DEVELOPING NEWS: Pascal Siakam to the Pacers…?

DEVELOPING NEWS: Pascal Siakam to the Pacers…?

957 the game breaking news and this is according to Shams and that is that the Toronto Raptors and the Indiana Pacers are in active talks on a trade centered on two-time Allstar Pascal cakam for a package that is expected to include three first round draft picks so that is the story it is

Not a done deal but when you start to see what the return is and just process it through the fact that Shams decided to go ahead and put this on Twitter that tells you that a deal is apparently in terms of a framework is in place and

They are moving toward the goal line of Pascal cakam headed to the Indiana Pacers which by the way has been the favorite landing spot for him all along active talks I mean that’s not a done deal but active talks mean all right let’s make sure that everything works

The active talks they’re probably both on the NBA trade machine type type type in a way to make sure that that is going to work financially and you look at the Pacers they don’t have a lot of Big Time dollars they do have Miles Turner you got buddy heel on an expiring at

19.2 you got Bruce Brown making 22 with a team option for next year other than that the Pacers are replete with uh low PRC guys right which is why the picks would have to go well and the takeaway for me is just that and I I think if

You’re a warrior fan this is what needs to resonate in your mind if you were hopeful of the Warriors getting Pascal cakam and I’ve been trying to say this for weeks when people are like good send them Wiggins the Toronto Raptors were getting rid of Pascal SE yakum at the

Deadline for one reason and one reason alone and that is to gain future young Assets Now there was never never a time where the warriors were going to get into this conversation without including kaminga and Moody and most Warrior fans I know are like get yakum but don’t

Trade Kingo well you can’t do that you just can’t do it the Warriors do not have the young assets to give up unless they’re fully willing to get rid of their two young pieces maybe even three put psky in there as well and so if you

Want to do that then maybe you could get Pascal cakam but if you’re not going to do that that’s what Toronto’s after they’re not for they’re not out for your salary matchers they’re not out for Andrew Wiggins right they’re out for building blocks for the future and so

The Pacers are apparently willing to include three first round draft picks that’s what the Raptors are after and and so um SE yakum and the Warriors has never been a perfect fit because you you would have to ask yourself what are you after here what are you after because I

Hear people do this all the time well the Warriors need to make a trade but it’s not like they’re winning this year well then there’s no reason to go get Pascal seak right if you don’t think this year’s salvageable that’s not the phone call to make well if you do think

It’s salvageable and it’s going to cost you kaminga and let’s just say you could get rid of Chris Paul although I think Toronto would rather have buddy hee if he’s in the deal we don’t really know yet you’re GNA have to throw in three first round picks and your lottery

Selection in kaminga who is playing great of late he’s trending toward being a really good player you bring in cakam you lose Chris Paul and is that team good enough to win a championship this year because if it isn’t Clay’s expiring siakam’s expiring and you lost kaminga

And multiple first round picks all for a two-month hope so I don’t think that that deal makes sense and I I’m wondering what Indiana will throw in terms of salary because you don’t want to trade Miles Turner you probably do want to trade but buddy healed he’s only making

19.3 you got to climb all the way up they have uh Daniel Theus making almost seven and he almost never play so I wonder if you know this rule I don’t know this rule what are the picks worth when it comes to the salary match superation I don’t know do you know I

Don’t know I’m I want to look that up there wereth something that yeah there were Absolut I think so they’re not just I don’t think you have to do a full full salary match if they’re picks in there there has to be a financial value attached to them I don’t know that rule

And I would love to know that rule uh when it comes to to something like this in terms of what the Pacers might have to uh to throw in there um but from the warrior side here here’s sort of what I’m thinking especially after watching the long weekend of basketball on the

Road where I would say that was a fun and nice win in Chicago though you came out of it going they still can’t stop anybody then you had a surprising and fun loss in Milwaukee because they hung in there and Steph didn’t play and then you had yesterday which made you want to

Vomit so that’s kind of the way you look at the weekend and now add this in let’s assume cakam this goes through and he’s going to the Indiana Pacers let’s also keep in mind what happened individually in some of these games over the weekend Jonathan kaminga was

Fantastic yep he was flat out fantastic and the Warriors already according to reports were real hesitant to give him up so if Andrew Wiggins if they’re hellbent on dealing him even if they get almost nothing in return and kaminga is playing his way into staying I think you add up everything

That happened over the weekend I’m certainly not saying it’s likely I’m simply saying that I think it became a little bit likelier that the names clay and Dre could end up in a trade wow that to me would be stunning I agree I’m still putting it at way less than 50/50 yeah

But I’m just putting building blocks together of a you lost games you should win sure B kaminga played his butt off C siakam’s going somewhere else uh d you all seem hell hellbent on getting rid of Wiggins even if you just get a song back put that all together and if what you’re

Going to say is kaminga doesn’t go but boy we really want to make moves ah all I’m saying is there’s a slight uptick in the possibility in my mind that in particular Draymond Green um might be involved in a deal yeah I mean you’re talking about a couple of uh major deals

