Celtics need to avoid the luxury tax, trade an ageing Jrue to get Dillingham as their point guard for the future. With no Tatum next season, Dillingham will get a lot of ball handling opportunities. Come back strong with their healthy core for 26-27.
Giannis is likely going to ask out which means the bucks need to decide whether to rebuild fully and trade Dame, or get pieces to build a championship team. I think a starting 5 of Dame-AJ Green-McDaniels-Randle-Portis can challenge and they can trade Kuzma for a new 2 or draft someone with the picks gained.
Timberwolves trade for Giannis to form a superduo with Ant. The Timberwolves clearly view McDaniels as untradeable, but this is Giannis. They could run Jrue-Ant-Divincenzo-TSJ-Giannis for a monster defence or switch to Conley-Ant-NAW-Giannis-Reid for offense.
Lakers finally get their big man. If they're serious about another year with Bron this is the move. Rudy helps Luka on defence and then becomes a lob threat on offense whilst crashing offensive boards. Only giving up a future frp and two role players for a guaranteed top 10 defence.
Thoughts?