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Tom Thibodeau DESPERATELY Wants This Trade…



Tom Thibodeau DESPERATELY Wants This Trade…

Tom Tibido loves the idea of the New York Knicks acquiring Bruce Brown and we’re going to break this situation down as the trade deadline is in a few days from now so what’s up guys welcome back to Nick’s digest it’s Chris here and we’re going to jump right into the video

As we always do because Tom Tibido does want Bruce Brown from the Toronto Raptors now this is an update that’s mainly on the Los Angeles Lakers so we’ll let Lakers digest handle that but Bruce Brown was mentioned as a top trade Target for the Lakers and the Knicks and other contenders also

Want Bruce Brown now tibs is a big fan of him he is a tibs guy if you look at Josh Hart you could see how much tibs loves him Bruce Brown is remarkably similar to Josh Hart they play very similar Styles they can really be anything from the two to the

Four and they’re kind of a jack of all trades master of non glue guy type player and that’s great and I think that Bruce Brown is going to get traded and help A team out a lot but I don’t think that’s going to be the Knicks and I

Think most of us are going to be in agreeance here that it’s probably not going to be the New York Knicks who are going for Bruce Brown and the reason for that is fairly simple as more than anything does he really fit this team at

All like if we look at Bruce Brown we see a guy who’s kind of a tweener between three positions in a way I would mainly call him a wing over anything else though he is similar to Josh Hart in the way that it’s not a specific

Position and as Steve cerr put it he’s a winner and Bruce Brown is certainly a winner he has a winning record on his career I believe it’s around 210 and 180 is his career record something like that and if you look at Brown you could see

That he’s going to be helpful to any team that he goes to he’s been good with the Raptors and he’s just straight up good at basketball now if you look here at Bruce Brown’s numbers he’s putting up 12 points per game with five rebounds and three assists this season he’s

Shooting 47% from the field and 33% from Deep that’s great don’t get me wrong minus the shooting which obviously is it’s not like Terrible by any means but it’s not something that you really want to like have if you’re looking at a player who’s going to join a team that

Could use more shooting such as the Lakers if it’s the Knicks it doesn’t really matter the Knicks have enough shooting as it is but they also have enough of that type of player as it is in Josh har now I know you can never have too many winners on a basketball

Team but it just it feels like complete overlap in a way where then we’re going to look at a Nick’s lineup in the playoffs when it get shrink down to really an eight-man rotation with Duce playing I don’t know five to six minutes a game in the playoffs um that’s going

To be probably one of hartenstein or Mitch Off the Bench assuming Mitch does come back and then Josh Hart and Bruce Brown who are basically the same player so if you look at it you’re just going to see a lot of redundancy on the Knicks court and not that much Shack creation

And shooting off the Knicks bench and that is something that I think they’re in biggest need of look the Knicks are a great team this is going to most likely come out before the Lakers game and because of that we can still say they’re on a win streak who knows if they beat

The Lakers if you’re watching it after you do but I have no idea it hasn’t happened yet hopefully they did I’m going to guess that they did because the Knicks don’t lose anymore but really we’re looking at Bruce Brown and every sign points to let him go to a different

Team now there is an interesting side of this that we have to talk about because it is very important from the moment Bruce Brown ended up in Toronto there’s been an expectation that the Raptors would flip him quickly in another trade this is just about Bruce Brown wanting

To go to the Knicks essentially as he then says when asked about it and how he would fit with the Knicks he said I’m a dog I play extremely hard on both ends of the floor I can do just about whatever Tom Tibido needs me to do I

Play extremely hard I would think I’m the type of player that he likes so obviously Bruce Brown just went out there and marketed to essentially say hey can the Knicks trade for me like they traded for OG I would love to go there I and he also in another comment

Did mention that he loves New York that he played here with the Nets and going into New York he didn’t really like it then he lived there for two years and played professional basketball there and his tune changed and he said he loves every time he gets to go to New York so

I’m pretty sure Bruce Brown just straight up wants to be a Nick and if you look at the Knicks this is kind of new to us but now we’re in a position where a lot of players if you just randomly ask them if you could pick

Anywhere to play where would you want to play assuming they’re not like very tied to their team like someone like Giannis who just loves the box or someone like yic who doesn’t love the spotlight so guys who are usually homegrown more often than not or even RJ Barrett if you

Asked him if he’d rather be on the Raptors than Nicks he’d probably say Toronto but a lot of guys are going to say the Nick because if you look at them they’re good they’re winning they’re having fun they have a very respected NBA coach out there they’re playing a

Team style of basketball Jaylen brunson’s there and it’s just such a perfect team right now they’re such a not only are they an upand Comer they’re also a legit Contender this season because this team is just that good so players especially role players are going to want to join the Knicks and

Think I could win here I could make myself look really good here and stick around and be remembered well and also get to live in the greatest City on the planet and on top of that maybe some team will see me because I’ll be in New

York I’ll be in the media capital of the world and maybe they’ll want to trade for me or a team will want to sign me and I could get a big contract the way that Bruce Brown played for the nuggets and then ends up getting a massive contract because people started to

Acknowledge how much he did for that team as their Sixth Man when they won the NBA finals and Bruce Brown was a massive part of that team he played the most minutes off the bench for them throughout the playoffs he was ex excellent Defender great player overall

Good team first guy obviously tibs want some and Bruce Brown is right he’s definitely someone who tibs would be a fan of but at the end of the day they have Josh Hart they don’t need to do this again when there’s guys who fit better such as Jordan Clarkson or

Malcolm Brogden there’s other guys out there who would just make more sense for the Knicks to trade for especially some sort of guard or at least a player sized of a guard like the way that Bruce round is if the Knicks are going to trade for

