[Arenas] “Where the fuck are the trades at? TRADE ALREADY! TRADE somebody, damn!“

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  4. I wonder why Laker fans both think our players aren’t good enough and expect them to be viable trade assets to improve. It legit baffles me. And that’s knowing there’s a Laker tax even when dealing.

  6. These dumb mofo’s don’t understand how the new CBA affects in-season (and to a certain extent, off-season) player movement. It’s just way more complicated to make trades now

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  16. I think GMs are afraid of doing moves because they know, jo GM has been fired for doing nothing, but GMs have been fired for doing trades. Last one Nico.

    For instance, Milwaukee Bucks GM doesn’t want to be the one who goes in history as the one who traded Giannis. Because OKC cases there’s only one. When they traded Paul George and everything went perfect after then. So you trade Giannis and you perfectly can be 20 years in purgatory. Because who’s gonna go to Milwaukee??

    Also imagine being Lakers GM Pelinka. You do nothing, you keep your job even if Lakers are a 2nd tound exit. At least for now. But you trade future assets in order to give LeBron and Luka a chance and if they doesn’t go as expected (ring) you’re fucked. Then LeBron retires and the narrative around mortgaging their future comes around.
    Or you trane Reaves, he turns into a 28-6-8 guy, perennial all star and you’re fucked.

    You’re the Knicks. You have turmoil in the team but you gave all your picks and you (in paper) created a perfect starting 5. But who’s gonna trade KAT? Or do you trade Brunson? Either way you are ducked. And now people begin to talk about how you gave practically 5 1st for a 3 and D guy.

  17. Second apron allows for a more competitive balance but makes it very difficult to execute in season trades.

  19. CJ McCollum: <negotiates deal that makes trades much more difficult>

    CJ McCollum: <gets traded twice>

  20. All the guys on the trade block are underperforming the value of their contracts to such an insane degree that they are anchors dragging their team into deep water. Unless teams want to exchange problems, there aren’t going to be deals.

    The only one who doesn’t meet this criteria is Giannis, and for him to be traded would require another superstar going back to Milwaukee because no team can absorb his contract via package and still have a viable team.

  22. The era of analytics will ruin the trade market. You won’t have dumb GM’s making “intuitive” moves when all trades will be run through a spreadsheet/modelled.

  25. This is going to be such an underwhelming deadline and its for the absolutely must mundane reason

    The new CBA. Salary matching as made making trades much more difficult and teams have the 2nd apron to worry about as well which also prevents teams from making big splashes in FA

  26. Now you know how Bulls fans have been feeling for years! “ Do something…. make the team better FFS Arturas!!!! “…but it’s never worked. Still the same mid ass team we always are for 5 years in a row

  28. Stupid new CBA. Let me get excited about a team trading their 5th best starter for 8 and 9 rotation bench guys already!!!

  32. Okay, you, maybe it’s time for Golden state to let Curry go, rebuild the whole thing. Send him off to Detroit, I guess maybe they would take him./s

  42. Owners wanted to limit player mobility and punish other owners who handed out max contracts. Well. With the apron restrictions, they got what they wanted…

  43. GMs have zero leash now they’ll get fired for basically anything negative at all so they don’t do anything. Everyone wants teams to make moves but these are people with their jobs on the line. If they are hesitant about it, it’ll take an ownership directive to make it happen.

    The Atlanta trade was able to happen quick because Saleh is in his first year and the trade market is bad.

    Kleiman is not trading Ja without a good value return. He’s been there for 10 years and GM for almost 7 of those. Guaranteed he’s fired if it’s anything less than stellar, even after considering the bad market.

  45. I listen to this on Apple Podcasts so I don’t usually see the video. I really thought Gilbert was in there looking homeless the way Nick was talking this episode

  46. …once again, 2 trades in December last year. 2 trades in January last year. 20+ trades in the 6 days of February.

    There is not a dearth of trades. There is no “waiting for Giannis.” That is just clickbait and narrative driven drivel.

    More than likely, there are plenty of trades that are agreed upon in principle but teams are waiting for the deadline in case a major trade shakes something loose. Similar to Charlotte trying to pounce on the Luka trade aftermath and unload Mark Williams.

  48. Does anyone genuinely care what Gilbert has to say? I cannot fathom why he has a platform.

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