson, it would have helped this season.

 

[95pro]

I really hope that James Jones has all buyout candidates on speed dial.

Also, would've helped had Stix developed quicker, especially when Saric plays like poo

Jalen really lost the chance early on when he contracted covid.

Seemed like they were intent on giving him minutes the few games before he went out with the sickness. Then we rolled on to some wins with other lineups and he found himself on the outside looking in.

 

[Chaplin]

Unless something changes I guess a buyout is the most we can hope for to add front court depth.

That was 99% the case regardless.

 

[ArizonaSportsFan]

If the Suns first round pick would have been more ready to play like Cam Johnson, it would have helped this season.

Or, learn to draft the BPA. Replace Payne with Haliburton and we are in a much better position now and in the future.