Marc Stein on the trade price of a few players

[clevelandceltic]

WHo can you get that really moves the needle

I wouldn't be interested in any of the players in this post. No needle movers here. 6 months of Milsap doesn't put us tops in the East.

[fantankerous]

Denver engaged in serious talks to acquire Millsap last summer and is known to be interested again, alongside Toronto and Sacramento. (The Nuggets, for the record, are now openly shopping third-year big man Jusuf Nurkic in addition to the widely assumed availability of vets Danilo Gallinari, Kenneth Faried and Wilson Chandler).

The Hawks, sources say, want at least one quality first to headline a Millsap deal.

Word is that two first-round picks is the Nets' current asking price for center Brook Lopez.

Sources with knowledge of the Bulls' thinking emphatically deny the notion that All-Star swingman Jimmy Butler is available.

I'm told Dallas' Wesley Matthews, like Butler, is not in play. The prospect of an Andrew Bogut trade remains very real in Big D -- an outcome even Bogut has acknowledged -- but sources say that the Mavs are batting away pitches for Matthews as he continues an impressive recovery from an Achilles tear.

I call total bull crap on the Mavs battling away pitches for Matthews.  He has shot 38% since coming back from his ACL injury and is being paid 17.1 million this year, 17.9 next year, and 18.6 the year after and currently has PER of 12.7, which is HORRIBLE for a starter.  This is simply Dallas trying to make gullible idiot GM's THINK that there is ANY interest in Matthews!!!!  And before people start telling me what a GREAT defender he is, he is ranked 21st in defensive RPM!!

https://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/DRPM/position/2

Smitty77

Please stop quoting DPRM in every post until you can cite how it is calculated.  Thanks.

I second this request.  Without replicability, it's useless as evidence.

[Evantime34]

The Celtics should make a trade with Denver. Gallo and Jurkic are both great fits.

I wonder what the price is.

[spikelovetheCelts]

The Celtics should make a trade with Denver. Gallo and Jurkic are both great fits.

I wonder what the price is.

Denver to me Is the key. I hope they make a move. They have been slow a trading since they traded Carmelo.

[Moranis]

I might offer Zell ernie, Jerekbo, and Boston 2018 and 2019 lotto protected firsts for Lopez.

[liam]

WHo can you get that really moves the needle

I wouldn't be interested in any of the players in this post. No needle movers here. 6 months of Milsap doesn't put us tops in the East.

Cousins, who I don't think is available. Butler, who is also not really available. I think players that aren't available makes us contenders. I think are also a couple of players that make us better but not contenders, Noel, Milsap, Gallo, etc. But all of those guys are on expiring contracts and could be gone after in the off season if cap space is maintained. If you think this team with some tweaks can beat the Cavs beat the Cavs you maybe make the trade. I'm not seeing anything like that but maybe Danny does so....

[liam]

The Celtics should make a trade with Denver. Gallo and Jurkic are both great fits.

I wonder what the price is.

Yeah that would be a pretty good trade all right, if the price is right. I think that moves us past Toronto but not quite to where the Cavs are.

[Smitty77]

Are you my father? Therefore I trust that this is the last time you attempt to tell me what I can and cannot say!! This is NOT a joke!!

No smitty, I am your father.

Well then Granath, YOU can tell me what to do:_)))

Smitty77

[Smitty77]

Denver engaged in serious talks to acquire Millsap last summer and is known to be interested again, alongside Toronto and Sacramento. (The Nuggets, for the record, are now openly shopping third-year big man Jusuf Nurkic in addition to the widely assumed availability of vets Danilo Gallinari, Kenneth Faried and Wilson Chandler).

The Hawks, sources say, want at least one quality first to headline a Millsap deal.

Word is that two first-round picks is the Nets' current asking price for center Brook Lopez.

Sources with knowledge of the Bulls' thinking emphatically deny the notion that All-Star swingman Jimmy Butler is available.

I'm told Dallas' Wesley Matthews, like Butler, is not in play. The prospect of an Andrew Bogut trade remains very real in Big D -- an outcome even Bogut has acknowledged -- but sources say that the Mavs are batting away pitches for Matthews as he continues an impressive recovery from an Achilles tear.

I call total bull crap on the Mavs battling away pitches for Matthews.  He has shot 38% since coming back from his ACL injury and is being paid 17.1 million this year, 17.9 next year, and 18.6 the year after and currently has PER of 12.7, which is HORRIBLE for a starter.  This is simply Dallas trying to make gullible idiot GM's THINK that there is ANY interest in Matthews!!!!  And before people start telling me what a GREAT defender he is, he is ranked 21st in defensive RPM!!

https://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/DRPM/position/2

Smitty77

Please stop quoting DPRM in every post until you can cite how it is calculated.  Thanks.

I second this request.  Without replicability, it's useless as evidence.

Does this help explain it?

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/10740818/introducing-real-plus-minus

Smitty77

[Smitty77]

Denver engaged in serious talks to acquire Millsap last summer and is known to be interested again, alongside Toronto and Sacramento. (The Nuggets, for the record, are now openly shopping third-year big man Jusuf Nurkic in addition to the widely assumed availability of vets Danilo Gallinari, Kenneth Faried and Wilson Chandler).

The Hawks, sources say, want at least one quality first to headline a Millsap deal.

Word is that two first-round picks is the Nets' current asking price for center Brook Lopez.

Sources with knowledge of the Bulls' thinking emphatically deny the notion that All-Star swingman Jimmy Butler is available.

I'm told Dallas' Wesley Matthews, like Butler, is not in play. The prospect of an Andrew Bogut trade remains very real in Big D -- an outcome even Bogut has acknowledged -- but sources say that the Mavs are batting away pitches for Matthews as he continues an impressive recovery from an Achilles tear.

I call total bull crap on the Mavs battling away pitches for Matthews.  He has shot 38% since coming back from his ACL injury and is being paid 17.1 million this year, 17.9 next year, and 18.6 the year after and currently has PER of 12.7, which is HORRIBLE for a starter.  This is simply Dallas trying to make gullible idiot GM's THINK that there is ANY interest in Matthews!!!!  And before people start telling me what a GREAT defender he is, he is ranked 21st in defensive RPM!!

https://www.espn.com/nba/statistics/rpm/_/sort/DRPM/position/2

Smitty77

Please stop quoting DPRM in every post until you can cite how it is calculated.  Thanks.

Does this help??

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/10740818/introducing-real-plus-minus

Smitty77