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

[SleepingHero]

Browsing Hawks reddit and someone posted this graphic in a discussion about Gafford.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AtlantaHawks/co...urce=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Gafford is a great player. So good that I'd rather keep him and Lively and just move AD. ATL doesn't really have the ammo for Gafford unless they want to throw in that NOP pick plus Asa.

[Mavs2021]

[Rich Paul] says the Lakers should trade Austin Reaves for Jaren Jackson Jr.  (video in link)

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1q...de_austin/

He´s Bron´s childhood friend, right? I had never seen him or heard him talk, until I saw him on a Kellerman YT short. Seemed as likeable and bright as Nico.

[F Gump]

That's a theoretical trade from an Instagram story, Stein said no real offer was made, but they had been talking. I'm sure it was going to come closer to deadline day.

Looking at the trade particulars, maybe it was something RP liked, but it doesn't really work to satisfy what either team needed. It makes ATL pay tax (a non-starter) and forces DAL to waive multiple players before doing the trade (another deal-killer).

[mvossman]

Gafford is a great player. So good that I'd rather keep him and Lively and just move AD. ATL doesn't really have the ammo for Gafford unless they want to throw in that NOP pick plus Asa.

Gafford has been a fish out of water without an elite PG.  He has been terrible this season.  I'm sure some of it has been dealing with injury, but he is not worth near that package.  I don't think there is any chance they move AD either, unless its a Trae Young like deal.  I don't think it makes sense to keep all three even with the massive injury concerns and Gafford is the only reasonable option right now.

[FireNicoHarrison]

Rich Paul on the Pros and Cons of the Mavericks after Anthony Davis gets injured during trade talks ?

“I do think when you have that trade speculation out there you have to make your mind up because sometimes when you play in traffic you get hit by a car. If you plan on trading somebody, there’s a time. It’s almost a gamesmanship to it. Your trying to go a little longer, a little longer and see the most you can get out of somebody. When you do that you run a risk — There is a world you come out of this draft with a great pick, that the following year and saying ‘wait a minute, we got these two young guys on rookie contracts that are good, you have Kyrie and AD, two top 15 players… it’s not totally negative”

(Via Game Over podcast)

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