Some teams with interest in Knicks forward RJ Barrett believe they’d have a chance to land him if the Jazz were to acquire him in a Donovan Mitchell trade, according to Ian Begley of SNY.tv. As Begley explains, while the Jazz are thought to like Barrett, there’s a belief that they’d be open to the idea of flipping him for additional first-round picks if he were included as part of a package for Mitchell.
The Jazz’s potential plans for Barrett may be a moot point. Now that the former No. 3 overall pick has agreed to a four-year extension with the Knicks, the poison pill provision will complicate efforts to include him in any Mitchell trade — the Jazz could still theoretically acquire him, but a third team with cap room may need to get involved to make the salary-matching math work, as ESPN’s Bobby Marks noted in a video segment earlier this week.
Here’s more from around the Northwest:
- The Timberwolves‘ trade for Rudy Gobert showed that the team is ready to take the next step toward title contention, and the work that Anthony Edwards has been putting in this offseason shows that he’s positioning himself to make a third-year leap to stardom, writes Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic. According to Krawczynski, people who have been watching Edwards’ workouts this offseason have all been saying some variation of, “Just wait ’til you see him.”
- The foot injury that ended Chet Holmgren‘s rookie season before it began probably won’t have a major impact on the Thunder‘s place in the 2022/23 standings, but it will significantly diminish the buzz surrounding the team in Oklahoma City, writes Jenni Carlson of The Oklahoman. As Carlson writes, many Thunder fans that had been excited to watch Holmgren play are less likely to follow the club closely this year.
- In a subscriber-only story for Daily Thunder, Josh Haar identifies Jeremiah Robinson-Earl, Jalen Williams, and Aaron Wiggins as three candidates to earn bigger-than-expected roles for the Thunder with Holmgren sidelined.
In more NW division news the boy Nurk is pretty much having his way in the paint rn vs Hungary but he isn’t even looking like the best player on his team as Dzanan Musa has been very impressive with his versatile floor game. Bosnia has also dominated the glass in this 1st half. All that being said they’re still losing to Hungary at half bc Adam Hanga & the Hungarians are just playing really well/efficiently offensively. If they can do a better job boxing out they’ll have a nice upset to start their EuroBasket 22 journey
Musa taking over early in the 3rd. He’s up to 16pts & the Bosnian lead is up to 9
Nurk continues to play fairly well but this Musa vs Hanga match up is gonna be hard to top for any 1v1 match up in b the entire tourney. Bosnia clinging to a 4pt lead after Hanga gets a crucial tech halfway thru the 4th
Hanga’s trey had cut Bosnias lead to 2 but since then it’s been all Bosnia. 10-0 run has the lead up to 12 w/ about 3mins left
Is this your try out for The Ocho?
Idk what that is
I’m wondering if Josh Haar got his Jalen/Jaylin’s mixed up. Jalen (J-Dub) waa gonna get rotation mins either way. Jaylin is the young big that plays same position as Chet & will surely get more pt in his absence.
Chet is over rated.