Don’t know what may be available this summer. AB is partially guaranteed($2mil) that’s a chip.
JV is cool. I don’t mind keeping him. But if not he’s cheaper and easier to move. Miles and Wright can all be throw ins with Parsons.
Jalen Brown FA will be coming up.
The Lakers young guys will be FA shortly or we can be a 3rd team in on a deal and absorb some money later.
The Raptors trade is about clearing cap space. Jonas is a serviceable center. I could see the team trying to resign him. Miles is salary filler. Wright is supposed to be the prize. I have seen outlets over the last two years say he is ready to be a starting PG, but I haven't seen enough of him to say one way or the other. The stats are not overwhelming.
I have no clue what the Clippers trade is about, except, maybe, carrying over an asset into next season as a trade chip and getting more room under the tax. Bradley is straight trash. If you think otherwise, you are reminiscing about his glory years and haven't watched him the last three.
temple shot better than miles from deep this year they are kinda the same player imo .
You should be excited by what you saw on Tuesday because now we can realistically start playing like that consistently.
With the added bonus of not seeing Mack anymore.
I think they are still in win now mode due to other teams flipping the switch to tank mode. NO, Dallas, LAC, and Washington all traded away good players in an effort to loose games. If we couldn’t get good future value, might as well go all in on conveying that pick.
I mistakenly took someone's word that they were expiring contracts. They are player options. So they aren't even cap clearing. Miles is definitely taking his option. Jonas may or may not. He probably won't get that much per year again, but he would definitely get more over the life of his next contract.
Clips spanked us. I don’t understand that one.
I am pretty happy with the trades. It is much better than to be locked up with a full crap like Knight, Chriss, MKG, Biyombo while hoping we won`t pick Adams, Wroten, Henry, Martin etc. We are now faster, younger and happier! Let`s start a new "run-n-gun" era!
Has anyone see how cool was the squad Conley-Holiday-Washburn-Junior-Ivan in the latest game? Now I can only imagine what happens when Bradley, Wright, Miles join them. We have never ever have such a crazy backcourt. My expectations are high! And I find them reasonable.
The way some of you are talking, you'd think this team wasn't 11 games under .500 and that they weren't barely .500 the previous two seasons.
After we parted ways with Zach, Marc became the clear number 2 and Jamychal was the number 3. They got undeniably much worse. This year, we've seen some of the worst basketball in the past 10 years watching that frontcourt + Mack.
I would have liked to have more shooting, but when you're this bad, what are you losing exactly by shaking things up? I keep hearing people talk about first rounders. How often do the Grizzlies hit on first rounders? You know how relevant first rounders are? We just got back a guy drafted in the first round just a couple of years ago and most people are like who the heck is that? Plus Marc is slow and doesn't fit what alot of teams want to do. I imagine our takers were limited.
I think Bradley could redeem himself as a Grizz (he was Tony Allen with better offense in Boston) and I don't think Jonas is some massive downgrade from Marc. He's actually alot tougher too. So let's see what happens.
Time to feature J13!! He is by far the undisputed 1A option now. And NOBODY is going to be able to dispute that.
Mike won’t have to let Gasol touch the ball evertime down the floor now. Just do your thing Mike.
Watching the game with Minnesota, I saw Mike enjoying having all third line FREE for use, playing with the bigs who are running up and down fast creating space and threatening to go to the rim, not just staying on the third line like a boss. I am happy I will see it more often.
after reading how Jonas V was so excited to go to shootaround today WITH TORONTO and was looking forward to the trade deadline passing with him staying in TOR, I fear that JV is going to be extremely disappointed in coming to MEM.
Positives: Shelvin Mack will never play another game for the grizzlies. I think that's a win in my books. I've always liked JV, and I do want to throw it out there that he is averaging 24 points and 14 rebounds per 36. Not too shabby. Delon Wright was very effective last year off the bench. Will he do better in an increased role? That remains to be seen. He's better than Mack regardless. CJ Miles is whatever at this point. Avery Bradley needed a change of scenery, as he was someone that I wanted in free agency this year.
The biggest positive of all: the grizzlies did not trade Mike Conley.