2018-19 Transaction Thread

[DieHardYankee26]

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All I know is if they try to fix this somehow before Rich Kleiman brings KD to the Knicks, we're protesting outside the NBA HQ like Occupy Wallstreet.

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I hate even arguing anything LBJ related, because the focus is entirely on him and it turns into a pro and anti thing.

But OK, LBJ has a hidden stake off paper in Klutch. Maybe similar to certain players and their brothers and uncles who have become their "agents" right?....what advantage does this afford him exactly?

If those Uncles and Brothers were strong arming teams into trading other players, while said players were out there tweeting "get it done" and other stuff then I would agree.




Anyway, still looking but if this is true

The Raptors have offered Kyle Lowry and Jonas Valanciunas to the Grizzlies for Mike Conley and Marc Gasol, via @JakeLFischer.

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Lakers pull out of AD talks because of Pelicans' "outrageous" requests including 6-8 draft picks, per @BA_Turner

[The 24th Letter]

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All I know is if they try to fix this somehow before Rich Kleiman brings KD to the Knicks, we're protesting outside the NBA HQ like Occupy Wallstreet.

They still offering Rich "I'm going to run the Knicks one day" Kleiman that FO position if he pulls it off? lol

Also, I love that deal for the Raptors, but it doesn't do anything for the Grizz does it? Thought they were trying to save money.

[Vni]

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6 to 8 draft picks lol.

[DieHardYankee26]

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Mark Stein on KP:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyknicks/comments/anhpgh/_/

TL;DR: Knicks working this most of January, were talking to Mavericks about a THJ-Wesley Matthews swap so both teams knew their rosters, Mavs have been obsessed with KP for a few years, Janis "Must think his last name is Antetokounmpo to be talking this reckless" Porzingis gave the Knicks a list of 4 teams Porzginis would be willing to be traded to, Nets and Clippers were on the list, not the Mavs.

[jeremym480]

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Okaayyyyy, byyyyeeee

[areobee401]

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@JakeLFischer

“While Memphis has most seriously continued dialogue with Utah and Detroit on Mike Conley trade packages, the Raptors called Memphis offering Kyle Lowry and Jonas Valanciunas for Conley and Marc Gasol, per league sources. Lowry is aware of Toronto’s general trade discussions.”

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Mark Stein on KP:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyknicks/comments/anhpgh/_/

TL;DR: Knicks working this most of January, were talking to Mavericks about a THJ-Wesley Matthews swap so both teams knew their rosters, Mavs have been obsessed with KP for a few years, Janis "Must think his last name is Antetokounmpo to be talking this reckless" Porzingis gave the Knicks a list of 4 teams Porzginis would be willing to be traded to, Nets and Clippers were on the list, not the Mavs.

We both know one of them teams he wasn’t going to end up on, lol




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[3304Life]

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NO playing hardball is exactly what they should be doing, honestly. The franchise has had two top 10 players in its history and they should be looking for whatever they can to build a contender. The Lakers have gone into this with too much arrogance and thinking that they can get NO to bend just because they’re the Lakers.

The risk for NO is that Davis can just walk next year and they get nothing in return. I doubt they’ll care too much, they’ll just rank and hoard draft picks for a couple years and recycle. Their best hope is being terrible for a while anyway and picking well in the drafts because no free agents are looking to go to New Orleans so they have to do it organically.

With all that said, I don’t see AD being a Pelican at the start of next season, whether it’s a rental or he gets the move he wants.


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[Yeah...THAT Guy]

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@JakeLFischer

“While Memphis has most seriously continued dialogue with Utah and Detroit on Mike Conley trade packages, the Raptors called Memphis offering Kyle Lowry and Jonas Valanciunas for Conley and Marc Gasol, per league sources. Lowry is aware of Toronto’s general trade discussions.”

I can't imagine that Lowry and Valanciunas interest Memphis, but if Toronto adds some of their young pieces like Anunoby into the mix, I could see this having some sort of legs.

[jeremym480]

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Lakers pull their offer off the table. Lakers offer won't be as good this offseason, Yadda, yadda, yadda. With every negative rumor like this Ainge is one step closer to being able to pull Tatum out of the deal.

