Bleacher Report Names A Trade Deadline Target For Every NBA Team

Bleacher Report Names A Trade Deadline Target For Every NBA Team

All right boys it’s time for me to return home to Bleacher Report articles shout out to Zach top three trade deadline targets as always we start with the Atlanta Hawks we got a picture of Austin Reeves what do they got Austin Reeves Quinton Grimes and draft picks

Yeah so it seems that where we are at on the Deonte Lakers stuff is that the Hawks want Austin Reeves the Lakers don’t want to give them up Atlanta doesn’t want DLo the thing with that is that DLo has been lighting the world on fire lately for the Lakers and I’m not

Sure any other team has like really been as talked about Ford Deonte as La look regardless of all that the goal has got to be the dudes next to Trey young obviously you want the floor to be spaced out you want you want the lob threats around and you want size and

Defenders I mean they already got Jaylen Johnson of course and of course they were thinking that Deonte could be one of those Defenders and yeah defense didn’t hit the same as it did in San Antonio I don’t really think Austin Reeves would fit into the big Defender

Around Trey young but I mean I guess if you can get good players in any sort of move you take the opportunity of course again Lakers is not really cooperating on that end right now with them while we can also acknowledge that Trey has definitely done well defensively for a

Minute now you know effort team defense hedging on screens whatever it is to not give up a switch right and of course the caveat of because of trade size there’s a limitation on what he can be defensively but I think he for himself has done better and so whether that’s

Going to come from the dejonte trade or it’ll eventually come from the assets that they could get in the dejonte trade and potentially like capella if that ends up happening uh okay you know Trey young he doesn’t have like a million years left on his contract so they

Really need a good next few months as far as transactions you know this deadline in the off season I like how I’m operating under the assumption that Deon is just definitely gone but I think we all are now we go to my Celtics we got a picture of cheddy Osman cheddy

Osman niji Marshall and John conar yeah I think this is the right idea with the Celtics obviously they don’t have a whole lot of assets if think if you could just get one solid Wing Off the Bench I think you’re pretty much good to go and I don’t think there’s like a

Whole lot to really discuss with them next up we have the Nets they’re going the Deonte route for the Nets Deonte TUS Jones or picks yeah I think if you were going to try to just improve the team that they’ve currently got with mcale and cam Johnson cam Thomas cled in the

Whole thing then okay you can look at the point guard spot there’s been some weird dwy stuff we did just have a rumor saying or not a rumor we had an update saying that we could see Ben Simmons again soon we’ve we’ve heard that a few

Times we hope the best for Ben but I do think there’s the other Avenue which is the Nets look to move like ad Dorian finy Smith potentially Royce O’Neal as well and just maximize the assets they have but of course with this Nets team is that they don’t have their picks

They’ve got other teams picks throughout the future here right so they do end up in this weird spot where most teams just don’t totally find themselves in I think going for like a tus Jones would be good if you want to just improve what you have but not make a drastic shakeup I

Don’t really think I would lean the Deonte route if I was the Nets and that’s mostly because I just think for the amount of assets that I think it would take to pull off a Deonte trade for the Nets I don’t think that makes them better enough to justify doing it

Now a counter to that could be yeah well it takes a little bit of ball handling pressure off mckel Bridges and stuff yeah I get it but I think you can accomplish that with a smaller trait even if Deonte would definitely be like the best player potentially available if

They were thinking that way and now we go to Charlotte and that is a picture of Jaylen green we might be looking at this one kind of crazy yeah Jaylen green kaminga I can’t imagine either one of those really happened I think with Charlotte we already saw with the Rosier

Move I mean you can see I’ve seen like some Nick Richards Buzz a little bit I’m just not going to entertain this I understand Jaylen Green’s had a weird season but we’re just I’m not going to go there for the Bulls we have a picture of Zack LaVine is Zack LaVine the dream

Acquisition for the Bulls cuz I think Bulls fans and apparently the Bulls organization would disagree at this point draft picks Malcolm Brogden or Kevin herder this is crazy man like Zack LaVine has no takers regarded as a distressed asset of play style injury history all that stuff you want to know

One thing with the bulls man beyond all of the what the hell they’re going to do at the deadline while anybody Tak Zack line like they’re taking more threes a lot of that you know Kobe White’s been cooking this year but one thing with these guys I I think if Vu was shooting

Like 37% from three instead of 27% maybe I’m just being too nice I feel like that would be like a pretty damn big deal be I don’t know the Bulls or the Bulls now we go to Cleveland and we what are we doing DeAndre Hunter does anybody have

