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Winner: Boston Celtics
After falling two wins from an NBA championship, the Celtics went out and landed Danilo Gallinari, who was waived after leaving San Antonio, and Malcolm Brogdon in a trade with the Pacers, who got back Daniel Theis, Aaron Nesmith, Nick Stauskas. , Malik Fitts, Juwan Morgan and a 2023 first-round pick from Boston. All of those parts are highly expendable for Boston, which essentially got Brogdon for a first-round pick that will likely land in the mid-to-late 20s. Brogdon is very good. Add to Boston’s ridiculously stacked defense and he’s another ball-handler and scorer that lives well in Boston’s balanced offense.
Winner: Atlanta Hawks
Trading Kevin Huerter, a good player, for a draft pick that may very well not carry until 2027 is questionable to me. Now, if that pick ends up being linked to, say, Clint Capela or John Collins, and the Hawks flip another All-Star-ish player (to follow the Dejounte Murray move), then we’ll reevaluate. But right now, losing Huerter just because you have a positional logjam is tough. The Hawks would almost certainly prefer to keep Huerter over Bogdan Bogdanovic, but the latter doesn’t have the trade value to bring back a first-round pick, protected or otherwise. However, the Spurs’ acquisition of Murray makes this season a win for Atlanta. He can still improve, but Murray alone is a very nice addition. There are pessimistic points about the pairing with Trae Young. Both thrive on the ball. Young is a more natural option to play off the ball, but he needs to commit, and by commit I don’t mean just stand somewhere at some distance from the floor while Murray runs pick and rolls. The young man must move. Section. Carry over. Become a Steph Curry-like parasite to watch. I have my doubts about his desire to do so. I envision more of him moving once off the screen, not getting the ball, then standing around or, at best, running to the handler for a dribble-hand. But even in this environment the Hawks are a better team. Murray is a second guy who can catch two feet and has really improved his mid-range shots. Defensively, Murray is a long, athletic monster. He is a nightmare on the ball and a hawk, so to speak, off the ball. You are playing with fire even trying to execute a DHO by spotting it. He’ll reach out with those Inspector Gadget arms and push this thing in an instant. The Hawks now have two high-level perimeter defenders in Murray and DeAndre Hunter. Onyeka Okongwu can be quite big at defensive end. If they trade Collins or Capela, it would have to be for another two-way player to leave Young as the only real target in the starting lineup. That’s how a Trae Young team can survive defensively. No more weak links. Atlanta is making moves to create that reality. The man has played 85 career games over three seasons, one of which he didn’t play a second, and he just got a five-year contract extension that could be worth as much as $231 million. Not sure if this is a win for the Pelicans. If Zion plays and stays healthy for the majority of this contract, of course, it’s a win. New Orleans has a very good team in the making. But if Williamson is in and out of the lineup and the Pelicans never gain real traction in a loaded Western Conference and Zion’s trade value drops because he can’t stay healthy, this could end badly for the Pels. But for Zion, no matter how he plays, he’s out filthy rich.
Winner: Minnesota Timberwolves
The Wolves gave up enough capital to drown a hippo, but they got Rudy Gobert. After signing Karl-Anthony Towns to a four-year, $224 million extension that keeps him in Minnesota for the next six years, it’s time for the Twin Towers in Minnesota, who sent back Malik Beasley, Patrick Beverley, Walker Kessler, Leandro Bolmaro . , Jarred Vanderbilt and several first-round picks: unprotected first-rounders in 2023, 2025 and 2027, and a protected top-five pick in 2029. Gobert is a one-man defense, and opinions of him losing his defensive viability in the playoffs are overblown. Given the Wolves’ ability to score the ball with Towns, Anthony Edwards and D’Angelo Russell, this suddenly looks like a really good team. It will have to be to justify that steep price, but it’s worth the risk. It’s been years since Wolves have really been a team that took this seriously, and I don’t subscribe to the theory that teams have to win a championship to justify these kinds of bets. Indeed, Wolves are not going to win the title next year. It’s probably a good bet they won’t win one during the Gobert era, however long that lasts. Do you know why? Because only one team wins it all. That doesn’t mean the other 29 were wrong. For the Wolves, this is a major jolt of franchise energy, building on the momentum they’ve already built with the drafting of Anthony Edwards and last year’s playoff appearance. Same with the Hawks trading Dejounte Murray. They gave a ton. It’s possible they won’t win it all. But he’s in the ring. They try to fight. Fans love this. The energy around a franchise feeds on itself. There’s no way you can’t be excited about Wolves going into next season, and when was the last time you could honestly say that? The Gobert/Donovan Mitchell streak had hit a ceiling. Everyone knew it. The Jazz didn’t mess around. They cut bait with Gobert and brought back a huge amount of assets, which they will now use to build around Mitchell. Utah can enter multiple conversations with four additional first-round picks and some nice hires to float in trade talks. This is a win-win. Minnesota needed to make waves with a big move and Utah needed a fresh start. Both succeeded. Dallas lost Jaylen Brunson and shows no signs of replacing him so far. He was the second best player on a team that went to the conference finals and at times served as a more than capable player when Luka Doncic was out. I think Brunson was worth more money to the Mavericks next to Luka than he will be in New York. I would like to see the Mavericks pursue Brogdon after losing Brunson. But at least the Mavs got JaVale McGee for $20 million.
