iowamcnabb
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Could be, but the more likely scenerio is due to the back to back given they did the same thing last time.
[NBA] Trade Deadline Season 2026 Open Thread
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Could be, but the more likely scenerio is due to the back to back given they did the same thing last time.
Padrino
All-Star
Well, if you're offering a best guess, you put your money on stasis under the current market conditions. It's just harder to execute big trades now, period, and even harder to do so before the deadline. NBA trade rumors have never been less interesting in that they portend so little. In the past, you could reasonably say "Where there's smoke, there's fire", but it's so much more difficult to get a flame going on the trade market under the new CBA.
Short of a great deal, that's probably my preferred outcome. You can always move him in the offseason.
It's a no thanks for me.
Padrino
All-Star
For taking on Poeltl's bloated deal and tossing Keon into the framework, I need at least one more first rounder, protected is fine. Failing that, I need at least two swaps. Pull Ellis out of the framework, and I could be convinced to accept less than that, but I'm not sending out the best player in the deal and also forking over an extremely useful 3 and D ace while relieving the Raptors of the Poeltl contract for anything less than three first rounders or two first rounders and two swaps.
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
More like most toxic organization. There is going to be a mourning period for whoever can't get out at this deadline. haha.
Two picks in the 20s, a bad contract (though Jakob Poeltl has the best hockey name in the NBA so that's something), and the best player coming our way is another SG who is mostly a one-dimensional scorer. Not very exciting but this is probably the best we're going to get at the trade deadline. Throwing in Keon Ellis basically for free makes this a likely no from me. I'd hang onto Sabonis and see what's available on draft day instead.
I don't like it. Especially not for where those picks will be.
Everyone else can suffer here, Domas doesn't deserve it though
QWERTYLICIOUS
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I would want to see more picks come our way.
sactowndog
Hall of Famer
All players being discussed should be glued to the bench tomorrow against the Wizards
Tetsujin
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TaxMan
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The IDEA of taking a shot that Dillingham makes sense for our rebuild. Honestly though I just have no clue if he’s shown enough glimpses of talent that just needs an opportunity and some time, or if he’s just a former lottery pick who just sucks.
Tetsujin
The Game Thread Dude
You’d really just be betting on the whole “Calipari has never really coached a bad NBA point guard aside” narrative and hoping that Dillingham follows the Malik Monk trajectory but yeah I’m not sure if he’s any good or not
Pretty sure I once held VITKREJCI in a 9-tile Scrabble game and used my turn to swap out all my letters for DUOPREATH. Didn't help much.
I'd take a flyer on Leonard Miller for sure.
TaxMan
Starter
I don’t know….similar to “half the league” is asking about Keon, this is starting to feel like BJ Armstrong shooting off DM’s to his podcaster buddies to tell the we’ve got a lot of interest in order to increase the price with the Raptors.
SacTownKid
Hall of Famer
And like usual they're rating Hunter at his lowest point. Hunter is easily the most talented true wing 3/4 the Kings have had since Rudy Gay. The problem is they've added him before they got their big building block like Cuz. Jumbling up the order can have consequences.
He fits their 27 timeline too. Makes a ton of sense