NBA TRADE TALK: TDL over

[cow]

If we are entering the trade KP island, it's just very difficult to find partners who are actually interested in trading FOR Porzingis. With better options like Turner, Sabonis, Wood and Nurkic available offers would be very few and bad. The ones I could see going after him are:

CHA (Hayward?); - They absolutely need to address the center position if they want to compete.

SAC: (Hield + Bagley?); - Higher ceiling on a guard oriented team, opening the lane more for Fox/Haliburton.

SAS: (Poeltl + White?); - Higher ceiling on a wing oriented team, would add some needed offense.

Those are probably it. My best bet is we'll keep him for lack of decent offers and try to find a trade of:

Thimothy (unlikely because the morons like his "leadership");

OR

Powell/Bullock/Cauley-Stein (for someone in a bad contract that can at least play some positive good minutes for us).

While Hield + Bagley would be interesting I'm not sure either team would come to terms.  I'm assuming Mavs would a little more compensation from the deal and with the Kings only owning their own FRPs, those are probably off limits with a team that looks headed towards the lottery.  I also think they'd be much more likely to look for draft compensation for moving Hield to a contender.  Still, if you could somehow work this out and then ship THJ (with the gained draft compensation) to Detroit for Grant, that would be a solid series of moves.

As for KP destinations, you could start looking for desperate/handcuffed would-be contenders like the Lakers.