(01-17-2024, 06:58 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: I was checking Raptors Reddit and someone had options of which team they would like to move Brown to.  For Dallas the package was Holmes, Josh Green and a second round raptors pick that Dallas currently owns supposedly.  I am not even sure if that trade is legal.  Would u do it though?  I would say no but wanted to see if others have different takes.  Brown is a better player currently, I think.  He is 5 year older but still 27.  Team option next year on a bloated contract.

(01-17-2024, 12:24 PM)SleepingHero Wrote: @JakeLFischer
Dallas has been one of the teams engaged in acquiring Siakam, sources said. The Mavericks continue to be linked to various versatile forwards, from Andrew Wiggins to P.J. Washington to old friend Dorian Finney-Smith, according to league sources.

 
The Hornets have indicated that they will be more active this deadline, with influence from new ownership, than how the front office has conducted business in previous transaction windows. Charlotte is said to have all players available outside of LaMelo Ball, Brandon Miller and Mark Williams, per league personnel. 

(01-18-2024, 09:41 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: Wiggins and PJ both look like crap so far this season.  Both have the potential to be buy-low swings that can pay off nicely.  Both have the potential to just be dead weight on the cap.  Given what we might be willing to give up, these two seem more likely than DFS.  IOW, Wiggins/PJ is a different type of conversation than DFS.

Neither Wiggins nor PJ is a game changer...small incremental change depending on the outgoing.  But, the outgoing shouldn't be that much in the case of PJ and you might even get an asset for taking on Wiggins.  PJ is a declining salary that runs the same length as Kyrie's contract.  You can get him with less outgoing salary (need $9.35mm) versus Wiggins (need $16.8mm).  The Wiggins deal runs a year longer and escalates.  He's a bigger financial risk, but peak-Wiggins is the better defender on a team that needs more D.

My guess is the PJ deal would be Holmes and an asset (Holmes plus Hardy keeps Dallas barely under the tax).  He hasn't played well enough to garner much more than that.  I like the Hardy fit with Ball, Miller and Williams.  Wiggins would probably be Holmes/GWill and maybe something coming back to Dallas.  I could see GS doing this if Holmes was expiring.  If that were the case, they could lower salary while letting GWill take on the role Wiggins fills for that team.  Maybe GS pays someone like Washington to take a year of Holmes in their TPE.  People can add 2nds and other players around the fringes, but that would be my guess in terms of the base assets to be dealt if something like this were to happen.

(01-18-2024, 10:34 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: (@TheDunkCentral)
Quentin Grimes is reportedly frustrated in New York and the Knicks are ‘actively’ trying to trade him, per @SbondyNBA

The Dallas Mavericks are a team with interest in Grimes

“There's also speculation that Thibodeau soured on Grimes for sitting out the last two games in the playoff series against the Cavaliers because of shoulder injury.”

(01-18-2024, 11:01 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: I honestly hope Wiggins isn’t even really being considered.

I would rather have PJ Washington than DFS, I think, but DFS is always welcome to come home, obviously.

(01-18-2024, 11:03 AM)Nowitzki Way Wrote: I'm not sure what we could give up that would make sense, but Grimes would be a solid get. 

Right now we have a logjam in that area with Hardaway, Curry, and Hardy.

If we move THJ in a trade for a big, Grimes would slide perfectly into his role.

(01-18-2024, 11:05 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: No clue who this dude is so take with a grain of salt:

(@NBATradeReport)
#Sources — Brooklyn positioning themselves to be “sellers” at the trade deadline. Will be looking to acquire multiple first-round draft picks. #NBA

(01-18-2024, 11:29 AM)RGP1981 Wrote: If possible, I want Nic Claxton. Lively has been really good but he has slow feet. So I like Claxton's fit on a team with Luka better.

Kyrie, Grimes, Luka, Jerami, Claxton

(01-18-2024, 11:03 AM)Nowitzki Way Wrote: I'm not sure what we could give up that would make sense, but Grimes would be a solid get. 

Right now we have a logjam in that area with Hardaway, Curry, and Hardy.

If we move THJ in a trade for a big, Grimes would slide perfectly into his role.

(01-18-2024, 11:29 AM)RGP1981 Wrote: If possible, I want Nic Claxton. Lively has been really good but he has slower feet. So I like Claxton's fit on a team with Luka better.

Kyrie, Grimes, Luka, Jerami, Claxton

If the Mavs FO also swapped Kyrie for Dejounte, I would not complain, although Kyrie has been really good here. There's multiple reasons to do the trade: get something of value back from the trade, lower salary, improve and become more switchable on defense, get younger.

Additional possible positive... the influx of lean, fit, athletic players like Claxton, Murray and Jerami might influence Luka to get and stay in even better shape. It's not likely, but it's possible.

(01-18-2024, 11:26 AM)StrandedOnBeauboisHill Wrote: Wonder what a Grimes trade would look like. I assume that Fournier would have to be attached since Grimes makes so little. What would we offer up for a package of Grimes/Sims/Fournier? Would kick the can down the road a little bit on a starting PF but he would be a great 3 next to Luka and Kyrie longterm. True 3 and D sort of player.

(01-18-2024, 11:35 AM)Scott41theMavs Wrote: Dang, still 27 days of trade window left.