Random Trade Thread 2025-26

It's the Red seats and red everywhere. Do the stage lighting (I think that's what it's called when it's dark in the crowd and the court's lit) and change the chairs to black. That'll solve all our problems. Hire me Stone.

 

Even with the poison pill, you could do Jabari for Trey III but you'd need a 3rd team with some cap space to make it work

Jabari to New Orleans - he counts as $~25m incoming salary.
But he only counts for $12.35m in outgoing salary.

Trey to Houston, he counts as $25m incoming salary.

Brooklyn or Utah as the 3rd team

That means the Rockets would need a 3rd team to take on ~$8.1m in outgoing salary. The only player in that price range on the roster is that I'd give up is DFS at $12.7. which leaves you plenty of space to pick up a player to fill the 14th roster spot with a contract somewhere around $5m.

Those Dallas and PHX picks don't look so good anymore, I'd throw them in and call it a day.

 

Need to dump holiday's contract for some cash considerations and yu gi oh starter decks.

Take Ime's dragon toy away from him

 

This is not so far fetched. Backgrounds sure make a difference in baseball. Why not basketball? Except the other teams don’t seem to have a problem with it.

 

Westbrook would be a good fill in off the bench to get us through the year. Probably the easiest trade out of all. Holiday + 2nds

I think he’d be good while Reed still works on his game. Allows him to just be a shooter and get his confidence up. Westbrook best bet at setting guys up. He competes. Best us twice…

 

Jaren Jackson jr available, hmm

 

Yuck

 

Houston Rockets Trade Breakdown
Change in Team Outlook: +14.4 ppg, -5.3 rpg, and +5.6 apg.
Incoming Players
Coby White
25 year old, 6-4, 195 lb PG from North Carolina
18.6 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 4.5 apg in 28.0 minutes in 2025-2026
Ayo Dosunmu
25 year old, 6-4, 200 lb PG from Illinois
14.5 ppg, 2.7 rpg, 3.5 apg in 26.2 minutes in 2025-2026
Outgoing Players
Jabari Smith, Jr.
22 year old, 6-11, 220 lb F from Auburn
15.0 ppg, 6.9 rpg, 1.9 apg in 34.6 minutes in 2025-2026
Clint Capela
31 year old, 6-10, 256 lb PF from Chalon-Sur-Saone (France)
3.6 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 0.5 apg in 11.5 minutes in 2025-2026

 

There are rumors that Dejounte Murray is already healthy but the Pels are just keeping him out to play the younger guys.

FVV and DFS for Murray works. Add one of our worse 1sts or even some 2nds and it should be enough for them.

It's a Klutch for Klutch trade so maybe they can convince FVV to waive the no trade. Maybe we can just give him the full MLE to come back next year.

 

FVV will not get traded before the trade deadline. He loses his bird rights if he gets traded.

 

How much would that next contract be anyway? He signed 25M a year before a catastrophic injury and a full MLE is already around 15M a year. If he had a 3 year full MLE promise that might be even better than what he'd get with his bird rights.

 

Only if he consents to a trade and doesn't exercise player option before trade occurs. The consenting* to a trade would seem to be the hurdle, and not the Bird rights.

*other than the Rockets hope he's available later this season.

 

Anything can happen in this league so I can't say anything is a 0% chance of happening. It is just hard to see FVV waive his NTC and lose his bird rights to go to a non-contending team.

 

That's fair and it's why I made a point to mention Klutch in my post instead of just saying FVV and DFS for Dejounte. At the end of the day, Fred holds the power of the NTC and if he can somehow be convinced that it is in his best long term interest to waive it then anything is on the table.

 

Fred we suck donkey balls. You would be better served going to a contender. Hopefully this will work.

 

FVV would exercise his player option before the trade, such that he retained his Bird rights. The bigger issue is getting him to accept a trade.

 

I thought you could only exercise the player option once the season ends.

Edit: Nevermind I believe you can. I just think the players wait to exercise it.

 

It could cost him 30-40m over the life of his next 3-4 year contract.

There is the possibility that he picks up his option now and is traded .... I don't think there are any financial implications in doing so.

 

With Cam Thomas losing almost all of his value, would they be willing to trade DFS and a protected pick for Cam Thomas? You get another ball handler/scorer and open up about $7 million in cap space.

 

I want Malik Monk on this team and have for years. I'd be willing to deal Jabari for him straight up.

Malik Monk Contract

• 2025-26: ~$18.8 Million
• 2026-27: ~$20.2 Million
• 2027-28 (Player Option): ~$21.6 Million

I know his stat line doesn't pop off the page but the dude can straight up ball. We need a guard who can attack and nail the 3.


Jabari Smith Jr Contract

• 2025-26: $12,350,392 (Team Option Exercised)

Contract Extension (2026-2031)

• 2026-27: ~$23,643,411 (Extension Begins)
• 2027-28: ~$21,751,940
• 2028-29: ~$23,643,411
• 2029-30: ~$25,500,000 (Estimated)
• 2030-31: ~$27,400,000 (Estimated)

Only issue is we are $6.3 million off on the deal.

Tate, Holiday, Okogie, Green each make $2.3 million.

It would take Jabari and 3 of those guys to make the deal work and 4 players for Monk is not worth the price and I'm sure Sacramento would have no interest in aquiring our bench.

Nevermind.