Daywalker said:
Kev4029 said:
Daywalker said:
Kev4029 said:
Frostillicus said:
Word in Minnesota is Saunders doesn't want to go into rebuilding mode, which I hate but whatever. In that case if they can get Klay, Barnes, and Lee for Love and Martin you have to take it. Rubio/Klay/Barnes/Lee/Pekovic is at least competitive (yeah!). I'd much rather have them bottom out and get as many picks as possible from Boston, but I'd rather take the Golden State offer than the reported Nuggets offer (Faried, Chandler, Afflalo who would be acquired somehow).
Rather than include Afflalo, the Nuggets could include something like Darrell Arthur (just to make salaries work, he would be an expiring contract) and the 11th pick. Personally, as a pretend Wolves fan, I would prefer Faried (signing a $10m/yr contract a year from now)+Chandler (Making $6M)+Arthur (making $3M)+11th pick, rather than Thompson (signing a $15m/yr contract a year from now)+Lee (two more years at $15M)+Barnes. But either way they are selling for 50 cents on the dollar.
ETA: I really think trading him to Golden State is the worst thing they could do. Minnesota has gobs of money next offseason and I highly doubt that the Warriors would match Thompson's contract that he is bound to get, so they could just outright sign him a year from and trade Love to Boston or Denver or wherever for what I would perceive as a better offer anyway.
Why wouldn't GSW match any Thompson offer? Why would Thompson want to go to Minn when he's a RFA? He'll have lots of offers. Klay going to get max or near-max dollars. At worst GSW can sign and trade him if they think he's too pricey.
To match Thompson's likely max offer (which I contend will be ####### ridiculous), Golden State is going a ways into the luxury tax. I would be shopping the #### out of Thompson if I were the Warriors.
Thompson would sign with Minnesota because they might be the only team to sign him to a max contract, and he would be their alpha dog. Thompson should be looking for the best scenario to make money.
Sign and trades serve no purpose to either the receiving team or the player anymore, unless the player wants to go to a team that doesn't have the cap room to sign him outright. The team can't offer the player more years and money than signing with a different team then immediately trade him like in the past.
Klay a top 5 two-guard in the league. No chance GSW lets him walk nor is Minn the only team that will offer him huge money. Thompson doesn't need to worry about money. Just where he wants to play. Only reason Minn is in the conversation is because they could acquire his RFA rights.
Maybe so, but he isn't a top 50 player, and SGs are wholly replaceable unless they are elite. You can get very similar production to Thompson from a dozen guys for half of what he'll be looking for.
Here is a list of guys that have fairly similar offensive games to Thompson, who are all on post rookie contracts making form $1M (Young) to $7M (Afflalo). There are a whole lot more guys that could fill that role too, Foye, JR Smith, Meeks, Korver, Ginobili, Ariza, Dunleavy... Overpaying for a wing is the worst thing you could do in this NBA.
If the argument is that his D lifts his value to double all those players I just listed, the fact that he could possibly be considered a top 5 SG shows that the talent pool isn't particularly strong (although it is deep), so a shutdown defender to guard the Trevor Arizas and Randy Foyes of the world isn't particularly important.
at Thompson and Bennett dictating what the Cavs do with their top 5 pick.
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