Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[F Gump]

I think when you read that Schmitz’s old team, your brain said Masai’s old team.  I was talking about Portland, not TOR.  

The trouble with Portland is they don’t really need a center and are locked at their starting PF and SF positions with Camara and Avdija.  They don’t have anyone to back up either of those spots.  I suspect PJ is too expensive to be a backup there.  Naji.

The other issue is that we don’t really know if Sharpe and Scoot are good at basketball.  I’m pretty sure Sharpe isn’t.  Scoot is from the same draft class as Cason Wallace and Lively.  Do you immediately extend him?  Do you wait a year and play the RFA game next summer.  With all of the money they have tied up in Ja, Jrue and to a lesser extent Lillard, I could see them moving him before they have to pay him too.  But, for what in a deal with Dallas?

" I think when you read that Schmitz’s old team, your brain said Masai’s old team" --- Indeed. Oops.

On the POR front, even though they have a glut, I have a real hard time getting excited about any of those leftover PGs. I know the old axiom about beggars and choosers, but I also recall (way too vividly) how we followed that same axiom last summer to get the incredibly useless carcass of DAR. As it turned out, nothing at all would have been a much better PG choice than DAR, as getting him (a) forced them to find someone to take him, and (b) the hole remains unfixed. Nico was an idiot GM, to be sure, so that's part of the equation to avoid, but I want a solution this time that's more promising. 

On the accidental mention of TOR, I still do think that if the KL deal is real, there could very well be something there to be exploited because M knows those players AND there may be some shuffling flowing from the dust settling. The same applies to S and POR, of course.