I don’t think they’d be involved in the same deal and I know there there’s been rumors of Draymond Green getting traded to the Lakers and uh hachimura being involved and vvi ultimately being the player that they net I can’t remember who cited that as a three- team trade

Bill Sim Chicago so that’s a trade that one makes sense to me Draymond going to La and joining LeBron and if it gets you vvi then maybe that’s something I also heard rumors about dejonte Murray and Atlanta maybe being a piece that the Warriors would want and you know the

Hawks are a team that have kind of been a mess in terms of how they’re running things so you might be able to get dejonte Murray Wiggins might be a part of that if you can convince them like Steve was trying to convince us that he’s been playing better and I thought

He did play better last night wigin showing a little bit more effort a little bit more of the forcefulness that you want from him and honestly right now Mark if you’re a warrior fan you want Wiggins out there playing well you need him playing well that way his value can

Rise from where it’s been which has been next to zero yeah I agree with you although I don’t know if a couple of games here or there at the end of of January are really going to Peak the interest of of other teams I just don’t

Know I like this has felt to me all along like something that is well known inside NBA circles and not wellknown outside we’re all sitting here with the same thoughts about Andrew Wiggins we have no idea what the hell happened all I know is he disappeared for February

And March then he came back he was kind of nice in the playoffs and there was an injury at the end and he’s come back this year and look like the absolute worst version of himself that we’ve ever seen and from Kendra Andrews to Stephen A Smith everybody

Who’s really dialed in in the NBA circles behind the scenes seems to know what went on but no one will tell and I get that and that’s fine but I I believe that these things are related and and I would imagine that NBA GMS know what’s

Going on and so they feel based on what I’m hearing very hesitant to give up anything that matters for Andrew Wiggins well he might be a part of a of a bigger trade or you’re going to send a pick out then and I know you can’t send this this

Year’s pick out because it’s already spoken for only top four protected but you’ve got future draft picks and if you’re thinking in terms of the way you think which is the future of golden state only extends as long as Steph Curry is here so you’re talking about

Two or three years maybe you do end up trading a couple of fur in the future in order to get something back now that can be helpful to Steph Curry yeah that well that’s again helpful to Steph Curry means what let’s define that Draymond Green is what it

Means in my opinion that’s why I don’t think that he gets traded the clay piece is interesting because he is expiring but what team would want to take on the rest of 42 million for clay knowing that at the end of the year he can go

Wherever he wants well sure but that’s I mean that’s the right like I mean if you’re going for a run if you’re trying to if you’re trying to go for a run you know what I mean 29 though still playing Peak basketball but if somebody thinks hey we could use a

Wing shooter three and D guy for a title run uh Klay Thompson’s not a ridiculous idea he’s not a ridiculous idea and and his but Warrior fans also need to understand that his return would reflect that yeah the return would not be about the name value of Klay Thompson it would be an

Expiring guy that we want to get for a run and with no promises after that and you don’t get a lot for that stuff right and You’ have to find and we went through the list of salaries before with claym 42 there aren’t a lot of matches

All the guys making that much are number ones or you know it’s it’s Kawai and Paul George with the Clippers yeah they aren’t guys who are going to get dealt you could gather more than one person though to add up to that so that’s that’s one possib ability but listen

Again I I still put it at much less than likely but that to me is the exercise if I’m Mike dun Ley Joe lob everybody over there right now you got to Define what that sentence means maximizing the end of Steph Curry’s career for I think a couple years now we have automatically

Defined that as keeping the big three and potentially moving young pieces to give the big three even more yeah well if this year a title run is totally far-fetched which it is well then what does that mean what does maximizing the remainder of Steph Curry’s career mean I

Think it means something different now it doesn’t mean hey all in on big three and let’s see if we can find more veterans to put around them like I don’t know trade Jordan pool for Chris Paul okay that’s one idea but if now becomes totally far-fetched you’re actually talking about the next two

Years so you’re not going to mortgage kaminga for seum that doesn’t that that doesn’t Ma so I wonder what Steph is thinking when you say maximize the rest of his career is he thinking this season or is he thinking next season maybe they’re thinking wishnowski honestly if you’re I you mean

I know what you if you’re four below and could Kay’s coming off the books and Paul’s coming off the books and Wiggins you still hold out hope that Wiggins might be the player that he used to be and at the very least like you said Mark

If you try to deal them now you’re selling low maybe you wait until the off season when Wiggins is actually back so if you’re four games below and there’s no deal at the deadline that makes real good sense then you go full wishnowski and you play it out you play the kids

And then you get to April and May and realize all right clay will you take half and what are we doing with the rest of our roster spots can we get better between now and next October if in fact there’s nothing you could do with the deadline

Willard and Dibs react to developing NBA news: Shams Charania reports that the Pacers and Raptors are close to a trade that would send Pascal Siakam to Indiana. If this is true, how does it impact the Warriors’ plans at the deadline?

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