2023 TRADE DEADLINE MEGATHREAD

[Noble]

This might be the best time to buy low on Simmons...for someone. I ****ing can't stand him, but if a team truely believed they could resurrect his career, this might be the best time to do it.

I did a Holmes/Mitchell/TD for Simmons/Mills trade and it worked.

 

[Tetsujin]

The Houston Rockets are showing some level of interest in Mikal Bridges and Cam Johnson, per @KellyIko pic.twitter.com/nksXeASKa7

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) February 9, 2023

Lol did fouling De’Aaron at the buzzer break the Rockets?

 

[Ozymandias]

Please. CP3 is 37 and hardly a superstar anymore. KD probably has a couple more good years in him but they traded away their best defender and one of their top shooters to get him and he hasn't played in a month. A few weeks ago this Suns team was playing so poorly that they weren't even in the top 10 in the West. People are reacting to this the same way they did to Dwight Howard and Steve Nash joining the Lakers -- like the championship is already there's. Here's what everyone seems to overlook with top-heavy lineups -- unless they're getting more possessions somehow, the total number of shots won't change. All adding KD does is take shots away from other players. Both Mikal Bridges and Cam Johnsons were shooting better from 3pt range than Durant is so far this season which means they may actually get worse in terms of Points Per Possession.

Yikes. I'm actually gonna save this comment, your comparing Steve Nash and Dwight Howard to the Lakers to this seasons KD? Seems a bit like a prisoner of the moment type of take..


Yeah Mikael Bridges and Cam Johnson are better 3pt shooters than Durant this season! FOR SURE! Well said. I believe you! very convincing.

 

[coolhandluke]

This might be the best time to buy low on Simmons...for someone. I ****ing can't stand him, but if a team truely believed they could resurrect his career, this might be the best time to do it.

If the Nets are including multiple FRPs, I'm fine with taking a chance on Simmons.

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

This might be the best time to buy low on Simmons...for someone. I ****ing can't stand him, but if a team truely believed they could resurrect his career, this might be the best time to do it.

Oh god, please no. I don't care if the dude costs a bag of chips. Keep him away from Sacramento. I'd much rather keep that bag of chips and enjoy the crunch as opposed to giving up the bag of chips and enjoying an underwhelming, underachieving, underperforming dude try to play sound basketball...

 

[Noble]

I did a Holmes/Mitchell/TD for Simmons/Mills trade and it worked. If the Nets add a 1St to that, do you take that trade? With all these stars coming into the West, Simmons could be the answer to stopping them. He wouldn't have to score really, just defend and probably would dominate with Sabonis. It would have to be the biggest psy-op, inception style heist movie mission to pull it off though.

 

[Tetsujin]

A lot of people view Cam Johnson as a "young player," but he'll be 27 years old in three weeks.

Johnson is older than Jaylen Brown, Domantas Sabonis and Donovan Mitchell. And he's almost the exact same age as D'Angelo Russell and Kevon Looney. pic.twitter.com/YoWOl0iBGe

— Alex Kennedy (@AlexKennedyNBA) February 9, 2023

 

[iowamcnabb]

3 hours left.

Durant
Hart
Kessler
Jakob
Dedmon
Lakers bull

Avalanche incoming or just a couple more?

 

[Tetsujin]

Brooklyn's blockbuster Kevin trade with Phoenix is not yet official, which could allow Nets to expand this deal. But despite wealth of interest, Brooklyn intends to keep Mikal Bridges beyond the 3 p.m. trade deadline, league sources told @YahooSports.

— Jake Fischer (@JakeLFischer) February 9, 2023

 

[Tetsujin]

The Boston Celtics are acquiring shooting big man Mike Muscala from the Oklahoma City Thunder, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 9, 2023

Shams sparkle bomb!

 

[Tetsujin]

Boston is sending Justin Jackson and two second-round picks to OKC for Mike Muscala, sources said. https://t.co/RvdgZJE8n8

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 9, 2023

JJ moved on the trade deadline yet again!

 

[Tetsujin]

Shams finally getting one in. pic.twitter.com/zUL0Q5J7CK

— nba paint (@nba_paint) February 9, 2023

 

[Tetsujin]

“Keep an eye on Chicago, which continues to take offers for Zach LaVine”

- @HPbasketball pic.twitter.com/JUP9youcTv

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) February 9, 2023

 

[Tetsujin]

You guys think anyone who isn't a star is trash, because you don't know ball.