DeAndre Hunter as their ideal pickup for their team DeAndre Hunter Royce O’Neal T.J McConnell you want DeAndre Hunter to take minutes from Sam Merill who’s shooting the three ball at a rate of like Steph Curry right now look man Cleveland doesn’t have Garland or Moy right now and they’re still killing

Everybody this Cav team been fun man I was watching their last one against the books there were so many possessions where aoro just had a great contest on Dame even blocked him a couple times and like step back three or a drive to the rim Dean Wade was kind of all over the

Place where like a lot in the second half he was on Brooke and it’s just like yeah this makes sense but Jared Allen on Giannis it was just it was good stuff man I don’t know I don’t think Cleveland’s gonna do anything crazy at the deadline and now for Dallas we have

Kozma Jeremy Grant and Dorian finny Smith of course I have already given my take on a kozma Dallas thing which is yes he would definitely help he would give them some more Rim pressure out of their non Luca and Kyrie guys and also not Derek Lively because he gives them

The lobs of course like kozma would help it’s just if the Wizards really want two firsts for it given how Dallas’s pick situation already is between the stuff they owe and like the immediate future and also at the tail end of this decade it’s just kind of tough to imagine it

Getting there now as far as their other names Jeremy Grant and finy Smith I mean I think Jeremy Grant’s a little more interesting you know he’s better defensively than kozma although as I say that I remember in the offseason I was like well I like kma’s contract more

Than grants cuz it’s cheaper or whatever the hell but by all accounts the Blazers do not want to move Jeremy Grant they want to hold on to him and have him be their adult in the room as scoot gets older and stuff like that right so I do

Think for Dallas it does feel like if they’re going to make a move it’s going to add another Wing player who you’re hoping make shots around Luca and Kyrie but obviously if that if that dude can play defense that’s great and we know finey Smith can defend now we go to the

Nuggets what Jan Tate Jan Tate Isaiah Jackson Dennis Smith Jr okay so specifically on Jan Tate which okay fine like that’s the type of guy that I think if you’re just looking for good bench player who will play really hard for the Nuggets that okay J Shan Tate’s

Definitely an option however I I do think on Houston he’s kind of in like a pretty decent role for himself right now where he’s averaging about 15 minutes a game or so where he can play really hard on defense he can keep the ball moving with his handle that’s like a little

Underrated if you just like never think about J Shante I guess like he’ll make some plays off the catch and stuff it’s just obviously he’s just not much of a shooter and so teams just don’t guard him like that as far as the Dennis Smith suggestion

For the Nuggets I do think that seeing Dennis Smith’s on ball defense which has been like legit really good since he uh had his like NBA return pretty much it would be fun to see that in a playoff match up but also you know teams are

Going to DARE him to make shots all right now we go to the Pistons and we were saying draft picks Gary Trent Jr or miles Bridges there is not a single fan base that wants their team to go for Bridges uh and we all know why as far as

Gary Trent I mean he’s at like 42% from three this year but they clearly want to add talent to the team but they can’t move a pick because they’re so bad that it’s just like it’s out of the question right so then at that point it’s a

Matter of which guys on your team are you willing to move and we we already saw a report the other day where it was like well the Bulls would really want bonovich and then like jayen ivy for LaVine with which the Pistons are saying no at the moment and so it’s like okay

So you’re not going to move picks understandable you don’t want to move any of your young guys also understandable at that point how the hell are you really going to add talent to this team Pistons just just keep your heads up guys now we go to the Warriors

Do they have them as a Deon team Deonte Clint capella and D rozan I have a tough time predicting that Deon is going to end up with the Warriors yeah trying to predict whatever the Warriors are going to do this deadline is pretty tough I feel like first off kinga’s just been

Insane lately I mean it’s the drives it’s the post-ups it’s the transition like I am not entertaining any sort of kaminga trade idea I think you just have to keep him at this point I could see a rationale for going for some sort of a change at the center spot I mean Looney

Jackson Davis is your Center rotation right now sarich plays with those guys a lot of the time he’s not he might be a center a little bit and Jackson Davis has had some promising games no doubt um but you know the idea there is well we

Draymond’s been back for a few games now maybe if we just get a different Center in here or just more sized up front in general that perhaps that could allow us to just get back to respectable defensively when I say back to it I mean from like years ago not this season or

Maybe it’s something just like some solid veteran three and D Guys Somewhere Wiggins has been a little better lately at the same time I wouldn’t be shocked if he was moved by the deadline you know there’s the Chris Paul contract stuff even though he was good with his just

