2025 Off-Season Thread

[MagicMan1979]

11 hours ago, CTMagicUK said:

No idea why Portland did this. 

Not entirely sure Simons is finishing the summer in Boston either. 

I would think they would reroute Jrue somewhere else?  If my memory is correct that’s how he went from Milwaukee to Portland to Boston last time. lol 

[Shine88]

The Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs are two teams with potential interest in trading for Kristaps Porzingis. The Boston Celtics are shopping Porzingis as they attempt to balance their salaries. Porzingis is on a $30.7 million expiring contract for the 2025-26 season.

[jmmagicfan]

I know that this will not be a popular opinion, but I am not now, nor have I ever been a fan of Porzingis. I like his game, and think he is an extremely talented player; but I just can’t get over how much time he has spent on the bench or injured every season. Since entering the league in 2015, he has played over 70 games exactly once; his rookie season. He has played 65 games twice, and 57 games twice and 51 games once. Unfortunately, he is a classic case of lacking one really important ability - availability.

[All Eyes On Me]

Pelicans sending McCollum, Olynyk and a future 2nd to the Wizards for Poole, Bey and pick 40 tomorrow night. Weird trade

[Shine88]

3 minutes ago, All Eyes On Me said:

Pelicans sending McCollum, Olynyk and a future 2nd to the Wizards for Poole, Bey and pick 40 tomorrow night. Weird trade

This trade has Troy Weaver written all over it. Bey was his first drafted player in Detroit and he was in Washington with Poole this past season.

[TreyMachine]

6 minutes ago, All Eyes On Me said:

Pelicans sending McCollum, Olynyk and a future 2nd to the Wizards for Poole, Bey and pick 40 tomorrow night. Weird trade

Great for the wizards. Why you’d take a head case like Poole and match him with a head case like Zion just seems like a receipt for disaster. 

[ShawnDa1]

1 hour ago, jmmagicfan said:

I know that this will not be a popular opinion, but I am not now, nor have I ever been a fan of Porzingis. I like his game, and think he is an extremely talented player; but I just can’t get over how much time he has spent on the bench or injured every season. Since entering the league in 2015, he has played over 70 games exactly once; his rookie season. He has played 65 games twice, and 57 games twice and 51 games once. Unfortunately, he is a classic case of lacking one really important ability - availability.

I heard something from Steven A, saying he has some type of unsolvable illness. 

[jmmagicfan]

So looking at Free Agent Point Guards and there are a few interesting options:

Veterans that might be interested in the $10-14M range

Malcolm Brogdan, Dennis Schroder, Chris Paul, Tre Jones

Veterans who were around the minimum last year we might get in the $3-5M

Cameron Payne, Tyus Jones, Monte Morris 

Not sure of the range, but Kevin Porter, Jr has a Player Option of only $2.5M, so he might become unrestricted.

There are some Club Option that might become available, that we have to wait and see; and some Restricted that might be interesting in Davion Mitchell or Tre Mann; but I’m leery of having us tie our money up waiting on another team to match.

[CTMagicUK]

38 minutes ago, jmmagicfan said:

Veterans that might be interested in the $10-14M range

Malcolm Brogdan, Dennis Schroder, Chris Paul, Tre Jones

If we gave anyone on that list $14m we've made a mistake.

 

[orlandoholic]

Malcolm Brogdon should be our next CoJo for the veterans minimum. 

 

otherwise i’d rather like to be aggressive and go after Sexton. 

[Shine88]

9 minutes ago, orlandoholic said:

Malcolm Brogdon should be our next CoJo for the veterans minimum. 

 

otherwise i’d rather like to be aggressive and go after Sexton. 

He's a lock to sign with Dallas.

[Luke_FfS]

I don't know what the Pelicans are thinking here again, but I like a lot this move for the W's, they will have all their young talent with 3/4 veterans to mentor them that are all expirings, and around 100m of cap space next offseason. A lot of space and options to make other moves there.