also recently reported, “Some executives around the league believe the Timberwolves will trade Karl-Anthony Towns ‘in the next few weeks,’”
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10078715-two-3-team-trades-to-make-james-harden-think-about-the-houston-rockets
by The_Living_L
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as they should. It is stupid to keep building around siakam when he isnt good enough. I would love to see a core built around scottie and scoot
> The timing and order of operations would need to be precise, but in July, the Rockets could sign Harden to the max, acquire Green on an extend-and-trade from Golden State and land both Anunoby and Trent from the Raptors. The bounty from Houston would be divided between the Warriors and Toronto.
> Perhaps it’s No. 4 and one of the Rockets’ top three prospects (Green, Smith or Sengun) to Toronto, with Martin and Porter to the Warriors. Golden State gets a well-regarded young role player in Martin at $1.9 million for 2023-24, a $9.8 million trade exception and an incredible $153.5 million tax savings with Green gone and Porter stretched.
> The Warriors may not be ready to break up with Green, but it has to be tempting. The Raptors get a high pick in a strong draft class, one of Green, Smith or Sengun, plus players like Christopher, Washington and Nix from Houston.
> Harden returns with the Rockets to play with Green, Anunoby and Trent, plus remaining pieces like Eason, Garuba, Tate and the team’s top two remaining prospects. Trent would need to opt in, but an extend-and-trade may appeal to him as well (starting as high as $19.8 million)—if that were the holdup, a deal could easily be forged without him.
> It’s a foundation built on many “ifs,” but it’s certainly arguable to all sides. If Toronto is out, the Rockets and Warriors may be able to get something simpler done with Green.
basically Anunoby, Gary and OPJ for Houston’s 4th pick + one of Jaylen Green, Jabari Smith Jr or Sengun? Yeah that’s not happening
Anytime I read rival executives believe we are going to lean one way we end up doing the opposite
>Several competing executives anticipate
Ah but competing execs thought we would sell at the deadline, because it was the sensible thing to do. We showed them!
Rebuild? I’ll believe it when I see it
Beyond the fact that this roster doesn’t have the talent to contend for anything, if we run it back by signing Fred, Gary and Jak to long term contracts then we’ll be in the luxury tax and we’ll have to be sellers during next seasons trade deadline. [Towards the bottom of this article it lays out in detail how running this core back will put us into the luxury tax and how we can go about avoiding it](https://www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/how-the-raptors-trade-deadline-outcome-could-impact-roster-decisions-this-off-season/). Our cap and talent situation is obvious to other executives around the league and anyone paying attention so the only logical direction this team should be taking is to blow it up and start a rebuild.
What’s with this preoccupation with “building around” guys – especially those who haven’t proven much. Build a better all around team!
We were also sellers during the deadlines that “execs believed”
Just a reminder that “rival execs” don’t know shit. They thought there would be a firesale last trade deadline, and just an article or two ago, were equally perplexed as the fanbase about wtf the Raps organization wants to do.
We should 100% rebuild. We aren’t winning shit with Siakam as our best player and his value will most likely never be higher
Scoot x Scott 🔥
Fantasy land/10 trade concept
Cmon, is there anyway we can keep Gary? I get that the guy can sometimes be a slob, but he’s young, got potential, and could be a key rotation player for years to come, he could fit right in for a rebuild.
I can see both turning down their player options but losing them both in free agency would be catastrophic regardless of the direction the team wants to go in.
It’s hard to rebuild when you don’t even have assets to sell/when you could have sold them at the deadline.
And yeah I know, rival execs =/= what the FO will do but at the very least it seems like Fred has a lot of suitors and it’s going to be costly to either retain him (Let’s say $28-30m/year) or replace him with the scraps you get from a sign and trade
They not rebuilding until they move 2 of the starters
we’ll see it to believe it
It’s pretty tough to pin OG’s trade value, but I was willing to consider something like a Nembhard and #7 + filler package from Indiana. Getting Sengun + #4 is the sort of ‘too good to refuse’ offer that would kick off a rebuild. See if you can get #3, #23, Simons, and Little for Siakam, and then have a young core of something like Scoot (3) / Amen (4) / Simons / Little / Barnes / Sengun / Coulibaly (13) / Jackson (23) / Achiuwa / Koloko. Okay, that’s definitely a lottery team and potentially top-6 lottery team next year. But it’s super-high upside with a really nice and complimentary mix of skills.
monumental failure from the FO if Siakam is on this team during training camp.