Being Chris paulist even if the percentages were a little down but he’s hurt now of course now we go to Houston with Daniel Gafford Daniel Gafford Kelly oen or Buon yeah the Rockets have had a rough stretch while I do know that Rockets fans are arguing amongst

Themselves like crazy when it comes to Jaylen green and stuff realistically you’re just going to get a move on the margins backup big that sort of thing I can’t really imagine Kelly alen gets mov from the Jazz just because they’ve been rolling like they have lately but I

Guess if you want them you can make an offer and I mean Whitmore has been getting some buckets Off the Bench for them lately but if you wanted to add a shooter then sure that’s fine now we go to Indiana with Alex Caruso Caruso Delon Wright draft picks I do think that

Caruso and nard on the same team together would quietly or perhaps not that quietly it’d be like one of the better defensive guard tandems that you could put out there of course they wouldn’t B be starting nard has started some with halberton but I guess they have a larger conversation about Caruso

It seems like the Bulls just don’t want to move him like that man we all get it you know he’d be a fantastic perimeter Defender for anybody but as far as Indiana I mean if if the Pacers are going to make any sort of a trade man

Maybe just a buddy healed one just because we’ve heard those rumors before but they’re definitely not moving any more picks for something after the SE yakum trade now we get to the Clippers what another cheddy Osman team cheddy Osman auto porter Chris bue yeah trying to navigate exactly what picks are

Tradable still for the Clippers if any of them are are just kind of above what I am capable of from just looking at real gm.com Zack low did say that they would like to get like a tweener forward basically I’m just going to say this as far as the Clippers forward position

Whenever I’m watching a Clipper game and we all know they’ve been killing everybody lately whenever Amir coffe is out there he’s just doing the right thing whether it’s just standing in the corner and and shooting like one for two on his threes or just making the simple

Play just attacking off the catch and then making the next play somebody like the Box the box score numbers are not going crazy but he plays like 14 minutes a game and it’s just solid basketball the whole time and he he’s on the wing spot so but yeah I feel like the

Clippers if they can are going to end up with like Dorian finy Smith all right now we go to the Lakers we have Deonte once again so I already talked about the Deonte thing earlier with the Hawks I guess to add to that you know if there

If it really needs to be a third team for D who again has been playing really really well lately well then you got to do the scan of teams around the league who you think there’s some uncertainty about their long-term thing with the guard spot right the

Point guard specifically and so I mean you’re looking at like the Nets where the dwy stuff like I keep saying it’s just weird right now do I believe this Nets team would be like clamoring to get DLo back I don’t know I mean the magic have something with their guard spot

Look folz just came back he’s been playing a few games Cole Anthony’s been missing a lot of shots lately Anthony black we like him but he’s a defensive passing rookie right at the same time I just don’t think the magic are going to for D’Angelo Russell similar thing with

The Spurs where you know we love Tre Jones but also they could use some more juic at point guard I also don’t really think they’re going to want D but I do this all the time and then guys still get traded so I don’t know and for what

It’s worth I think since the Lakers went back to uh just putting more ball handling on the court at the same time with LeBron right I mean they’ve had Reeves and AD or Reeves and DLo excuse me playing together recently do think they’ve looked better now they do still

Have some weird moments where like they go from scripted offense where they’re running actual sets and you know extra screen plays and stuff to more just like let’s just kind of figure it out and that’s when they don’t look good and that happened a lot like in the second

Half of their Nets game recently now for the Grizzlies we have Quinton Grimes Quinton Grimes DeAndre Hunter draft picks Bleacher Report I don’t know if DeAndre Hunter is like the dream pickup that other teams should be going for like that uh Quinton Grimes I mean yeah

Like Quint and Grimes would be good I also think once again if the Knicks are going to trade Grimes they’re going to want like a clear upgrade at that spot look you want a Grizzlies take here you go they got another one in Vince Williams I mean the defense has been

Good he’s grabbing rebounds at a rate where you would think he was like at least four inches taller than he actually is it’s been some good dunker spot stuff he’s made some threes like he’s a player no doubt now we go to Miami you want to give IO to the heat IO

Nir little Chris bue yeah the thing here is like I think before the Rosier trade you would have put Rosier number one for Miami and so now at this point I think I would bet on Miami not making any moves at all for the rest of the deadline and

For the bucks look we all know what the Bucks need they just need they need one perimeter Defender uh thull would definitely fit into this thy Royce O’Neal Chris dun now as far as assets well the Bucks the one real asset they’ve got is the Blazers second round

Pick this year good second rounder I mean look obviously throw a parade if you’re the books if you can get thel for the Blazers sake it feels like it should require more just because of how good defensively thel is on top of the fact that he’s made some real strides with

