Danny Ainge wants a star player and 3-4 first round picks in value in any package for Markkanen. This is more expensive than a lot of the other trades discussed here but Lauri is arguably one of the best fits next to Zion offensively in the league right now. If they want 4 1sts I’d still do it honestly. If the fit works out well enough and given good health they’d be late firsts anyways.
by Creative-Ad-5257
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No I know this is what Danny wants but it’s to high, Lauri has been great with Utah but I feel like most people forgot who he was in Chicago around other really good players on a team competing. I just don’t trust that he won’t regress somewhat not being the best guy on a bad team. That price is already more than I’m comfortable with so add in that he might be fools gold, it’s a no from me dawg
Ingram is a way better player than markkanen if Ingram was on jazz he would average close to 30 imo
I would be mad to do Ingram for mark 1v1. Let alone all those first rounders. Hell no
…Is he supposed to play C alongside Zion?
I love his game. He fits perfectly alongside Zion since he actually attacks the boards, shoots a barrage of 3s, and is an elite TS% guy. His finishing is exactly what we need for the space created by Zion. But the problem is that he plays SF/PF and is what we want Trey to develop into.
Playing Markkanen at the 5 has diminishing returns despite his height. He’s not a rim protector. He’s not physical enough for Jokic, AD, etc. And I don’t think he’s equipped to deal with Chet and Wemby. We’d still need to draft a center, and if we give away all our picks, we can’t draft a center.
The other problem with trading away Brandon is that Lauri isn’t nearly the passer and playmaker Ingram is. The Pelicans already have a problem not having a table setting point guard. This trade would make it worse. So as much as I would love Lauri in a vacuum, giving up BI and that many picks is a bad idea.
He’s not even better than Ingram lmao the picks too
The big point of trading Ingram was to put Trey Murphy in the lineup. If we trade him were getting a Guard or a Big (unlikely a big though no one worth it is available)
This may be the worst trade I’ve ever seen posted here.