Muscala is shooting almost 40% from behind the arc this year and has been solid.

Boston doesn't have room for, nor need second-round picks. And Jackson wasn't making it through today anyway. https://t.co/MegJySlemQ

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) February 9, 2023

 

[iowamcnabb]

Jeez, that makes me less confident in a Plumlee acquisition

 

[Hoovtrain]

My gut says kings don’t do anything

 

[The_Jamal]

#Sources — Nets making calls to teams on Ben Simmons. Brooklyn WILLING to attach draft compensation to move on from the former number 1 pick. #NBA

— NBATradeReport (@NBATradeReport) February 9, 2023

Oh?

 

[The_Jamal]

Jeez, that makes me less confident in a Plumlee acquisition

Eh, Muscala isn't crazy far behind Plumlee and he has team control next year for a nothing contract

 

[Capt. Factorial]

I did a Holmes/Mitchell/TD for Simmons/Mills trade and it worked. If the Nets add a 1St to that, do you take that trade? With all these stars coming into the West, Simmons could be the answer to stopping them. He wouldn't have to score really, just defend and probably would dominate with Sabonis. It would have to be the biggest psy-op, inception style heist movie mission to pull it off though.

Simmons is $35M by himself (sans Mills), Holmes/Mitchell/TD is $20M. That doesn't work at all. Did you include Barnes also?

 

[Ozymandias]

Any word on Nerlens Noel?

 

[The_Jamal]

You guys think anyone who isn't a star is trash, because you don't know ball.

Muscala is shooting almost 40% from behind the arc this year and has been solid.

Boston doesn't have room for, nor need second-round picks. And Jackson wasn't making it through today anyway. https://t.co/MegJySlemQ

— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) February 9, 2023

Get em Keith

 

[iowamcnabb]

Eh, Muscala isn't crazy far behind Plumlee and he has team control next year for a nothing contract

true I just wonder if the kings would trade 3 second rounders for a rental

 

[Noble]

Simmons is $35M by himself (sans Mills), Holmes/Mitchell/TD is $20M. That doesn't work at all. Did you include Barnes also?

I'm using therealgm trade machine and it worked somehow, never included barnes

 

[Tetsujin]

Monte McNair and the Sacramento Kings FO moves in silence. There were zero leaks last deadline the Kings were considering swapping Tyrese for Sabonis. Just remember that as the deadline nears 👀

— Cameron Salerno (@cameronsalerno1) February 3, 2023

 

[Ozymandias]

Are these the final hours of Richaun Holmes time in Sacramento?!

 

[Tetsujin]

I'm using therealgm trade machine and it worked somehow, never included barnes

Real Gm trade machine is the worst out of all of them. Fanspo's trade machine is usually on the money with salary matching and restrictions

 

[Tetsujin]

The Milwaukee Bucks are acquiring Jae Crowder in a trade with the Brooklyn Nets for five second-round picks, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) February 9, 2023

FIVE????

 

[Ozymandias]

Wouldnt yall be afraid of Ben Simmons stepping all over Sabonis' toes?

 

[iowamcnabb]

Wow 5 second round picks for crowder haha

 

[hrdboild]

Yikes. I'm actually gonna save this comment, your comparing Steve Nash and Dwight Howard to the Lakers to this seasons KD? Seems a bit like a prisoner of the moment type of take..


Yeah Mikael Bridges and Cam Johnson are better 3pt shooters than Durant this season! FOR SURE! Well said. I believe you! very convincing.

No, I'm comparing your reaction to this trade to how people reacted to Howard and Nash going to the Lakers. They were picked by everyone to cruise into the Finals and then the season started and they were actually mediocre.

I don't know what "prisoner of the moment" take means but if you actually think about these guys playing together not in a video game but on an actual court, it's not clear that this is going to work out. We played Phoenix once so far -- we lost by 5 pts with Devin Booker scoring 44 on 28 shots. Durant and Booker have to split the shots now which leaves less for everyone else and neither one is elite from three point range. Book is shooting 36.5% from deep on the season (slightly above his career average). Durant is shooting 37.6% from deep on the season (slightly below his career average). These guys are both mid-range assassins and now they have to share the floor together with less spot-up shooters to stretch out the defense. They're both good enough that they should be able to find a way to make it work but it won't happen overnight and they have just over 20 games left to figure it out together this season.