(06-15-2024, 10:40 PM)F Gump Wrote: I like the Sexton idea where DJJ signs the 1 + 1 , followed by THJ, Hardy, 2025 FRP for Collin Sexton. In that deal I would ask for a pick in return, 2024 low 1st or early 2nd. Utah has more picks this year than they can use, and not sure Sexton (with that contract) is worth all that.
 

(06-16-2024, 09:05 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: FWIW:

Sexton signed a Nike endorsement as a rookie.  He wears Kyrie 7's (it seems we always hear stories of how Nico has known the guys he's traded for/drafted for years before getting them)

His coach at Alabama was Avery Johnson

Dallas (Nico) reportedly pursued a deal for Sexton when he was RFA in the summer of 22.  We didn't have much to offer and he eventually was part of the Donovan Mitchell deal.

I have liked Utah's early 2nd as a way of inexpensively filling a roster spot while also generating some value back for our 2025 first.  The front office has done much more of this kind of value realization lately (where they exchange picks rather than just give them away).  The interesting question will be the protection on our first.  From Utah's perspective, that future pick from us is a much better trade asset than their current pick.

Sexton is not a starting guard on a good team.  The question is whether he knows that yet.  He can certainly put up numbers as a starter on a bad team.  But there comes a point in people's careers where they have to decide if they want to adapt their game to win or just take lots of shots and make lots of money.  

His downhill style fits well with how Luka and Kyrie dominate the ball and attack the basket to create.  He's also above average as the Pick and Roll ball handler.  Off the ball, he is very good from the corner (which is traditionally only 20% of his 3's) and hit 44% of his catch and shoot threes.  He would bring a lot of energy to a second unit and reduce the regular season workload on Luka and Kyrie.

(06-16-2024, 10:09 AM)omahen Wrote: That is all correct, but I am with Chicago on this one. I just can't see him playing heavy minutes in playoffs and Mavs being successful. I don't think you can play him next to Luka and Kyrie and hope for excellent defense and his salary is way too high for him to be a 10 min per game player in the playoffs.

(06-16-2024, 11:27 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: @esidery
The Nuggets have concerns Kentavious Caldwell-Pope could earn a deal in free agency similar to Bruce Brown, per
@MikeAScotto
(https://hoopshype.com/lists/aggregate-2024-nba-mock-draft-intel-on-knicks-suns-spurs-76ers-raptors-nuggets-wizards-more/).

A team flush with cap space could offer Caldwell-Pope well over $20 million annually to price out Denver.

(06-16-2024, 02:00 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: Cowley, a beat reporter for the Chicago Bulls just released this little nugget talking about Chicago's draft night:

What remains to be seen, however, is what direction do the Bulls go? Do they prepare for DeMar DeRozan possibly leaving in free agency or if he does return — the more likely scenario — draft his heir apparent at the small forward position? Do they grab a big to replace the expected vacancy with Andre Drummond looking for a new team, as well as some youth to push starter Nikola Vucevic?


So Drummond is leaving Chicago.

(06-17-2024, 11:15 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: @TheDunkCentral
The New Orleans Pelicans are unwilling to pay Brandon Ingram an average of $52 million annually, per @cclark_13


“Brandon Ingram has one year remaining on his contract. On July 6, he becomes eligible to sign a four-year extension worth $208 million. The Pelicans value Ingram’s talent and his down-to-earth personality, but as The Times-Picayune reported in May, the team does not have a willingness to pay him a contract worth $52 million in average annual value.”

(06-17-2024, 11:15 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: @TheDunkCentral
The New Orleans Pelicans are unwilling to pay Brandon Ingram an average of $52 million annually, per @cclark_13


“Brandon Ingram has one year remaining on his contract. On July 6, he becomes eligible to sign a four-year extension worth $208 million. The Pelicans value Ingram’s talent and his down-to-earth personality, but as The Times-Picayune reported in May, the team does not have a willingness to pay him a contract worth $52 million in average annual value.”

(06-16-2024, 10:14 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: I think Sexton absolutely could play next to Luka. Kyrie is a bit more questionable, like Simons. The thing Sexton has going for him is that he plays bigger than his measurements say. 

The Utah pick intrigues me as it's a way for the Mavs to try and draft Bronny James. If we could get Sexton and Lebron this offseason we're cooking.

(06-17-2024, 01:10 PM)mvossman Wrote: The problem is Kyrie plays 40 minutes a game in the playoffs, so you have 8 minutes where Sexton makes sense on the court.  

It seems like there is thought that we can get a young score first guard (like Simons or Sexton) to boost the offense and eventually replace Kyrie.  I don't think we should be trying to find a Kyrie replacement right now.  I don't think we have the assets.  When we do look for the Kyire replacement, I don't think it should be a smaller score first guard.  In an ideal world it would be a two way wing.  That gives us a lot more options to fill in the edges.

(06-17-2024, 01:10 PM)mvossman Wrote: The problem is Kyrie plays 40 minutes a game in the playoffs, so you have 8 minutes where Sexton makes sense on the court.