Possible to land TWO top-10 picks? ( KG to Bulls, Reply #13)

[jay]

If the plan is to build around Rondo/Green.  Here is my idea:

1. KG to T-wolves for DWilliams + filler + swap Picks

2. Pierce/Sullinger to Suns for Frye/Beasley/Brown/Dudley/#5 pick.


That gives you a ton of players with 2 to 3 years left.

PG: Rondo, Ridnour , Terry

SG: Bradley, Shannon Brown, Jared Dudley, Courtney Lee

SF: Green, M. Beasley, D. Williams,

PF: Bass, Frye

C: Steemer, Melo


Is that worth getting the #5 and #9 picks?

[Birdman]

wow, inside game would suffer big time! No rebounding or scoring

[fantankerous]

If the plan is to build around Rondo/Green.  Here is my idea:

1. KG to T-wolves for DWilliams + filler + swap Picks

2. Pierce/Sullinger to Suns for Frye/Beasley/Brown/Dudley/#5 pick.


That gives you a ton of players with 2 to 3 years left.

PG: Rondo, Ridnour , Terry

SG: Bradley, Shannon Brown, Jared Dudley, Courtney Lee

SF: Green, M. Beasley, D. Williams,

PF: Bass, Frye

C: Steemer, Melo


Is that worth getting the #5 and #9 picks?

You do realize that both teams must consent to a deal, right?  In this case, both the T-Wolves and Suns will have a nice chuckle before hanging up the phone.

[TheFlex]

I get the idea but disagree for two reasons: if we're going to blow up our assets for lottery picks, I'd rather do it in 2014 as it is a stronger draft. I'm still all for picks this year, but I'd rather avoid blockbuster draft trades as we approach a weak class.

Also, forgetting the fact that the Phoenix deal isn't so hot for the them, I don't like it for us either. Why would we give away one of our top prospects in Sullinger and take back a knucklehead in Beasley just to pick a guy that isn't necessarily a sure thing?

[nickagneta]

Not sure that at either the #5 pick or the #9 pick that the Celtics could get a player as good as Sullinger, so I'm not understanding that part of this. Also, there is zero chance KG approves a trade back to Minnesota. I think some bad feelings were created by that ownership with KG near the end of his time there.

[rondoallaturca]

The entire Minnesota brass could be doing 10 different drugs at once and still laugh at that trade.

[nostar]

I doubt they would laugh. but they would want more GMs are tripping over themselves trying to get out of this draft.

On that note I don't especially want to move up in a draft everyone else wants out of. Even the top-3 picks aren't locks to be above average.

[ForexPirate]

if Cleveland wants to make a deep run into the playoff, why not send both Pierce and Garnett there.  With Irving and Varejo they could be really competitive ... at least moreso than boston.  We would get their first and nineteenth pick and some trade exceptions and what ever else is needed to balance the equation

[jay]

The Suns would be getting rid of a bunch of baggage.  They would let Pierce walk and save that money.  They would have Dragic, Gortat, and Sullinger to start with and the Morris twins and Marhall off the bench.  The key for them is they would be pretty bad and have a great shot at getting the #1 pick in 2014.  Why draft Anthony Bennett in 2013 if you have a shot at Wiggins in 2014?

T-Wolves arent in the lottery winning business anymore.  A front line of Love, KG, and AK47 and Pekovic off the bench is playoff ready especially with a good pg.  If they could draft a Sg at #16, they would be solid.  Moving back 7 spots in the draft is too much to ask to swap Derrick Williams for Kevin Garnett?

[jay]

A #5 pick guarentees you can draft Noel, McLemore, Oladipo, Porter, or Len.   I wouldnt want Otto Porter or Anthony Bennett if I was going to keep Jeff Green.  Say Bennett is the choice for arguments sake. 

A #9 pick gives you a shot at Michael Carter-Williams, Cody Zeller, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, or Shabazz Muhammed. 


Going forward, you would have:

Rondo, Ridnour
Bradley, Caldwell-Pope
Green, D. Williams
Bass, Bennett
Steemer, Melo

Trade fodder:  Terry, Lee, Dudley, Brown, Frye, Beasley

Thats still a bad enough team to go after the #1 pick in 2014.  What you do have is several young assets to build around Rondo and whoever you draft in 2014.  You have to spend a couple of years getting out from under several bad contracts, but you have to have someone on the court while you are tanking. 

[PhoSita]

I definitely wouldn't trade any of our young guys on rookie contracts to get less than a top 5 pick in this draft.

If somebody would trade us a top 10 pick to take Jeff Green off our hands, that might be a different story.

[lightspeed5]

why do you want high picks in such a weak draft for? alex len is going to be a backup if he's lucky. thats how weak this draft is.

[pearljammer10]

Neither of the teams agree to those deals. Terrible deals for both Min and the Suns.

[jay]

How about modifying the Suns deal with KG?


KG to Bulls

Hamilton, Hinrich, Gibson to Suns

Crap to Celtics (Frye, Dudley, Brown) + #5 Pick

Suns aquire picks 16 and 20. 



http://espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=pk9knjc

[jay]

Suns upgrade their bench by getting Taj, Hinrich, and Rip.  At the same time they trade down in a draft everyone is trading dopwn in.  They get the 16 and the 20.

Bulls get rid of bench, but they add KG and at the same time keep Boozer and Noah.  Thats a serious 3 man rotation inside.

KG gets to chase a title and play for a familiar coach.

Celtics get a #5 pick to try and build to the future.