[ehh]

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Must-read on the Porzingis trade...

https://static.nytimes.com/email-content/MSB_10011.html

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The Mavericks’ interest in Porzingis has been an open secret to the Knicks for years. One Mavericks official not-so-jokingly estimated that Dallas approached the Knicks “about a hundred times” before the team ever showed any willingness to discuss parting with him.

The Knicks, for their part, have been expressing interest in Smith all season. The teams, according to two people with knowledge of their talks, also had been discussing a Hardaway-for-Matthews trade for weeks before Jan. 28, which both sides pinpoint as the first date the Knicks showed a willingness to expand the discussions into a Porzingis blockbuster.

The parties, as a result, did not need long to build a trade framework, knowing one another’s rosters and goals quite well.

It certainly didn’t hurt that the Mavericks made their lone Madison Square Garden appearance of the season two nights later. Knicks General Manager Scott Perry and his Mavericks counterpart, Donnie Nelson, met before the game in a Garden hallway before taking their huddle behind closed doors and summoning the Knicks’ president, Steve Mills.

By night’s end, Smith had registered a triple-double (13 points, 15 assists and 10 rebounds) in a resounding Dallas victory and the Mavericks were offering to seal the Porzingis deal by handshake, since the Dallas owner Mark Cuban was right there in the building. The Knicks, however, asked for more time.

The reason? Porzingis and his brother Janis, who serves as the player’s agent, had requested a Thursday morning meeting.

Did Porzingis really ask for a trade in that meeting?

When asked at a Monday news conference to address his reported desire to be traded, Porzingis passed.

”I would rather just focus on what’s ahead of me than looking back,” Porzingis said.

A person with knowledge of the meeting, however, said it was requested by the Porzingis brothers — after they had canceled a similar meeting earlier in January — and that it lasted less than five minutes. Later in the day, according to the person, Janis Porzingis provided the Knicks with a list of four teams he and Kristaps had deemed acceptable trade destinations.

The Nets and the Los Angeles Clippers were among those teams, but Dallas was not on the list. The Knicks, meanwhile, were told Porzingis was prepared to leave the team and continue his knee rehabilitation in Spain if he was not moved by this week’s league trade deadline.

It was not long after receiving the four-team list that the Knicks notified the Mavericks they were prepared to do the deal. The maverick nature of Cuban and Nelson prompted Dallas to accept the trade with no guarantees of a long-term commitment from Porzingis since they believe they can persuade the 7-foot-3 Latvian to commit to a future in North Texas.

Porzingis did say Monday that “there might be a time when I go into more detail” about the depths of his discontent as a Knick and the reasons that led him to push for his departure. The Knicks insisted they did not part angrily with their most popular player in years, but Porzingis’s recent Instagram posts asserting that “the truth will come out” and that “the city deserves better than that” suggest he is in a far different place.

[jeremym480]

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Porzingis did say Monday that “there might be a time when I go into more detail” about the depths of his discontent as a Knick and the reasons that led him to push for his departure.

Go on and spill that tea now, boo boo. Let Kyrie and KD know what's up.

[ojandpizza]

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I can't imagine that Lowry and Valanciunas interest Memphis, but if Toronto adds some of their young pieces like Anunoby into the mix, I could see this having some sort of legs.

The benefit for Memphis would be that JV might decline his option if he doesn't want to be there, while Gasol would have likely accepted his. If JV takes the money though, I don't see this as begin much more than just a lateral at best move but losing players that the fans love. Either way Memphis gets a bit closer to clearing off all it's cap space a year sooner, Conley has a longer deal than Lowry I believe.

I do think JV would actually get utilized in Memphis, and it would be interesting to see how he would look when he was actually getting lots of looks coming his way. He's had a few monster games the past couple of years for Toronto when they actually force him the ball. I like Marc, but his days of being a guy you can dump the ball to all game long have really diminished over the past couple of seasons. And he's a step too slow to work the pick and roll as effectively as he once did. Still has one of the smoothest shooting strokes in the league though on those fades.