His three ball but I don’t know I understand he averages Five Points a game so perhaps you can disagree there and I do see the case U should be said thel actually does have a no trade clause because of some restricted free agency when you resign with your team

Stuff I don’t know I mean they mentioned Chris Dunn it still it feels like the Jazz would rather keep Chris Dunn especially with just how good things have been going there lately I think dlon Wright is not an exciting name but that’s somebody who I think could help

Out the books all right now we get to the te- Wolves they’ve already got tus Jones on there and I guess they couldn’t find a picture of tus with towns or goar so he’s next to Wendell Mo shout out to Wendell tus Doug mcder and Monte Morris

Yeah I mean the biggest thing that the tea wolves need man is just some more of anything off the bench like if you want to go point guard specifically totally fine but just one other offensive option even just like a catch and shoot guy off

The bench like they could go for that I do know there’s been a lot of talk for me included about their offensive rating and I do believe it’s like 18th or 19th on the year if you want to look at specifically their starting five it’s like the top 10 offense of course you

Know every minute counts so I get it do I think they could really pry away the wizard starting point guard with the assets they have even given the situation of the the Wizards it’s kind of tough to see it because with the way they did the gobear trade they just

Can’t trade any of the picks that they do have in the future because they’re all surrounded by Steppy and Rule picks you know okay now for the Pelicans we have Jared Allen yeah Jared Allen Wendell and Daniel Gafford I kind of keep finding myself on the same side of this like should the

Pelicans change their Center position you know go for like a a better defensive Center and all that well first off let’s say there’s no way Jared getting traded with how good Cleveland has been recently and how good he’s been and also just looking at the other names

There quietly Wendell has been kind of cooking on offense for his last like five games and while I do understand that he missed a whole lot of time and Goa was good in place of him and all that I don’t think the magic are going to move on from Wendell that fast my

Stance is always balunis is good man and so like yes he’s obviously a better offensive player than he is defensive one and of course I’ve seen the lineup numbers with Larry Nance in the game and how they’re better defensively with him and with Val they’re better offensively

Some of that dictated by the guys who play around them obviously but you could be doing a lot worse than valunas as you’re starting five now for the Knicks we have Jordan Clarkson Bruce Brown and Malcolm Brogden okay so here’s my thing about the Jordan Clarkson Nicks stuff

Both teams are trying to Swindle each other where Danny a is saying I’m only doing this if I get Quinton Grimes and a first rounder that probably has some protections on it but like whatever and obviously the Foria contract to throw it in and similar to me the Knicks are like

Well we like Quinton Grimes he was better last last year but we still like him he can occasionally I mean he just had like a 19point game for us our team makes way more sense after the OG trade Grimes is still a defensive player of course he’s better than Clarkson on

Defense and if we hold on to him he could be an asset in a larger trade somewhere down the road of course the one counter to everything I just said is yeah but Clarkson gets buckets honestly I feel like it would be better for the Knicks to just add a score without

Trading any of their actual guys which is clearly possible because Miami just did it as for the Jazz I mean things are going really well in Utah right now and Keon has still been able to get minutes so I don’t know if there’s like as much of a necessity to move Clarkson

Especially with his good contract after the season uh but you know if somebody gives you a real offer then you got to entertain it of course now we get to OKC and Kelly oen Royce O’Neal Gordon Hayward okay so once again Utah go things going very well don’t know if

They want to shake anything up I do think Olen I mean listen he would allow the Thunder to maintain their spacing and he would obviously give him another big guy now sure o l is not the PowerHouse big I mean yes the one thing that OKC needs to address at some point

Is their defensive rebounding but that weakness is also kind of a trade-off for their strengths right which is the floor is really spaced out they’ve got athletes everywhere I mean they’re towards the top of the league and like deflections and Steals and all that but sure having just I don’t know a 69

Forward who can play some minutes next to chit should just give you a little more beef on the boards when you need it occasionally that could be cool now we go to Orlando we got Anthony Simons Simons Grimes and Brogden yeah I can’t really foresee the Blazers moving in for

Any Simons but the general idea of the magic needing some shooting at the guard spot and folz has managed to actually play some games for him recently because he was out for a while and I mean you know folz has value but obviously he’s not a three-point shooter of course

Suggs has been better from three this year Cole Anthony is just going through like a weird just not making shots stretch right now but in the meantime like you want to have conversations about Buddy hee okay I think tus Jones could be like a solid option for him but

Of course if you’re like you don’t really want to be moving draft picks all right now we get to Philly they got Dorian Smith on here Dorian Smith bogdon Alex Caruso yeah I mean any of these three dudes would help out Philly you know there there’s been like a little