Winner: Cleveland Cavaliers
Cleveland locked up Darius Garland to a rookie-max extension (but a win for Garland at five years and a potential $231 million) and brought back Ricky Rubio, who was a key player for the Cavs as they got off to a surprisingly hot start last season . Rubio was the classic stalwart for a young team, averaging 13-6-4 before tearing his ACL last December. It suited them very well. Rubio’s return for $18 million over three years is a good deal for both player and team. Robin Lopez is also going to Cleveland. He backs up Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen as Cleveland can stay huge with multiple lineups.
Winner: Jalen Brunson
Branson was paid. The Knicks reportedly gave him a four-year, $104 million contract. For a guy taken in the second round in 2018, that’s a windfall. Good for him. Worth it. We’ll see how Brunson does without Luka Doncic getting all the defensive attention. But in any case, the bag is secured. Brunson is set for life, and the icing on the cake is that he plays for his father, Rick Brunson, who recently accepted an assistant coaching position with the Knicks.
Loser: New York Knicks
Look, good for Brunson, but I don’t think he’s a good enough player to commit that kind of money for the next four years. From where I sit, unless the Knicks, who gave Mitchell Robinson $60 million, somehow manage to swing a trade for a star player they’ve stood out for the past decade or so, they’ve pretty much just signed themselves for mediocrity. Having $164 million committed to Jalen Brunson and Mitchell Robinson is just too much. Brunson, who is instantly becoming New York’s best player (yes, he’s better than RJ Barrett and Julius Randle) can’t, in fact, suffice as anything more than the third-best player on a real contending team. championship. The Knicks also signed Isaiah Hartenstein to $16 million over two years, which is fine. He will be a nice backup center. But nothing that moves the needle. At the end of the day, to go out and move all the pieces the Knicks moved to clear the cap space they did to end up with a non-All-Star as a $104 million prize, that’s a waste. The guy signed the biggest contract in NBA history. Five years, $264 million. He will make an impressive $60 million in the final year of the deal. I’m not sure what else to say. The man won. So did the Nuggets. Jokic is awesome. It wasn’t free agency. technically, that bit brooklyn, but on thursday kevin durant issued a trade request.
title: “Nba Offseason Winners And Losers Celtics Add To Championship Formula. Hawks Blazers Prioritize Defense " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-25” author: “Barbara Stuber”
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Winner: Boston Celtics
After falling two wins from an NBA championship, the Celtics went out and landed Danilo Gallinari, who was waived after leaving San Antonio, and Malcolm Brogdon in a trade with the Pacers, who got back Daniel Theis, Aaron Nesmith , Nick Stauskas. , Malik Fitts, Juwan Morgan and a 2023 first-round pick from Boston. All of those parts are highly expendable for Boston, which essentially got Brogdon for a first-round pick that will likely land in the mid-to-late 20s. Brogdon is very good. He adds to Boston’s ridiculously stacked defense and is another handler and scorer who lives well in a flowing, balanced offense.
Winner: Atlanta Hawks
Trading Kevin Huerter, a good player, for a draft pick that may very well not carry until 2027 is questionable to me. Now, if that pick ends up being linked to, say, Clint Capela or John Collins, and the Hawks flip another All-Star-ish player (to follow the Dejounte Murray move), then we’ll reevaluate. But right now, losing Huerter just because you have a positional logjam is tough. The Hawks would almost certainly prefer to keep Huerter over Bogdan Bogdanovic, but the latter doesn’t have the trade value to bring back a first-round pick, protected or otherwise. However, the Spurs’ acquisition of Murray makes this season a win for Atlanta. He can still improve, but Murray alone is a very nice addition. There are pessimistic points about the pairing with Trae Young. Both thrive on the ball. Young is a more natural option to play off the ball, but he needs to commit, and by commit I don’t mean just stand somewhere in the distance while Murray runs pick and rolls. The young man must move. Section. Carry over. Be a Steph Curry-like fly to watch. I have my doubts about his desire to do so. I envision more of him moving once off the screen, not getting the ball, then standing around or, at best, running to the handler for a dribble-hand-off. But even in this environment the Hawks are a better team. Murray is a second guy who can catch two feet and has really improved his mid-range shots. Defensively, Murray is a long, athletic monster. He is a nightmare on the ball and a hawk, so to speak, off the ball. You are playing with fire even trying to execute a DHO by spotting it. He’ll reach out with those Inspector Gadget arms and push this thing in an instant. The Hawks now have two high-level perimeter defenders in Murray and DeAndre Hunter. Onyeka Okongwu can be quite big at defensive end. If they trade Collins or Capela, it would have to be for another two-way player to leave Young as the only real target in the starting lineup. That’s how a Trae Young team can survive defensively. No more weak links. Atlanta is making moves to create that reality. The man has played 85 career games over three seasons, one of which he didn’t play a second, and he just got a five-year contract extension that could be worth as much as $231 million. Not sure if this is a win for the Pelicans. If Zion plays and stays healthy for the majority of this contract, of course, it’s a win. New Orleans has a very good team in the making. But if Williamson is in and out of the lineup and the Pelicans never gain real traction in a loaded Western Conference and Zion’s trade value drops because he can’t stay healthy, this could end badly for the Pels. But for Zion, no matter how he plays, he’s out filthy rich.
