Is Brad ready to trade for Joker?

[SparzWizard]

Kinda given that he'll want out with no real leadership and unable to win again in Denver.

He is best buddies with Luka so there's that too...yuck.

If I was Brad I'd start the phone conversation with Jaylen Brown, Kristaps, and some picks and work from there. Take back a salary if we need to. Sign some ring-chasing vets. Win championship. Boom. Chisholm would love it.

[ozgod]

I hope Brad is putting something together. Joker and Tatum would be Monsters together....

Can we better then just making up this story that Jokic wants to be traded like lakers fans are? Read what I wrote in the nba thread

Jokic strikes me as a chill guy who is happy being a one-team player. It's almost like he treats his NBA career as something that he has to do to make money, but his real passion is his horses. He just happens to be very good at basketball but I feel that if he had to walk away tomorrow he wouldn't lose much sleep over it. He definitely doesn't strike me as a ring chaser like KD who has to jump to the best team just because his is imploding around him.

I don't know either of them from Adam, but I feel like Luca was kind of the same, we all know he didn't want to be traded. He would rather have stayed in Dallas to have a team built around him than to jump to greener pastures like LeBum and KD.

[celticsclay]

Kinda given that he'll want out with no real leadership and unable to win again in Denver.

He is best buddies with Luka so there's that too...yuck.

If I was Brad I'd start the phone conversation with Jaylen Brown, Kristaps, and some picks and work from there. Take back a salary if we need to. Sign some ring-chasing vets. Win championship. Boom. Chisholm would love it.

He was previously asked about joining Luka in Dallas and said Luka could come to Denver if he wanted. You probably didn?t follow that because you are too busy gassing up the lakers

[Birdman]

Denver not trading Joker unless he ask for it?

[jambr380]

It would never happen, but Jokic makes more than Jaylen next year, so we would need to send out enough salary to also get under the 2nd apron if we did make a deal. That makes it a lot more difficult.

With Jaylen looking like a shell of his former self, it's probably not the best time to use him in a theoretical trade for the best player on the planet. More likely to be Tatum than Jaylen if we are being honest

[wdleehi]

Do the cap rules even allow the Celtics to trade for Joker?   



But be honest, if Denver trades Joker, it is for tax relief, young potential and a whole lot of draft picks.   

[slamtheking]

It would never happen, but Jokic makes more than Jaylen next year, so we would need to send out enough salary to also get under the 2nd apron if we did make a deal. That makes it a lot more difficult.

With Jaylen looking like a shell of his former self, it's probably not the best time to use him in a theoretical trade for the best player on the planet. More likely to be Tatum than Jaylen if we are being honest

I could be wrong but I thought that because the C's were over the second apron they couldn't combine salaries in a deal so they wouldn't be able to combine Jaylen and another player to get Jokic.  They'd have to make a different trade to dump salary to get under the second apron and then I think they could trade Jaylen with someone at that point.  Having said that, the team would have to gut the top end of the roster to get Jokic.  would there be enough talent left on the roster to make it worth it at that point?  As we're seeing in Denver, as great as Jokic is, he still needs lots of talent around him to be a top title contender.

[jambr380]

It would never happen, but Jokic makes more than Jaylen next year, so we would need to send out enough salary to also get under the 2nd apron if we did make a deal. That makes it a lot more difficult.

With Jaylen looking like a shell of his former self, it's probably not the best time to use him in a theoretical trade for the best player on the planet. More likely to be Tatum than Jaylen if we are being honest

I could be wrong but I thought that because the C's were over the second apron they couldn't combine salaries in a deal so they wouldn't be able to combine Jaylen and another player to get Jokic.  They'd have to make a different trade to dump salary to get under the second apron and then I think they could trade Jaylen with someone at that point.  Having said that, the team would have to gut the top end of the roster to get Jokic.  would there be enough talent left on the roster to make it worth it at that point?  As we're seeing in Denver, as great as Jokic is, he still needs lots of talent around him to be a top title contender.

Teams over the 2nd Apron are allowed to combine players if the end result of the trade brings them below the 2nd Apron. So they could do that, but you'd have to find a home for Jrue or KP without really bringing back any salary. It would likely turn into like a 5 team trade to make the money work for all teams.

[Big333223]

Denver not trading Joker unless he ask for it?

I would think so. But if Jokic asks for it, the Celtics could put together a nice offer. Having Tatum and Jokic on the same team would be incredible.

[scaryjerry]

Why would Jokic want out of Denver exactly? 3 MVPs and a title and they just did exactly what he wanted and fire Michael Malone

[Vermont Green]

When you fire your coach, that is generally an indication that you think the coach is the problem, not the players, and certainly not your best player.  They will be hiring a new GM who I assume will choose the next coach.  He may also want to reconstitute the team some, but I doubt he blows it up.  Murray probably isn't going anywhere either.

It will be guys like Porter ($38.3M in 2025-26) or Gordon ($22.8M in 2025-26) if anything. 

[Who]

Nikola Jokic will become eligible to sign a three-year, $212 million contract extension with the Denver Nuggets this offseason.

Jokic has three seasons remaining on his contract with the 27-28 being a player option. Jokic can decline the 27-28 player option as part of his new extension.

On July 1, 2022, Jokic and the Nuggets agreed to a five-year, $276 million supermax contract extension.