Mrs Gertz brings her rabbit foot and we draw the golden ticket to the Zion Lottery. We pick up #6 from Dallas.
While Schlenk has been all for the process, he knows when it's time to get aggressive.
They get one of the most promising bigs in the league , 2 wings, one which they showed interest in earlier in the season, and a C prospect with #6. The could potentially flip those 2nds to get back into the 1st.Next yrs 1st wont be a lottery pick in my oppinion, but they would have another solid pick to help rebuild with.
Every Free Agent woul be seeking us out. No crazy sales pitch needed.
Leonard thinks long and hard about Toronto, and Atlanta but heads home to LA to unite with the Clippers.
KD sees how the team is currently set up along with a media market that's not so overpowering compared to New York. His music production aspirations also make Atlanta too hard to pass up.
WELCOME TO ATLANTA MR. DURANT!!!
I'm not trading all that for 1 year rental of AD in the hopes that KD joins.
That's too high a price if KD doesn't join and AD leaves for LAL.
That trade would definitely hinge on whether he would agree to sign an extension prior to deal.
Lol no way. Collins isn't going anywhere. If AD wants to come to ATL, let him sign in free agency.
Taking on a bunch of short max contracts while losing valuable draft picks is silly and Schlenk would never do it.
Finally, Zion alone makes us a ECF favorite.
Schlenk is building this team from the ground up! We have two young stars in JC and Trae! We have the opportunity to add two more young stars so I seriously doubt we mortgage the farm for expensive short term contracts!
No, the dream scenario is that we somehow get the 1st pick and take Zion, and then with the 6th-8th pick we take Bol Bol.
A lineup of Young, Huerter, Williamson, Collins, and Bol for the next 5 or so years would be incredible.
We'd be a rebounding force the likes maybe never seen before, plus defense, probably lead the league in assists, inside and outside scoring, 3's from anywhere on the floor, and youth that can run the floor for days.
Anybody else been watching Bol Bol? This kid is legit AF. Dude is 13/25 from 3pt and 56% scoring, in addition to 12 rb's and 3 blk's per 36mp.
Can you imagine Trae dishing to Collins AND Bol AND Zion?
Then Bembry, Prince, Spellman, Len, and Dedmon off the bench?
THAT is how you BUILD a team.
Not at the expense of John Collins. To give up JC and a top 10 lottery pick for a short term rental of AD and KD is a bad deal. Sure, it'll instantly vault us to championship contenders, but for how long?
We want to build a team like the Spurs and the Warriors did which will be contending for 5-10 years. Draft your foundation and add solid, inexpensive role players in free agency. If a free agent super star becomes available, kick the tires, but don't blow it up. That's what the Warriors and Spurs did. You don't gut your team and mortgage your future for short term gains.
Will be competing for championships for a decade or more and we'd have the bird rights to all of them because they were all drafted by us.
I know but the OP did.
Baze is an expiring player and it looked like they were looking to trade Prince away. If the Cavs get Barret, we might be able to see Clevelands 1st next year. For a player like AD you have to go for it. The only way he signs an extension is if we make a play for another superstar(insert Durant). TS has done a great job of evaluating talent and Pierce has done a nice job of developing the players. With that being said... AD and Durant are proven commodities. I love Collins, but he is a liability from defensive standpoint, especially when Zion pushes him from the 4 to the 5. We have a great offense, but our D will continue to stuggle until we A. Draft and develop lockdown defenders or B. Get it immediately with AD/KD and have contender window wide open for 6+ years. It wouldn't hurt us going one season without a 1st round pick. Tre would be the only defensive liability in the starting lineup, and everybody except huerter are 20pt + players.
A report from Sam Amick of The Athletic last month indicated that the Hawks intend to be aggressive in free agency this summer, pursuing meetings with “everyone from Kevin Durant on down.” However, head coach Lloyd Pierce and general manager Travis Schlenk tell Robby Kalland of Dime Magazine that the team has no plans to force the issue or spend its cap room irresponsibly.
Schlenk suggested that the Hawks will most likely target players who slip through the cracks and are available on shorter-term or team-friendly deals. A one- or two-year big-money contract – like what the Sixers did with J.J. Redick – could make sense for Atlanta, Kalland notes. Pierce believes the Hawks have taken the steps necessary to receive serious consideration from that sort of veteran free agent.
Although he’s not a long-term building block like Collins or Trae Young, Vince Carter has been an important part of this season’s Hawks team, according to Pierce, who tells Kalland that the 42-year-old swingman has created “a different atmosphere” in Atlanta’s locker room.
Have absolutely 0 interest in Bol right now. He has to check out medically for me and even then, there's huge questions about his defense...no for real. He might be a good shot blocker, but there are questions otherwise.
No hater here either, I wanted him earlier but now I do not.
Zion would play the 3 in between Huerter and Collins in our system. Actually, he'll play the 3 pretty much whereever he ends up. Not sure why some folks keep insisting he's a 4. He'll be a matchup nightmare at the 3 because of his size and quickness, and without being a defensive liability at all for the same reasons.
AD will not sign an extension for the simple fact he'll lose money on an extension vs signing a brand new deal at the new cap mumber in 2020.
"Despite Wojnarowski’s reporting, it’s highly unlikely Davis signs an extension anywhere, including his desired Los Angeles. Wojnarowski often conflates an extension with a new contract, but the mechanisms are significantly different.
Davis is set to become a free agent in 2020. Any extension would kick in for the 2020-21 season.
Within six months of getting traded, the largest extension Davis could sign is just one year, $28,447,669.
If he gets dealt then waits for that six-month period to expire, he could sign an extension worth up to $145,652,065 over four years. But because he’d have to wait, the team trading for him wouldn’t immediately get the security of locking him up longer-term. And Davis would already be out of New Orleans, so an extension would no longer be a tool to facilitate his exit. Which mostly defeats the point of an extension.
At the point six months after a trade, Davis could play out the final season of his contract and get far more money. Davis’ max in 2020 free agency projects to be about $205 million over five years. Even if he leaves his prior team in 2020 free agency, his max elsewhere projects to be about $152 million over four years – still more than he could get in an extension sooner."
AD will command a max contract and I have to issue with thst.
I agree but personally I’m happy with drafting our own superstars!!