Houston offered "several" Nets picks to Brooklyn for Mikal Bridges

I don't see anything wrong with it. Rockets haven't exactly crushed it on their high lottery picks lately anyway and l ike I said, brooklyn's draft capital is subjectively worth more to brooklyn than to any other teams

 

Yeah, pretty bad if true. Shows we're willing to overpay for marginal guys. Of course, Scotto should be taken with a grain of salt; maybe they only offered two.

The hilarious part is the Nets refusing that package if this is legit. They're holding onto Mikal like a smug CryptoBro with an NFT picture of a monkey.

It's not bad because we're trying to trade the picks, it's bad because the return on value is crap. If you're going to trade that many picks at least go after a better player like Lauri.

 

If the Nets wont even entertain the idea of trading Bridges for their own picks, then they are not going to trade him, period.

I do like that the Rockets are trying to improve. Not sure Bridges is the right guy though.

 

I imagine this happened in the off-season. It made too much sense not too. But I guess Brooklyn would rather be mediocre and sell tickets than ship out Bridges to start a rebuild.

The Nets with Simmons healthy will make the play-in. These picks won't be very good unless Brooklyn has several major injuries.

 

Bob Meyers said Daryl Morey used to call him up and ask for Steph Curry when he was at his MVP peak. Discussions happen. People here think Brooklyn's draft obligations are untouchable, well, OK I guess that is A VIEW, but it seems unreasonable to me given the expected ROI on those draft picks.

 

yup, i don't believe we'd be that stupid to do that this past week.

 

I read earlier in the year that Brooklyn thought that they were a superstar away from contending. Maybe they still believe this.
Seems far fetched to me, but maybe they got cap space this coming off-season and dont want to rebuild.

 

This ridiculous attempt to overpay sucks big time at first glance. I MIGHT give up 2024, but ABSOLUTELY NO MORE. I don't even want Bridges. Let a contender give up a bunch of firsts.

Perhaps there are other teams and players potentially involved.

 

I would be shocked if they turned down their own 2 picks and 2 swaps + 3 expiring contracts for just Mikal Bridges. That's worth more than 3 FRP's from any other team. The only teams I can see paying that are New York and OKC.

 

Maybe we were getting back more than just Bridges. Hard to tell what this is without specific details.

 

I could see them throwing a Super Max at Donovan Mitchell. They have a nice roster and with a Star player they are a top 4 seed. Not true contender but enough to put butts in the seats which is the goal for most teams in the NBA and certainly one with as expensive of rent as Barclays Center..

 

Possibly an example of East Coast media bias and/or BKN's counter....

 

Interesting.



The picks are use them or lose them, in the end after Mikal, you can still flip him for other assets (or picks). Front Office inquiring is doing their due diligence.

 

The devil is in the details. I doubt the Rockets offered unprotected FRPs for Bridges unless they had a third team lined up to give more back to them for Bridges.

 

I don't see this being anytime recent. Probably much closer to the offseason. It was well known Bridges was very much coveted and deemed untouchable initially when they got him.

As the deadline inches closer, I can see them being much more tolerable to hearing offers now though

 

I suppose it really just depends on your perspective. If the Rockets are convinced that we already have that guy on our roster, then adding a Mikal Bridges (and preferably Nic Claxton in the deal too) could really help us in both the short and long term. But if you don't have faith that any of our 6 young guys are going to be a top 10 player and that at least one other is going to be a top 30 player, then I think it makes perfect sense to hold on to the Brooklyn picks.

There are a lot of people though, that believe the Rockets may have hit on all 6 of our current young guys. And if you think that way, then we don't even have room for all of those picks. You can only have so many young guys on a roster.

 

HEYYYY HEYYYY HEYYYY! mountain man approves!

 

We have hit on all six. But one day, we won't have them all and we'll have to choose. We'll need good cheap young talent then.