Big gamble if you ask me.

if Ja can’t get his act together in Miami under Spo and Pat Riley, he’s done for…

They both have value, but an acquirer has to pay them \(40M for Ja and \)50 for Trae for a few years.

Ja just on his 04 Vince Carter arc

The southeast triade of Trae, Ja, and LaMelo all getting traded for nothing in one season would be something

Bane, Gobert and Miles Bridges got traded for like 10x the value of Ja and Trae…

Wild

Part of the bane trade I imagine was the grizzlies being willing to eat KCP’s money as well. It was also kinda a salary dump for the Magic so another pick might’ve been sent out because of that

Even now, Bane straight up has more value than either of those players because he is a consistently good shooter at high volume, he can defend much better than either of those two, and you don’t have to build the rest of your team specifically around their weaknesses.

Bane has more trade value though, because he’s usually available, and his contract’s much better. Even in a firesale he’d have more value

Not 4 1sts but probably 2 at least

Magic fan here. Fuck those picks.

It’s like that offseason where all the Free Agents got paid absurd contracts (like Mozgov/Deng/Parsons etc), then the market crashed for the next few free agent classes

Shaq got run out of LA for being lazy, Pat was all to happy to bring him to Miami

NBA isn’t kind to guards under 6’4, add the injury risk, off court and professionalism issues, and aka can’t shoot and it’s not that surprising.

The second apron sucks so much.

But Ja being himself probably does Memphis no favors

Eh we’ll see what he ends up actually going for. Atl got expirings, but at least they were good players too. This trade is just nonsense.

I’m not even sure that the Heat will offer this depending on Spo/Riley view on Ja.

But Rozier’s been bad even when he’s played so this is essentially expiring salary filler.

The Griz choices will probably something like:

1. Expirings from the Heat

2. Levine from the Kings

3. Kuzma plus filler from the Bucks

Straight up expirings may be the best case for the Griz since then they can use cap space to trade for assets in the summer.

IIRC they can set up a trade and then have to call the league to see if they approve it.

Which is crazy, because he was being investigated by the league when the Hornets traded him and the NBA just let Miami get him without knowing whats going on.

the Heat got scammed by the NBA lmao

He’s the Miami Herald’s Heat beat guy so yes.

He said it was a HYPOTHETICAL trade, not a trade rumor that he heard from a source.

He’s the main Heat beat reporter with the Miami Herald. He definitely has sources within the front office.

heat fans say he’s usually right about their stuff

both Ja and Morant?

it’s not wild at all

what’s wild is that the Wizards didn’t also get a 1st rounder and a lot of cash in order to take on Trae’s contract

in his $3.2M trap house

are you insane? Memphis would win this trade by a massive margin.

Lmfao

There is 0 chance ja is worth jovic

Jovic will help memphis build a new training facility with all his bricks

No.  I don’t even want to give yall fontechio tbh, don’t nobody really want Ja Morant. 

I dont mind them giving yall Jovic, matter of fact, by all means, but he’s going to be shipped to the bucks

No you don’t. He’s awful

Morant just doesn’t want it. It never ceases to blow my mind how these enormously talented players just…. Fail (or refuse) to expand or adapt their game.

It is absolutely crazy hubris.

Lebron Fucking James at the end of 2011 was 2 time MVP and 2 time Eastern conference champ… And he improved more that off season than JA has over 6 seasons.

Folks will say “So and so wanted it more!” over a win, or a series…. But that’s bullshit.

“Wanted it more” is shown mostly outside of game time. Wanting it in-game is easy. Wanting it every other day is the test.

Because he is expiring salary

They don’t actually want Rozier, they want his expiring contract.

They don’t. He has an expiring contract 

You don’t want Rozier, you want his expiring contract because taking it in allows you to avoid paying Ja $40m for the next few years to play a few dozen games a season (not consecutively) with no shooting or defense and to throw a tantrum every time he feels slighted.

Well, unfortunately you don’t run the team lol

Yeah, are they planning on putting Hero and Ja out there?

yeah, you guys really “lost out” on Dame

clown show comment of the year

They can play pretend together

herro has the “white guy that hoops” blaccent never really came off as tryna talk hood

If ja wasn’t such a clown he would have value, but alas