01-18-2025, 01:20 PM
(01-18-2025, 11:49 AM)mvossman Wrote: So what trade are you proposing for him? We have to send out at least three players. Can Utah handle taking on 3 for 1? Regardless of whether Collins is a fit, his large salary makes it difficult to construct a viable trade.
As I wrote in my initial post I don’t have a concrete trade in mind, I was just interested in what you guys are thinking from a pure basketball perspective if we‘d change Gafford and Kleber to Collins and merge their roles into one versatile 30 minute player aka a second PJ. Or if there‘s other guys that could fit that bill and also won’t cost the world.
As for this concrete example it would at least have to be a three way deal with a competitive team that could really use a starting center like Gafford - that’s not Utah, they try to lose and have Kessler.
Let‘s for example go for the Magic after Moe Wagner‘s season ending injury - they’d trade Wagners‘s contract, another bigger salary and one or two assets to the Jazz and receive Gafford and Kleber for their playoff run and veteran leadership, Utah receives Powell from us, Wagner‘s expiring contract and the assets from the Magic and trades Collins to us. We sign a street free agent who gives us more than Kleber and Powell. If we can’t afford one we‘d have to make Morris a coach and sign someone serviceable for his salary.