Trade & FA 2024-25:

[KillerLeft]

I would love this offseason if we just kept it simple. I think they have the players to contend with just a simple tweak. Drafting Flagg doesn't stop me from getting PJ locked up on a 4/$90 deal where he can be a 30+ mpg DAWG, whether he starts 30 games or 80 games, doesn't matter.

Trading Gafford+ for a PG solves some roster construction issues for me. I think AD is better at the 5, especially in the playoffs when you need all 5 to space the floor. Nico and Kidd simply tell him things have changed with getting the #1 pick and he'll have to play more 5. Which won't be a big issue IMO with PJ being able to bang with most of the Bigs in this league.

I don't care who starts. It's either PJ or Lively off the bench, both of which will get plenty of minutes to impact the game. I can even see a world where Flagg is used as a point forward, like Naji, and Klay comes off the bench. Kidd will use so many lineup combinations during the regular season anyway, factor in missed games for AD and Lively, I just don't see a world where PJ can't get 30+ mpg and 40+ starts minimum. Replacing Gafford with a vet min like Kai Jones is more than sufficient for the regular season grind.

If you can trade Hardy for a bogus second rounder and bring back Exum in that salary slot, it'd be an A+ offseason for me.

Some trades that make sense.

Gafford for Lonzo Ball
Gafford for Coby White
Gafford + Hardy for Collin Sexton


(Ball/White/Sexton) | Exum | B. Williams
Klay | Christie
Flagg | Naji | Martin
AD | PJW | Omax
Lively | K. Jones | Powell

Kyrie - Out


When Kyrie is back a healthy rotation could look like:

Kyrie 32 | (Ball/White/Sexton) 16
Klay 22 | Christie 18 | (Ball/White/Sexton) 8
Flagg 28 | Naji 20
AD 14 | PJW 30 | Flagg 4
Lively 20 | AD 20 | Jones 8


Kyrie 32
Klay 22
Flagg 32
AD 34
Lively 20

(Ball/White/Sexton) 24
Christie 18
Naji 20
PJW 30
Jones 8

Lots of good stuff here.