Weaver and Dumars go together like chocolate and tuna salad

It was like that before this gm

you’re nba champions josh hart and jose alvarado bad

Trey Murphy is probably their most valuable player. They are just convinced Zion is.

Probably pretty good considering they should want to tank

Seattle and Vegas each get an unprotected first in exchange for not picking anyone from their roster.

Protect all the cheap players and leave Zion unprotected.

I think its more so that teams have been interested in murphy, jones, etc. for 3 years now. Despite being bad every year they show no interest in moving anyone on their roster

Over 3 years they haven’t received not even 1 offer worth taking? Yet they’ll trade an unprotected 1st for Derik Queen, while knowing they’ll be dog shit the next year?

Jaylen brown’s contract is terrible. Trey mutphy’s is great.

trey murphy for 3 frp when jaylen brown went for 2 does still seem like asking for a “can’t refuse” offer.

Jaylen Brown turns 30 in October and is owed \(58M, \)62M and $66M over the next three years. Even if you assume he remains in or very close to his prime at age 32, that’s an extreme price to pay. It locks you in to whatever roster you already have around him, there’s almost no flexibility for other moves.

Trey Murphy is signed for the exact same amount of time and makes less than half of that. He is theoretically entering his prime (signed for his age 26, 27 and 28 seasons).

If it was just Jaylen Brown vs. Trey Murphy in a vacuum, that’s another story. But it’s ~$30 million in flexibility and their respective career timelines. Murphy is pretty easily a more attractive asset.

Well mikal bridges went for 5

JB didn’t even go for two. One of the 1sts was probably to unload PG’s deal.

Teams want shooting and Murphy shoots it better than Brown.

There’s more to it than just that, but Murphy fits the Bane and Bridges mold better.

Trey Murphy is a very good 3 and D wing who averages 28 mil a year. Jaylen browns contract averages 57 mil a year- oh and btw he wants an extension too

Forgive us for not trading Trey Murphy III for Anthony Davis and Max Christie.

It would be a glorious few minutes before somebody posts in the Pistons sub: “Yes, we got Murphy but we gave up too much. Here are 10 reasons why this is Jalen Duren’s fault.”

As a secondary Pels fan, it was so surreal to see CJ, Dyson, and NAW playing against Josh Hart and Alvarado in our post season matchup. Add TM3 to that and its would just be straight weird.

I’m already mentally prepared for another trade season where the most exciting new player we get is Cody Zeller.

Ah yes, that’s what Hornets and Celtics fans said…

I mean if that’s really the asking price idk why they don’t have teams banging on their door, the pistons should do this yesterday. Trey Murphy is the archetype that fits onto any championship roster, why the fuck do people think they’re crazy asking this much I think it’s more than fair. Matching salary with a shitty player and 4 picks

You think just injuries is why Pelicans weren’t contenders last year?

And even more reason to ask a lot-if you’re already on the bubble of bottom three, and you send a guy out, you’re basically signing up to be punished by the anti-tanking measures.

You have to get enough back to make it worth it.

Pelicans gonna have to ring bells before they come out of the tunnel

Their roster isn’t good, but they were also one of the most injured teams in the 2024-2025 season. Maybe the worst injury luck in the league. That may be a natural consequence of trying to build around Zion to a degree, but they’ve also just been unlucky.

Would they be relevant without the injuries? Probably not. I’m just adding a little more context.

Can the Celtics cover it with their trade exception?

If this, along with other reporting were true, then he would already have been traded to the Warriors a few weeks ago.

They had the #11 pick open for trade. Reports said the Pelicans wanted to trade Murphy to get Nate Ament. Ament was there. Warriors have multiple future firsts also available and seem to be ready to go all in for Curry’s last few years.

Maybe the above were true, except Ament was a smokescreen and they really wanted Morez Johnson, but all we know is no trade happened.

Great contract too

The Pels can keep Murphy until the deadline and he would still have 2.5 years of a great contract left. And he would help the Pels win games in the meantime to stay out of the bottom three.

I don’t disagree that at some point it would be in the best interest of the Pels to trade him, but when we’re talking about trading him in this specific offseason, there’s no reason for the Pels to need trade him unless they get a great offer

You’re hurting your odds by ending up in the bottom three by trading these guys.

You gotta pay an extra tax, because for the first time ever, you’re hurting your own lottery pick by trading a guy. The incentives are for them to NOT trade and avoid the bottom three like hell.

Murphy has 3 years left and fits any timeline. His value won’t change from now until the trade deadline, or even next offseason, unless he suffers a major injury.

It’s only Zion, Dejounte Murray, and Saddiq Bey, and maybe Herb that fit your comment. But what trades are there for Zion/Murray that actually bring back any value? A Murray trade either brings back a terrible contract plus maybe 1 first, or is just a straight up swap of players. So what’s the point.

Seems like everyone is now expecting the Pelicans to trade Murphy just for the sake of it, and to get back a shit deal just so they can shit on them for that deal.

“But they suck anyway”. Yeah, that’s what happens when the only two players that played more than 72 games last year were rookies. Two of the top four players on the team in minutes. 5 of the top 10 were rookies or second year players. If they show good leaps this year as building blocks, that’s when you know for sure you can build around them.

I am pro-trading Murphy and 3 firsts is a reasonable ask. The hate we get for being largely irrelevant is crazy when there are plenty of other ass teams to spread the mockery. I feel like it’s because we pissed off Lakers fans during the AD saga or something

Winning players? That doesn’t make any sense. What winning players are the Pistons going to offer the Pelicans that are going to lead to us winning lmao? Trading Murphy, especially, is a clear signal for a tear it all down and rebuild, which is why the compensation is in terms of draft capital. Plus, no true winning players aren’t going to want to come to New Orleans, let’s just be real. We aren’t trading TM3 because we’re ready for a playoff push.

Quite frankly this logic just doesn’t make sense. First off, Murphy is the winning player on this roster, trading him would have the Pels pivoting to the future. As for your comment on taking more risks, what part of trading an unprotected first last year wasn’t a risk? Pels fans are ecstatic because they haven’t done that this offseason haha

The best thing for the Pels right now is to stay in the 4th-10th lotto range and get more young talent to build around Fears/Queen, and the new CBA incentivizes them to hold onto vets like Trey right now to help win some games to stay in that range. Again, that doesn’t mean he’s untradeable, but a team is going to need to force their hand

Like who? You’re making up hypothetical guys they can never get.

They’d need a good bit more in return than #11 for Murphy.  

Because he’s a legit moron, he’s ruined his reputation, and he needs to accept that

He is a moron tho. And I’m a pels fan ONLY because I’m from down here

Yep, Trey only has ³⁄₈₇ left on his deal

Definitely not the same