Bit of dejonte Philly stuff lately there’s also been some push back on that initial stuff and all that happened about a week ago if you really want to dive into it just on Google I mean I’ve done my dejonte sixer stuff before you know he would definitely give him

Another good offensive player somebody who could take pressure off of Maxi embiid also you’re worried about where the defense is at because it just wasn’t as good in Atlanta you’re worried if the three-pointer holds up but once again definitely another talented offensive player that Philly could use they got

The expiring they got the trade the picks from the Harden trade besides that if you want to go for more typical three and D guy or whatever Alex cuso yeah they would definitely help Philly no doubt about it now we get to Phoenix we’ve got what Chris Dunn Alec Burks and Andre

Drummond the Suns have been on a roll lately and I would like to do a video about them soon I have not been in the camp of they need a point guard mostly because I just think they have the talent to get the offense clicking and lately it has been

And there was a report saying they did want an athletic Wing which I would agree with more to just give them some more like Rim attempts and just more size in general I think is is a good way to look at it right now we get to the

Blazers it it does seem like Jeremy Grant is not on the move it does like I mean I said this earlier like it does feel like the Blazer just want to hold on to Grant to just have that solid forward for however long this iteration of the

Team is going which I mean look you know Aiden and Grant are under contract for a number of years now I think Brogden is a much safer bet to be moving but anyway draft picks kaminga jarus Walker yeah kaminga has been playing way too well

For the Warriors to move him and I don’t think the Pacers are going to move jarus Walker the one thing that should be said with this Blazers team and I just have to sort of eat crow on this one like DeAndre Aton has been fine but he’s been

Fine he’s averaging 12 points a game and as I say he’s been fine like Aon Aon has maybe been like a bit underrated defensively this here offensively like yeah it’s normal DeAndre and stuff it’s you know could you roll harder to the rim could you please not shoot that fade

Away or hook shot but like Aiden’s been fine now we get to sack toown kusma Jeremy Grant and Buon I do think Jeremy Grant would be like the ideal pickup but like I just said with the Blazers it kind of doesn’t seem like they’re looking to offload Grant like that kozma

I mean I’ve already talked about the kozma thing when I did my trade rumors video recently with the Kings it’s similar to the Dallas one kozma would help definitely give him more production than Harrison Barnes has been although Barnes just had a crazy game recently in fact he had two straight 30o games

Recently and then before that he had a bunch of games where he didn’t score 10 points so it’s like I don’t know maybe we just hit the turning point with Harrison Barnes this season but it’s like again kozma he would help I don’t think he’s the perfect answer and also

The Kings already have protected picks going out to the Hawks from The Herder trade so any sort of pix based thing is tougher to imagine for them and it just doesn’t feel like it really gets there all right now we get to the Spurs Draft picks Deonte killi and Hayes

You want to put killi and Hayes on the Spurs huh the Twitter replies if that ends up happening would go crazy yeah look we all get it the Spurs need a point guard we like Trey Jones Okay fully realized version of the San Antonio team is with a guard who is a

Real scoring threat like that you know pull up jumpers off of screens Twan game with wemi the whole thing it’s going to have to happen at some point does it seem like it’s really G to have happen by this dread deadline I know there was some dejon Spurs news but it seems like

It died about as quickly as it popped up for a second you know now as far as how they acquired that guy obviously you think about the draft for these guys but if it was ever going to be a trade for a point guard I do think the Spurs would

Be content with putting Kellin Johnson in a trade like that Kell’s good his contract is descending all that I don’t know if how other teams view Kellon and how the Spurs would view him going out in a trade totally align then at that point other teams would ask for more

Picks and I mean that’s probably a tough sell for San Antonio look I don’t think the Spurs are going to do anything crazy in the next like week and a half but this is a conversation for you know this offseason or potentially next trade deadline you know that sort of stuff now

We go to Toronto draft picks bleach report The Bleacher Report just keeps on putting kaminga in moves or ideal trade Target guy whatever again I with how good kaminga has been I just cannot see any world in which he’s moving uh Patrick Williams okay fine yeah I feel

Like the Raptors are just going to go into get assets mode pretty much Gary Trent Bruce Brown and if they can walk away with like some young player who hasn’t totally worked out on another team and okay fine you know I think um like Aaron nemith with the Pacers is

Probably the recent example at least that I can think of of this like really hitting for somebody you know with him being in the brogen trade and he didn’t get much playing time in the Celtics right so if you can find your own version of that and then finally the

Wizards uh you know what man as long as you’re keeping coola Bali you can do whatever else you want just go for it

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