[Smith] According to league sources, the calls on Brown started hours after the Raptors obtained him from Indiana in the Pascal Siakam trade Wednesday afternoon…If the Raptors could flip him for another player and pick up an additional draft pick in the process before the Feb. 8 trade deadline…
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If we can trade him for a player + a future 1st I’d do it.
Yeah he’s gone
2025 1st and a young big for Bruce Brown, I’d pull the trigger
Doug Smith late to the party as usual
Then trade whatever player you end up getting for another pick and player. Trade inception
Depends on the player and pick ie Fournier and Bertans are technically NBA players but they’re almost certainly getting waived
I would not be opposed to a swap in 2024 of the OKC/Clippers pick depending on the player that gets attached if it’s a team that can’t trade a 2025 first but again, would want to see what player comes with the presumed filler
If they had traded OG for picks we’d have added like 9 first round picks.
I also wonder if the front office chose Brown instead of Jackson/Smith + filler. It was only reported that Mathurin and Nembhard were off limits.
Yeah, I like him but there is a lot of value there not only because of what he brings, but how that contract is structured. I think there’s a few compensation options here:
1. expiring contract and future FRP that could realistically fall in the mid-first range.
2. bad contract, lottery potential FRP, and young rookie-scale player or two with upside.
3. useful player on reasonable value contract and an expiring contract.
4. Using him and additional draft compensation to go after a good young player who makes sense long-term.
In any scenario, contenders are also going to be looking to bolster depth, and so trades where we combine him and one of our useful expirings or Schroder could make a compelling package for another team. (Of course, we can’t aggregate Brown’s salary, but the range of outgoing salaries we could add gives a lot of different options there).
Personally, I like the potential of scenario two, basically maximize the return here for this asset, acknowledge that there are no good realistic free agent targets this summer, and then have a package of this bad-contract expiring and other picks/young assets to flip for a high-impact upgrade after we have a better understanding of what we need to have the roster take a big step, a couple years down the line.
Not bad basically 4 1sts for siakam expiring 《brown flipped》
Quickly
barret
and 31st pick
For og expiring
Find a way to turn Bruce Brown into Herb Jones, please Masai,
Porter can do the funniest thing by getting his old number back and just pocketing the 10k
While they’re at it, they should also flip GTJ, Dennis, Boucher, and Poeltl. Anything with value that you dont see being a part of the future.
I would be very surprised if we don’t trade him. It just seems like too good of an opportunity. Someone is going to pony up for him.
I am completely fine keeping him if the right deal doesn’t come along.
we need herb
Send his ass packing
Should we buy low on Huerter? He’s signed to a pretty reasonable contract for 2 more years. I can’t see many other teams wanting him so we could also get a 1st out of it.
We spent so much time justifying the Poeltl deal on the basis that the 2024 draft class was weak. Now we are four plates in at the 2024 all you can eat draft buffet and asking for more.
Brown and to a lesser extent Schroder are the most valuable trade pieces outside of the protected players. I think we keep Schroeder because we need a steady veteran PG more than we do an elite defense-first ultra role player, and Schroder doesn’t get as much in trade as Brown.
Players I expect to be gone are: Brown, Boucher
Player I expect to stay: Schroder
Player I am unsure of: GTJ (young enough to stay at the right price, otherwise I think he’s gone).
Of course things change if the current hall of picks are used to bring in younger players with potential.
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