Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[HoosierDaddyKid]

Chris Herrington: Everything I’ve heard is that the Edey trajectory hasn’t changed. Expectation is he’ll be ready for opening night. But I also expect they’ll be careful with him. He’ll miss games. So will Stewart. They needed a third center.

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[Winter]

Let's say it is Cleveland, just as a hypothetical...does that mean anyone from there might be available? 

I'm struggling to see enough usage to go around for Harden, LeBron AND Mitchell, even short term.

I heard Jarrett Allen might be made available this morning.

Funny, I've heard two analysts say Cleveland might try to make room from Bronny - which is a level of extraordinary suck-up

[Scott41theMavs]

so May is being interviewed on the Ticket now.  Just started.  Mentioning getting D-live healthy and also mentioned PJ and Gafford as veterans.

“We love our boys in blue.”

[HoosierDaddyKid]

Heat Central: GIANNIS ON BAM: “Bam Adebayo, man that mf, he is good. BBQ chicken!”

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[RoyTarpleysGhost]

Can’t believe we missed out on star player Rui Hachimura

[KillerLeft]

Funny, I've heard two analysts say Cleveland might try to make room from Bronny - which is a level of extraordinary suck-up

If that happened, my eyes might roll soooo hard that they get stuck in some unnatural position for the rest of my life. 

I'm so, so, so glad we won't have to deal with this circus in Dallas. No LeBron and no Aday Mara, so I'm pretty much on board with this summer's moves no matter where they go from here.

[Chicagojk]

so May is being interviewed on the Ticket now.  Just started.  Mentioning getting D-live healthy and also mentioned PJ and Gafford as veterans.

mentioned D-live again and also Max

[HoosierDaddyKid]

Yossi Gozlan: Los Angeles Clippers salary cap with Rui Hachimura. This framework fits in the mid-level exception, which would hard-cap them to the first apron. They could alternatively sign him with cap space. They still have plenty of luxury tax space to take on more salaries in trades.

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[speedkilz88]

Can’t believe we missed out on star player Rui Hachimura

We will Rui the day!  Those 10 playoff games he played in were a great 10 games!

[cow]

Let's say it is Cleveland, just as a hypothetical...does that mean anyone from there might be available? 

I'm struggling to see enough usage to go around for Harden, LeBron AND Mitchell, even short term.

I'll take one Donovan Mitchell, please.

[HoosierDaddyKid]

Yossi Gozlan: This contract for Quentin Post will go into the Grizzlies' mid-level exception. If matched, it’ll be replenished for different moves. If unmatched, they’ll need to acquire Isaiah Stewart with the big $29 million trade exception or by expanding the Santi Aldama trade. I suspect the Warriors won’t match, as they need to maintain cap flexibility for other potential moves.

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[KillerLeft]

I'll take one Donovan Mitchell, please.

I don't know that he's the right guy for Dallas (don't know that he's not, to be fair), but I wonder whether a LeBron signing might make him available. I really do.

[Knutsen]

I don't know that he's the right guy for Dallas (don't know that he's not, to be fair), but I wonder whether a LeBron signing might make him available. I really do.

Definitely not… They‘ll just trying to give him enough help to win in the playoffs.

[KillerLeft]

Youtube pushed Brad Stevens' Brown trade press conference stream to my home feed. Between that and everything else, I guess I'm not getting any writing done today.

Predictably, this is being handled 100x better than the press conference that immediately followed the Luka trade. Night and day. Transparency of thinking (simply put: they didn't think 70% of the cap and 80% of the usage being tied up with two players was a sustainable team-building model, and they're probably right), but mixed in with a TON of empathy and gushing over what an important part of team history Brown is.

[KillerLeft]

Definitely not… They‘ll just trying to give him enough help to win in the playoffs.

You might be right. I don't think it's going to work, though.

[Chicagojk]

These workout video always get me.  Ha.  He does look in better shape than the last time he played.  

We should be seeing Ben Simmons highlihghts soon too. 

https://x.com/TheHoopCentral/status/2074182641490984990

[KillerLeft]

These workout video always get me.  Ha.  He does look in better shape than the last time he played.  

We should be seeing Ben Simmons highlihghts soon too. 

https://x.com/TheHoopCentral/status/2074182641490984990

Ben Simmons announced last week a list of teams "he'd consider." I'm not even joking (though it is a joke, obviously). Miami was one of them, I remember.

[DallasMaverick]

Yeah, I mean...I think we're saying the same stuff, honestly.

Me, too.

I agree with what everyone has said so far.

[cow]

I don't know that he's the right guy for Dallas (don't know that he's not, to be fair), but I wonder whether a LeBron signing might make him available. I really do.

I don't think Cleveland is dumb enough to short sell Spider for the rotting corpses of Lebron and Harden.

[Knutsen]

You might be right. I don't think it's going to work, though.

It won’t - they have way too many „one-way-players“, that are either good on offense or on defense, but that doesn’t balance out as far as I‘m concerned.