04-08-2021, 05:30 PM
For example in this article today: https://www.inquisitr.com/6487050/nba-ru...ingis-in-2 suggests "In order to convince them to send the Latvian center to Golden State, the Warriors would likely need to give up a trade package that includes James Wiseman and the Minnesota Timberwolves' 2021 first-round pick." which sounds about right to me and is a fair trade.
I wouldn't do that until after the lottery where we know the pick conveys to GSW (which happens early anyway). Wiseman is sort of a wildcard to me, I don't know how the MBT evaluates him. The high pick would be really good and sort of balance out concerns around Wiseman. I also don't know how the Mavs evaluate Wiggins. I would no longer say Wiggins is a bad contract in that he puts up good production and his deal only has two years left. It's possible that the trade would get expanded to a third team for some of the pieces.
If Wiggins did go to the Mavs you would probably start him in the spot currently occupied by J Rich. Wiggins is a much better and more consistent scorer.
Lineup would be: Luka, Wiggins, DFS, Maxi, Wiseman, with a resigned THJ + Brunson as your key reserves + the player that's drafted with Minney's pick.
So at least with this lineup you have lots of shooting (Wiggins, THJ, Maxi, Brunson all being 40% shooters amazingly enough).
For that Minney pick you would want a playmaking guard ideally that rounds out your top 8 rotation. Wiseman is still a "prospect" but I think Luka would maximize his usefulness by using him a lot in PnR.
In terms of salary the only big long-term salary outside of Luka would be THJ at probably 18 mil a year (maybe declining year over year). I personally think this would be a good team altho I would look at other team trade options as well.
I wouldn't do that until after the lottery where we know the pick conveys to GSW (which happens early anyway). Wiseman is sort of a wildcard to me, I don't know how the MBT evaluates him. The high pick would be really good and sort of balance out concerns around Wiseman. I also don't know how the Mavs evaluate Wiggins. I would no longer say Wiggins is a bad contract in that he puts up good production and his deal only has two years left. It's possible that the trade would get expanded to a third team for some of the pieces.
If Wiggins did go to the Mavs you would probably start him in the spot currently occupied by J Rich. Wiggins is a much better and more consistent scorer.
Lineup would be: Luka, Wiggins, DFS, Maxi, Wiseman, with a resigned THJ + Brunson as your key reserves + the player that's drafted with Minney's pick.
So at least with this lineup you have lots of shooting (Wiggins, THJ, Maxi, Brunson all being 40% shooters amazingly enough).
For that Minney pick you would want a playmaking guard ideally that rounds out your top 8 rotation. Wiseman is still a "prospect" but I think Luka would maximize his usefulness by using him a lot in PnR.
In terms of salary the only big long-term salary outside of Luka would be THJ at probably 18 mil a year (maybe declining year over year). I personally think this would be a good team altho I would look at other team trade options as well.