Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[omahen]

So they hope Young is good, but not that good.

There are already rumors that Washington might just shut down Young for this season. 

I agree Utah is playing with fire. They want to build around Markanen (at least these are the messages around) after next season, but that will be very difficult if they lose the pick this year. So far they didn't have any luck from getting a top end talent from their years of tanking. Ainge is also doing a very bad job by overvaluing his role players and then losing them for almost nothing (they got 1 SRP for Collins), nothing (Clarkson) or even paying (Sexton + SRP for Nurkic). A prime example of how keeping a strong negotiating position is in no way a guarantee that leads to best end result.