Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[Jason Terry]

It makes a lot more sense to only cash in AD and Klay, in case Flagg is that dude. We were in the NBA finals with Luka, Kyrie, Jones, Washington, Lively. 

Now don´t get me wrong Lavine, Christie, Russell and DeRozan are nowhere near Luka, but in combination with an improving Flagg (and two lottery picks) that should be a 45 win team. Why waste away in 20 win seasons, when you don´t own your pick anyway and your fanbase wants to burn down the arena.

Yes. We want to be bad for one year. Then good for many years. Can’t fully rebuild. Can’t do nothing 

Flagg, Lively, Christie are the start start of the young core 

Kyrie and PJ are the veteran keepers. Kyrie makes sense short term because of the one year tank we can wait to bring him back. He makes sense long term because guards, scoring, creation, and veteran leadership will be the biggest holes to fill going forward 

AD, Klay and Naji are the guys to trade now. AD is brittle and has value and we have too many bigs. Klay is old. Naji is too good to tank with 

Gafford could be traded or kept but there’s no rush 

Martin, Russell and Hardy have no value and aren’t part of the future