Someone who is going to be playing some minutes with Randall being out for the next month and potentially longer depending on how that shoulder heals I’d rather it be someone with size I don’t think I’m in the minority when I say that because we already have Josh

Hart who’s 6’4 and does all the things that Bruce Brown does there’s no purpose in getting a second one of him if you’re going to get someone who’s not a shot creating guard go out there and get an act sized power forward it would just make sense to add to the roster for

Potential matchups and very specific situations Also let’s talk about WJ because W has been saying a lot that the Knicks could make a few moves here and something very very interesting to me is the fact that W just consistently said that they’re going to trade for a star

And one of the big appeals to the Knicks training for Bruce Brown is they could use that contract that his option date is June 29th and they could use that’s the same day the free agency starts by the way and they could use that contract to for

A star player this summer because W has been very adamant that the Knicks are going to be trading for a star in the very near future so let’s just break that down very quickly because if you just are to take a look here WJ is CA

This is like the fourth time that he said they’re going to pursue a pursue a star this off season is worth something that he’s basically been saying it’s inevitable and New York must have a super strong confidence based on back channels that someone who they want is

CA and will ask out and this is a quote tweet that’s initially just saying that wge are is or the W is essentially breaking down that the Knicks are targeting scoring Health off Off the Bench like Jordan Clarkson Alec Burks and Bruce brown brown obviously on the

List and Alec bur’s contract ends first of all it’s smaller it’s only $10 million per because that’s the one the Nick signed him to a few years back but it’s also just a smaller deal so you can’t use it to trade for a star unlike the Bruce Brown money that you

Absolutely can because it’s it’s in the low 20s which is basically exactly where the Knicks wanted it to be we already saw Bruce Brown be that player in the Pascal cakam trade so we know that it’s a possibility and the Knicks can use him he’ll have value he’ll probably get

Traded to a team that’s in a situation like the Raptors who are kind of starting a rebuild and then they’ll they’ll just the next team will just flip him again and get picks out of them or something the same way that the Raptor are going to do with Bruce Brown

Now maybe they’ll get picks from the Knicks maybe it’ll be from the Lakers maybe it’ll be from a completely different team that’s wanted Bruce Brown because I’m going to guess that most teams that are trying to win at all would want Bruce Brown on their team after

All so that I think is the biggest appeal to Bruce Brown definitely in my mind and if we just continue to talk about W for a second as James Ryder mentions he feels like it’s going to be Donovan Mitchell but Booker is the only other guy who fits his position he works

James Ryder works for let’s talk Nicks who I also do some stuff with so shout out to let’s talk Nicks and also WJ is saying that the New York Knicks will trade at a specific time for a star he’s not saying if he’s not saying anything but will which means that he’s pretty

Confident that the Knicks might trade for a star and that is the biggest appeal to Bruce Brown because if you know the Knicks are going for a star this summer then it would make some sense to use Brown’s contract the problem for me is I think you could do

The same thing with Malcolm Brogden because we already saw Brogden in a deal for a star player in Drew holiday so I’m pretty sure that that doesn’t that we could just do the same thing with Malcolm Brockton who is a remarkably similarly valued contract to Bruce Brown

And then you can sort of just call it a day and do the same thing and have a player who fits on the roster better and you can also probably do that with Jordan Clarkson so I just don’t fully see the appeal to Bruce Brown for the

New York Knicks I think more teams will want him more and that’s really I think what makes the most sense for the Knicks now is to go for shot creation over what Bruce Brown brings to the table which is basically a little bit of everything but the Knicks have very specific need

Comment down below if you disagree comment down below if you want Bruce Brown if you don’t want Bruce Brown let me know who you wanted the deadline we’re going to make a few of these videos for a few guys such as Jordan Clarkson and C oen who the Knicks have

Intrigued or have been intrigued by we’ll probably get another broad one out there at some point the trade deadline’s coming up make sure to subscribe to ni dig so you don’t miss anything I’ll catch youall on the next one have a great day and go ni

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20 Comments

  1. No…I want Bojan Bogdanovic of Detroit as we need offense with OG and JR out. Bojan brings 19 per as a 6'8" wing

  2. We don’t care what Tom wants he’s outta here in a year or so keep talking about these bum players

  3. One of the best front offices in the NBA… let’s be real. We need to start throwing respect on work this office has done since taking over. Anything they do, I TRUST. That’s the new reality

  4. No. We don't need these guys! Keep the picks! Don't jeopardize the future! Its bright with 8 first round draft picks! Don't gamble with the future! These guys want to come here because we're winning. Let them stay where they are. A lot of these guys just want a free ride!!! No scrubs on this team!!!

  5. You had dinner with tom with week huh.. What you order when he expressed to you his desperation sir 😴

  6. I think a good player for the Knicks to trade for in the future Kyle kuzma he has a good friendly contract and is smart player. And not Iso heavy player. Four Bruce Brown I would only give up Founier. Definitely no Grimes maybe some second rounders

  7. That star os most likely embid or Zion like seriously booker,giannis,luka is not thst desprste to leace thuer team

  8. Hands down I'd pick up Sasser and ausur Thompson from Detroit. You'd get a young scoring guard in Sasser and and a rugid sf/pf in Thompson. Thompson is very gritty and he plays d and rebounds. Both these players are super young I'd do this deal in a sec , both these players are super young and talented. I'd flip grimes for these two four sure.

  9. What we really need is Bogdanovich from Detroit but he’s too expensive right now if we trade for Bruce Brown it better be a really good deal that we’re getting because you’re right we can use his contract not to mention you never know who could get injured before the playoffs are in the playoffs and we might need him. He has playoff experience, that could come in handy

  10. Bruce Brown is Josh Hart. He is a worst rebounder but a better shooter. Thibs likes strong, shooting defenders

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