With teams around the NBA preparing for the possibility that the 2020 offseason could be significantly truncated, one league executive tells Sean Deveney of Forbes that “there are already a lot of conversations” going on about possible offseason trades.
“If you want to get something done, you need to make sure you have the framework in place, that you know where you stand on everything because there just won’t be time to pull the trigger on these things,” the exec said.
With that in mind, Deveney spoke to a pair of executives about potential offseason trade candidates, including Magic forward Aaron Gordon. An Eastern Conference exec suggested that Gordon, who was shopped by Orlando before the February deadline, is “probably the most likely big name to be traded.”
Here are more odds and ends from around the basketball world:
- As the NBA continues to work on a plan for allowing its bottom eight teams to conduct offseason workouts, Steve Popper of Newsday (Twitter links) hears that the league may approve of up to three weeks of OTAs for those clubs. In that scenario, there likely wouldn’t be a separate campus created for the bottom eight teams, as had been previously explored, Popper notes.
- The NBA hopes to create a platform called “Combine HQ” that would help provide teams with profiles, stats, and interviews for the 105 draft-eligible prospects who received the most votes to be invited to the combine, a source tells Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated (Twitter link). It remains to be seen if such a tool would supplement an actual combine or be used in place of one.
- Lottery prospect Deni Avdija has been named the Most Valuable Player of the Israeli Basketball League, making him the youngest player ever to win the award (Twitter link). The promising young forward currently ranks fifth overall on ESPN’s 2020 big board.
I completely agree with top 3 lock
Advija is 4, I think
Wiseman will slip a few spots, especially since he’s a center.
Which has the most value？
Rudy Gobert
Aaron Gordon
Kuzma
Wiseman
Rudy is the only all nba player on that list
I really believe Warriors going after Gordon. Chemistry wise he fits better than Wiggins. He will have no problem like Green. Taking a back seat. He will fit in and still get his stats. Even easier than in Orlando. Fits right into trade exception slot. A future first rd should do it. They can get good value for Wiggins. Good value.
Deni is a nice talent. Has good size and skills for SF. Still getting better. I would not be mad if Knicks took him. I prefer Halliburton. In this draft I can see a team trade down to take him. He should go top 8. His shot is coming along. He plays both ways. He has big upside IMO.
GSW’s Iguodala Trade Exception is for $17,185,185…Gordon’s 20-21 salary is $18,136,364. So it doesn’t fit into that TPE slot.
GSW’s 2021 1st is very likely to be a late 1st round pick & their 2021 MIN 1st could easily be late lottery or worse.
The Magic already have a pick in that range + last year’s #15 pick (Okeke) will be rookie next season. They’ll probably also be in that range next year as well. So I doubt the Magic FO find either of those picks worth the risk of absorbing Wiggins’ massive contract…much less giving up Gordon on top of that.
Wiggins for Gordan?