More perfect
Gasol to Cleveland
Love to LA
Deangelo to Memphis

Boom shakalaka

Gasol in the high post passing with Lebron at the 4 and kyrie at the 1 is making me drool

Beautiful stuff

him tzwien and AJ are shockingly silent.

You're the trade machine virtuoso, figure out how to get Marc to POR.

Nobody cares about Portland

Although I do want to visit to go to a strip club poker game

that is truly an elite trade - i didn't realise thakid still had it in him

hats off

Love trade makes sense because he plays the same position as the franchise savior, but breaking up a championship core will get excoriated if it doesn't work out. Will take some serious balls from David Griffin.

Cavs don't need melo or gasol. They need someone like shumpert who doesn't suck.

cavs should trade love for a newly maxed harrison barnes - woyas can then flip love for a 2nd

SwaggyP and Iggy Azalea split

lol D Russell

very excited to for this off-season (cant explain why exactly, similarly to the decision off-season, i feel smth interesting can happen this summer), and just looking what the final rosters will look like for playoff teams come April 2017.

Still might as well get someone great when they can for love

I agree Jarod Dudley would crush for the cavs

dont cavs just need few (2-3) random 5-7mill/y guys who can mainly defend solid (esp perimeter) and shoot well of drive-pass ? (aka shumpert except not shump cose he`s AIDs).
kevin love really isnt that needed to win series vs whats currently most likely chip contender gsw. Vs everyone else they`ll do just fine with or w/o Klove, esp given they are in the East. he isnt a bad player, but def. not worthy 110 mill or w/e, esp being quite aids mostly on defense vs woyas offense (g7 of the finals was quite weird game considering what we saw all season+98% of postsession previously from him). I mean i would certainly leave him at like 50-60% of his current contract or so, but he cant stay max player for CLE for next 2+ years (unless they somehow magically win 2nd in a row w this same roster and we see loves true value, but thats quite doubtful).

Guys who can defend the perimeter and shoot well don't get paid 5-7 million

Hell Shumpert makes 10 which is like the equivalent of 12-13 million this offseason and he's AIDS!

Feels as tho the woyas just ****ed up big i dunno injuries are a thing

Man would love Gasol on the Cavs.

Over the whole Love thing. He's a good player, for sure, and being underrated, but just not fun to cheer for. Would like to enjoy upcoming years' Cavs, since the monkey is off the back. This year was not really fun as a Cavs fan until G7 for me. Just too much whining

Looks like this is going to be the KLove trade market 2016 thread when in reality there is a 100% chance he stays on the Cavs

but then he was 100% to join the Lakers so what do i know

Love is better than Gasol imo. I know he was largely superfluous in this series, but We are also talking about a team with about a year and a half of playing together and two coaches, with Lue only having about six months with the team. Cleveland can still organically get a little better with continuity and coaching, and you have to figure Shump will improve as his health does.

I think this is a big offseason for them in that their players can and should work on their weaknesses more than ever. They have a championship squad that's relatively young, I see no need to tweak it while there is still room to improve.

And they just might be the nightmare matchup for Golden State and not the other way around. TT and Lebron as your bigs is the perfect foil for the Steph pnr, and SMIFF proved his chops as a screener in helping the Cavs dictate who they wanted Steph on. Kyrie is that Kobe-like scorer that can also shoot which seems perfect for James.

Just run it back and take your chances imo.

i posted it in the season thread but the absolutely perfect trade is amir and avery bradley for love

both teams get better, celts use capspace this year or next on someone who can protect the rim. if any team can deal with love at the 5 it's a team coached by brad with marcus smart and jae crowder as two of the perimeter defenders.

an IT2 love pnr would be dynamite and brad would find ways to put him in good scoring positions and creatively hide him on D. celtics could use his rebounding big time as well. sign al horford or maybe biyombo or maybe even whiteside and the celts are a contender overnight

(just to be clear, the celtics should NOT be adding picks in this trade, imo. bradley is under contract for two more years at a bargain price, amir has a non guaranteed 12m that'll get picked up and he can be a serviceable 3rd big for the cavs)

neither team would probably want to do this since they're kind of conference rivals, but it's the perfect example of a sum of their parts thing making both teams better. cavs are terrifying with AB dialed in on whoever kyrie or lebron don't want to guard.

the cavs will of course run it back (i mean, i think, but weirder things have happened i guess)

Dwight Howard lottery incoming. Wouldn't hate him too much on the Bucks if we move Monroe. Need an outside shooting guard though as well if we get him

Dallas seems the obvious landing spot

love is a hinderance to a team that wants to championship though, ya the celtics get 5 more wins, but their long term championship equity goes down

CBS is reporting that the Warriors will make a run at Dirk as a consolation price if they miss on KD. WTF? I love Dirk as much as the next guy, but the last thing the Warriors need right now is an aging scorer who is a significant defensive liability. Wouldn't Batum be a much better fit?

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