Absolutely not. They have reaves already he does most of what Trae does and is cheaper.

It’s not that realistic, the money doesn’t really work. Our only three decent salaries outside Giannis are Kuz, Turner and Bobby. Turner kinda can’t leave because the only other actual centre we have is Jericho Sims, but Kuz and Bobby leave us $5-6m short on salary matching. Could move Prince and Coffey or something, or KPJ if they want a guard back and a player on an actual good value contract, but idk what Atlanta’s supposed to do with their roster in a ³⁄₄-1 player trade.

It’s technically doable, but I have to imagine it’s way too much hassle for them given the only real asset we have to attach is the 2031 1st. It’ll be a good one no doubt, but I don’t think it’s that enticing.

Is Trae really that much better than Dame was?

Rollins and KPJ are statistically our 2nd and 3rd best players this season. Trae ain’t the missing piece, IMHO. Maybe they’ll take Doc off our hands?

Raps get Trae, Gafford, Powell

Hawks get AD and Ochai

Mavs get Risacher, Quick, Gradey, Poeltl and some amount of picks.

Works financially, not sure if the Mavs will be happy about it.

You think he’s worth something with that player option for next year and the complete lack of defensive effort?

If we can secure anything of any value at all I would be elated

Trae would be a huuuuge upgrade over Quickley. That is a no brainer for Toronto. Not sure why Atlanta would bring in Davis and move off from Trae though.

Do you realize that Young is really good? He’s like at the 1% of passers in the league. Plus the Raptors are filled with guys that are long and are great defenders. It’ll cover all of Young’s holes.

That defence though chefs kiss

Yeah sounds nice at first but then you realize you have 3 ballhogs who like to put a lot of shots and iso and also are bad at defense. Recipe for a disaster or a good tank

Brother I’ve seen yall play. You might be the farm team when all is said and done.

Getting their pick then sending them questionable health Trae in a trade is some devious shit.

Careful throwing stones in a glass house. Your team might just fuck around and send the Spurs another high pick this year.

but don’t you get it? Vivek won’t get more jersey sales if he doesn’t do this!

Oof rough reading that from a blazers fan. Love the fanbase love the players the front office is an issue, as much as dames loyalty to you guys. He got fed up a little too late.

I’m not saying that the Hawks shouldn’t trade him. I will also never say that LeBron should’ve stayed in Cleveland or Dame did the Blazers wrong by asking out

Don’t mean to be rude here but this description really is not good… Trae doesn’t rely on athleticism much at all, as much as it might look like it, his first step isn’t great and he has almost no verticality. It’s why his rim finishing is very bad and his self-creation is also very bad, and the only self-creation he has that’s remotely successful is grifting fouls to get to the line. He’s really not that athletic by NBA standards…

He relies on having a rim running center/big to run PnRs through and covering for him on defense. And he relies on a scheme that has the ball in his hands all the time, which is not what we’re running and not what Snyder wants to run. His defense is horrendous as is common knowledge and the new physicality being officiated this year and last has been tough on him. He’s also a diva and does not fit the culture we’re trying to groom with this new, young, squad.

Not happening for the Grizz unless we are just done with Ja.

Grizzlies could be included in a 3 team trade though. Maybe something like…

Trae + GG Jackson + Landale to the Timberwolves.

Conley + Reid to the Grizzlies.

KCP + Dillingham + Wolves picks + rights to the 2029 Magic pick that Grizzlies own.

Rockets as well

Timberwolves would be fantastic basketball fit but it’s tricky making the money work without Randle or Gobert. Trae is really good but Randle is a hair better and Gobert is crucial for their defense. Reid, Divincenzo, Conley, Dillingham gets it done but trading 4 players for 1 is hard on your depth. I don’t if the contracts make sense for that move.

For the heat, Wiggins and Rozier (if they can trade him) for Trae and Kennard works and that I think makes more sense for both teams. I think there’s an interesting deal to be made by involving a third team and packaging Porzingus and Rozier and sending them to a third team for a max contract player: that’s a LOT of expiring money and I think if there’s a rebuilding team that has a max player that needs out (Giannis? AD? Ja? Sabonis?) that could be attractive.

Well push it from your mind because Trae makes almost as much as KAT and we got rid of him to get under the 2nd apron. We’re not about to trade multiple rotation players just to get the salary to work for Trae.

I like the idea of Trae on our team but not the cost. We’d have to move Randle but salary still doesn’t match. I’m not willing to give up other assets just to get Trae, Randle is on a good contract and Trae is on a horrible one. Some other team would need to give the rest of the salary and frankly, Trae on that contract is a negative asset so the hawks have to throw in some picks as well.

I don’t think trae can be a 2nd option ball handler 

GOLDEN STATE WARRIORSSSSSSSS

You are not bad. You are a measurement stick for dogshit teams. You keep the league in balance of being a clear measure where the tank begins.

It peaked when they started letting defenses play defense after the 2024 all-star break. Tack on the fact offenses are allowed to bulldoze defenders this season and all the other physicality on and off ball and Trae looks like a JV player against Monstars every game

It can say whatever you want it to.

I’m not saying the criticisms brought up in this thread aren’t valid. They mostly are. But we literally don’t have a center. OO is 6’8” and is getting 30+ a night as starter. KP has missed more games this year than AD. I trust in Onsi, but I don’t think this season is fair to put on Trae’s shoulders.

Yeah. We dont have any assets.

Ngl, I have always liked Trae, but I think Dyson is a really bad investment without someone like him in the backcourt. I cannot think of a more complementary pair.

34 year old Kyrie off a torn ACL might not work out too well either. I’d buy low on Trae if I were them

Exactly this. What assets are we getting back for taking on another player that doesn’t help the development of our young guys and clogs up our cap space?

A primary goal for moving off of AD is to have a better cap sheet to acquire more assets and being involved in a three team trade where we are essentially swapping big salaries does nothing for that goal.

We don’t want to move on from him per se, but Naz at the 4 works really fucking well with Rudy. All the advanced metrics has that as one of the best front courts in the NBA. It makes sense to move Randle so we can slot Naz in. We desperately need a PG and this is a huge net upgrade for the wolves imo.

The issue is salary and trade assets. Trae is a negative asset and Randle is arguably better than him and makes much less. We aren’t giving up anyone else so another team has to come in and pony up the rest and the hawks will have to give that team picks im guessing, which probably doesn’t make sense from the hawks perspective.

I don’t see how they get out of this. They are better off just letting him become an FA in two years,

If they let Collins walk and decline team options on Brook Lopez, Bogdon and Batum they can open up close to max space.

Harden has a player option for ²⁶⁄₂₇ worth $42m which can be tricky to plan for but if he declines that and leaves then they’ll have max space and then some.