Prediction ... Deadline Surprise

[BoulderMike]

Rationale for my prediction:
•   Danny Ainge is a sell high type of guy, to a fault (see K Perkins trade)
•   The current “…thinking is that there are lots of teams with assets looking to ‘buy’”
•   Danny Ainge focuses on finding opportunities to develop existing players, especially ones with the potential to step up considerably like Marcus Smart and Terry Rozier (again, to a fault)
•   I can image that Danny Ainge sees Isaiah Thomas as a scorer of the bench, but with the All-Star berth, that is no longer a viable option for the foreseeable future
•   Isaiah Thomas’ value is likely as high as it will ever be
•   Isaiah Thomas is an asset that many teams would value for a playoff run
•   Many of Danny’s trades emerge without trade chatter

My prediction: Danny trade’s Isaiah at the deadline and claims he received an offer he couldn’t refuse

NOTE: I am not recommending ... this is just my prediction

[indeedproceed]

My prediction: Danny Ainge makes a win-now-ish move for a somewhat established up and coming player involving Smart and possibly the non-Nets pick this year as well as future picks.

That's my bold prediction.

[trickybilly]

My prediction: Danny Ainge makes a win-now-ish move for a somewhat established up and coming player involving Smart and possibly the non-Nets pick this year as well as future picks.

That's my bold prediction.

If he trades Marcus, I will seriously consider the threat of violence. Do you feel lucky Danny?

[PhoSita]

My prediction: Danny Ainge makes a win-now-ish move for a somewhat established up and coming player involving Smart and possibly the non-Nets pick this year as well as future picks.

That's my bold prediction.

That oughta be quite a player coming back our way.  Could you give an example?

[indeedproceed]

My prediction: Danny Ainge makes a win-now-ish move for a somewhat established up and coming player involving Smart and possibly the non-Nets pick this year as well as future picks.

That's my bold prediction.

That oughta be quite a player coming back our way.  Could you give an example?

Derrick Favors or Gordon Hayward. Eric Bledsoe. Probably not anyone from Denver if its involving Smart. I dunno, it's a bold prediction.

[CelticPride2016]

Danny will not do anything too crazy, say trade for Kevin Love. What I want which probably won't happen is Sully and Turner are traded. Lee is bought out. The Celtics put Jordan Mickey on the 13 active players list. Somehow Phil Pressey returns as 3rd pg as we roll the dice with two-headed Thomas/Smart for pg, especially Thomas with Smart as hybrid, the sg when Avery is on the bench. Pressey is an effective 15th man spark plug period. Turner is a bit of too much hero ball for me, but maybe he is getting better and I am wrong on him. Evan Turner confuses me.

[jpotter33]

My prediction: Danny Ainge makes a win-now-ish move for a somewhat established up and coming player involving Smart and possibly the non-Nets pick this year as well as future picks.

That's my bold prediction.

Yeesh, who in particular would you be thinking about?

EDIT: Just saw you answered this above. I'm not big on Favors or Hayward, so I'd pass on that deal.

[mef730]

My prediction: Danny Ainge makes a win-now-ish move for a somewhat established up and coming player involving Smart and possibly the non-Nets pick this year as well as future picks.

That's my bold prediction.

If he trades Marcus, I will seriously consider the threat of violence. Do you feel lucky Danny?

I'm with you. I paid $60 for two Smart jerseys for my kids last year and I'll be [dang]ed if Danny's gonna stick it to me like that.

Mike

[jpotter33]

Rationale for my prediction:
•   Danny Ainge is a sell high type of guy, to a fault (see K Perkins trade)
•   The current “…thinking is that there are lots of teams with assets looking to ‘buy’”
•   Danny Ainge focuses on finding opportunities to develop existing players, especially ones with the potential to step up considerably like Marcus Smart and Terry Rozier (again, to a fault)
•   I can image that Danny Ainge sees Isaiah Thomas as a scorer of the bench, but with the All-Star berth, that is no longer a viable option for the foreseeable future
•   Isaiah Thomas’ value is likely as high as it will ever be
•   Isaiah Thomas is an asset that many teams would value for a playoff run
•   Many of Danny’s trades emerge without trade chatter

My prediction: Danny trade’s Isaiah at the deadline and claims he received an offer he couldn’t refuse

NOTE: I am not recommending ... this is just my prediction

Teams for who I think would trade for IT: Utah, NYK, Brooklyn, maybe New Orleans?

You can take Brooklyn out for obvious reasons, and you can probably take NYK out, too (unless they want to swap us IT for Porzingis  ). Neither of those teams would really have the assets to trade for IT that we'd be looking for.

I think the same can be said for New Orleans, too.

Utah could be a possibility, though. You're not getting Gobert from them, but Hood and/or Exum could be a possibility.

Would you do something like a swap of IT for Exum? That'd give you a pretty talented long-term backcourt in Smart and Exum. I wouldn't do it just for Hood, though, and I'm not really interested in Burke. Lyles? Meh.

[Csfan1984]

Bold is he does absolutely nothing.

[PhoSita]

My prediction: Danny Ainge makes a win-now-ish move for a somewhat established up and coming player involving Smart and possibly the non-Nets pick this year as well as future picks.

That's my bold prediction.

That oughta be quite a player coming back our way.  Could you give an example?

Derrick Favors or Gordon Hayward. Eric Bledsoe. Probably not anyone from Denver if its involving Smart. I dunno, it's a bold prediction.

Favor or Hayward I could get on board.

Bledsoe . . . meh.  Maybe if not for his knee problems.


My position on trading Smart is that doing so right now is likely to be selling low.  He may never be a great offensive player but he's not yet hit his ceiling yet, at least not over a large enough sample.

[Quetzalcoatl]

I think it would be foolish to do anything before the offseason, but I guess we'll see

[walker834]

Ainge sticks to David Lee and a pick for  a team that gets desparate and is going to lose a player for nothing. Otherwise no moves will be made.  We are somewhat in that  position with Sully ourselves where something may happen there if we can upgrade, but I think Sully ends up getting extended and Zeller.

So Gallinari, Horford or bust pretty much. I don't think Ainge forces anything really.  I don't think he makes a move for Horford regardless. I think he just inquired.  Gallo is another story but denver might not do it unless they are desparate.  It basically says what Ainge is open to exploring though.

Ainge will cover all bases like he does every trade deadline and if a move can be made that improves us he'll make it.  There might be something missing there.  Crowder for example could be on the move for an upgrade at that spot but i doubt it this deadline.  there are players like Middleton out there and Durant but I don't think Ainge finds anything there.

It's Gallo or bust. Ainge might get creative if he can find something else but will make the right move regardless like he always does.

Also Blake should be the real target for us. Not Horford.

[PhoSita]

I'm gonna go back to an idea I had a couple months back --

Sullinger, Jerebko, and a non-lotto 1st for Zach Randolph.

[BDeCosta26]

I'm gonna go back to an idea I had a couple months back --

Sullinger, Jerebko, and a non-lotto 1st for Zach Randolph.

That's interesting. Do the salaries work? I figured Z-Bo made more than 8 million or whatever those two make.

Kinda like a better version of Sullinger, even at his age. Has been a strong veteran presence for years now. I just worry about him falling off a cliff sometime soon, and losing the spacing Jerebko provides in the front-court. I mean you still have Kelly, and maybe you find some time for Mickey who's seemed to be developing a solid outside shot but Jerebko is more important to this team then people realize.

Still a cool idea though.