Winner: Minnesota Timberwolves
The Wolves gave up enough capital to drown a hippo, but they got Rudy Gobert. After signing Karl-Anthony Towns to a four-year, $224 million extension that keeps him in Minnesota for the next six years, it’s time for the Twin Towers in Minnesota, who sent back Malik Beasley, Patrick Beverley, Walker Kessler, Leandro Bolmaro . , Jarred Vanderbilt and several first-round picks: unprotected first-rounders in 2023, 2025 and 2027, and a protected top-five pick in 2029. Gobert is a one-man defense, and opinions of him losing his defensive viability in the playoffs are overblown. Given the Wolves’ ability to score the ball with Towns, Anthony Edwards and D’Angelo Russell, this suddenly looks like a really good team. It will have to be to justify that steep price, but it’s worth the risk. It’s been years since Wolves have really been a team that took this seriously, and I don’t subscribe to the theory that teams have to win a championship to justify these kinds of bets. Indeed, Wolves are not going to win the title next year. It’s probably a good bet they won’t win one during the Gobert era, however long that lasts. Do you know why? Because only one team wins it all. That doesn’t mean the other 29 were wrong. For the Wolves, this is a major jolt of franchise energy, building on the momentum they’ve already built with the drafting of Anthony Edwards and last year’s playoff appearance. Same with the Hawks trading Dejounte Murray. They gave a ton. It’s possible they won’t win it all. But he’s in the ring. They try to fight. Fans love this. The energy around a franchise feeds on itself. There’s no way you can’t be excited about Wolves going into next season, and when was the last time you could honestly say that? The Gobert/Donovan Mitchell streak had hit a ceiling. Everyone knew it. The Jazz didn’t mess around. They cut bait with Gobert and brought back a huge amount of assets, which they will now use to build around Mitchell. Utah can enter multiple conversations with four additional first-round picks and some nice hires to float in trade talks. This is a win-win. Minnesota needed to make waves with a big move and Utah needed a fresh start. Both succeeded. Dallas lost Jaylen Brunson and, unless they’re going to make a sneak attack for Kyrie Irving, show no signs of replacing him with a high-quality playmaker. He was the second best player on a team that went to the conference finals and at times served as a more than capable player when Luka Doncic was out. I think Brunson was worth more money to the Mavericks next to Luka than he will be in New York. I’d like to see the Mavericks pursue Brogdon after losing Brunson, or just not lose Brunson in the first place. Dallas traded for Christian Wood, who should pair nicely as a pick-and-roll/pop complement with Doncic, but treading water by removing Brunson and adding Wood feels like an effective step back in what’s going to be it is a death march. Western Conference. But at least the Mavs got JaVale McGee for $20 million.
Winner: Cleveland Cavaliers
Cleveland locked up Darius Garland to a rookie-max extension (but a win for Garland at five years and a potential $231 million) and brought back Ricky Rubio, who was a key player for the Cavs as they got off to a surprisingly hot start last season . Rubio was the classic stalwart for a young team, averaging 13-6-4 before tearing his ACL last December. It suited them very well. Rubio’s return for $18 million over three years is a good deal for both player and team. Robin Lopez is also going to Cleveland. He backs up Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen as Cleveland can stay huge with multiple lineups.
Winner: Jalen Brunson
Branson was paid. The Knicks reportedly gave him a four-year, $104 million contract. For a guy taken in the second round in 2018, that’s a windfall. Good for him. Worth it. We’ll see how Brunson does without Luka Doncic getting all the defensive attention. But in any case, the bag is secured. Brunson is ready for life, and the icing on the cake is playing for his father, Rick Brunson, who recently accepted an assistant coaching position with the Knicks.
Loser: New York Knicks
Look, good for Brunson, but I don’t think he’s a good enough player to commit that kind of money for the next four years. From where I sit, unless the Knicks, who gave Mitchell Robinson $60 million, somehow manage to swing a trade for a star player they’ve stood out for the past decade or so, they’ve pretty much just signed themselves for mediocrity. Having $164 million committed to Jalen Brunson and Mitchell Robinson is just too much. Brunson, who is instantly becoming New York’s best player (yes, he’s better than RJ Barrett and Julius Randle) can’t, in fact, suffice as anything more than the third-best player on a real contending team. championship. The Knicks also signed Isaiah Hartenstein to $16 million over two years, which is fine. It will be a nice support center. But nothing that moves the needle. At the end of the day, to go out and move all the pieces the Knicks moved to clear the space they did to end up with a non-All-Star as…
