NBA Trade Deadline Mega Thread 2025
- Thread starter Tetsujin
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This was almost impossible on the financials, but I was able to make it happen:
PHX Out: Durant
PHX In: Butler
MIL Out: Middleton, Lopez, Portis
MIL In: Durant, Highsmith
MIA Out: Butler, Highsmith, Larsson
MIA In: Middleton, Lopez
SAC Out: TPEs
SAC In: Portis, Larsson
Phoenix is the only team actually unhappy here.
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
What are they trying to figure out, that their team is not good enough to win a chip? You cannot win a championship when your two best players are non shooters.
Actually would be hilarious if LeBron orchestrated all of this to get AD on the Mavs so he could team up with Kyrie one last time
kingsboi
Hall of Famer
night life is booming in Phoenix, you just have to know where to go. Old town Scottsdale is where the action is. Mill Avenue is another. Then you have Glendale near Cardinals stadium. You are making a good choice if you do eventually decide to be a snowbird in AZ.
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
Damn it’s really happening isn’t it
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
Every trade deadline feels insane but this year is absolutely ridiculous and we still have two more days
White_Chocolate
Starter
I still think the most likely outcome of that situation is for Butler to end up on the Suns. I cautiously hope not but if that means Durant goes to a team like the Dubs that would be worse haha
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
reshuffle the core around Book/Beal? Either way it’s hard to imagine them being better without one of the top twenty players in league history.
Also hard to call Beal part of the "core" at this point.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
He’s part of their core in that he is literally untradeable haha
So the only value they got out of the LaVine trade was to get back their own 2025 first rounder and they aren't even going to maximize the value by tanking? Never change Bulls. Never change.
Edit: Nvm, I forgot we're in the timeline where Luka freaking Doncic only cost AD and a FRP. Anything's possible
To make the money work he might have to be. Schroeder can't be aggregated and Wiggins & filler doesn't seem to work.
Edit: But Wiggins & Green plus picks still doesn't work since the Warriors are also a first apron team. This likely would require a third team to be feasible at all.
iowamcnabb
Hall of Famer
could still be a 4 team deal (one for unloading salary to get under aprons) with the Suns, Heat and Warriors. Heat get a minimal amount of draft assets, filler and Wiggins. Durant to the Warriors and then the Suns get Jimmy and Kuminga and picks or something. Warriors Durant/Steph/Podz/Green/minimums. Suns have Book/Beal/Jimmy/Kuminga/Richards. Miami gets Wiggins. Bam/Ware/Wiggins/Highsmith/Herro
chief bromden
Starter
Jimmy has a player option for 50 mil next year. If he doesn't get traded and doesn't play, he's definitely opting into that
Yep, exactly. The Heat can trade him now or over the summer, but they're almost certainly going to trade him.
