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If you are Danny do you make this trade?

  • November 11, 2024


Fellow Jazz fan here – not OKC.

It was just announced that Chet could miss a significant number of games on account of a hip injury (https://x.com/ShamsCharania/status/1855857971743346889). They aren't going to be reevaluating him for minimum 8-10 weeks. OKC is in their prime and will miss his defensive presence greatly.

There has been a lot of chatter this year about possibly moving Walker. For the record I love Walker and think he has a bright future. I also think that center is probably the easiest (probably the wrong word) position to fill.

If you are Danny do you consider this trade? Note the Philly pick here is top 6 protected, however OKC also owns a 2025 pick from us that is top 10 protected (if it falls outside of that it defers to 2026 with top 8 protections).

It would be possible to have those protections removed if OKC traded it back to the Jazz and the league approved, thus giving us our own pick for the 2025 draft back but without any protections. Obviously the idea behind this would be to increase the odds of drafting Flagg or another top talent in a very good 2025 draft class.

Thoughts?

9 comments

  1. Personally, if Flagg is good as people are anticipating, and considering we’ve never once landed the number 1 overall pick – if the league agreed to remove those protections I would lean strongly towards doing it. 2 unprotected top 10 picks could be huge for a Jazz team that might bottom out. Not entirely sure I’d agree if it was the top 6 protected Philly pick though.

  3. We lack size, we have too many guards and forwards. I would hold out for more and even so I would think hard on it

  5. If Chet is out, frankly may be worth kicking the tires on a John Collins deal. No idea what salaries would be involved but they could use him, and we are obviously gigatanking.

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