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    Overnight from Shams:

    The Cleveland Cavaliers are trading De’Andre Hunter to the Sacramento Kings for Dennis Schroder and Keon Ellis, sources tell ESPN. The three-team deal includes the Chicago Bulls acquiring Kings forward Dario Saric and two future second-round picks.

    The Bulls are waiving guard Jevon Carter to create space for Saric, sources said. They emerged as a third team and received assets to consummate the trade.

    Someone has to explain this trade for me from the Kings perspective . I thought Ellis was good right? Numbers are down this year but he’s been good to start his career. They are salary dumping Schroder who they just signed?

    I guess Keon was a free agent?

    Great win for Carlos. Fastest ever to the career slam. Quite an achievement, quite well deserved.

    Pretty annoyed that the Cavs got Ellis. I was hoping the Knicks would get him, though I suppose there’s history with Brown. The Cavs get better by not playing Hunter, and they get two playable guys instead. Kings are so bad at this.

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    Nice little trade for the Cavs.

    Those are exactly the kinds of moves Leon could create the flexibility to make by trading KAT for smaller pieces.

    It’s myopic to keep seeing the immediate return for KAT as the final return. Instead of trying to turn the whole damn team into Giannis, we can turn KAT into 4 good players if we do it right.

    Seems like a pretty basic trade of two underperforming assets. Kings have an extra year of control on Hunter. Cavs save some dollars.

    G’mornin’, guys. Right now I’m worried more about the Sixers (even without George) and Embiid scoring close to 40 on the regular with Maxey and Edgecombe supporting him than I am about the Cavs.

    ellis has probably become slightly over-hyped thanks to the dumb-team hates him halo, but they definitely screwed up by not trading him for good draft value last year before he was ufa. he’s a tough man defender and has shot well, but i would take both plucky guards they gifted to toronto (mitchell and shead) over him. he takes weird risks on defense and has zero court vision but also doesn’t get off the ball as quickly as you’d like from a shoot only player. the schroder contract seemed inexplicable at the time, unless you explain by saying it was entirely based on him playing well in round 1 against us. it looks even worse now, as he’s played exactly as expected but still had to get salary dumped months later. though you did get to seem him slap luka and that’s worth something.

    speaking of the dumb team hates him halo, someone should try to steal devin carter for ~free. he’s 23 and has been pretty terrible, but he’s only played 500 jagged minutes and i think he’s the sort of player with a weird combination of traits that might take a minute to figure out who he has to be to be effective if he’s not a head case. he seems like he’s on pace for a fourth year option decline.

    Hubert, I’m curious how you’d turn KAT into 4 rotation players (serious question).

    In this scenario, would you send Hart back to the bench and try a JB/Mikal/OG/pf/c lineup or keep the current lineup but add a defensive center?

    Essentially I’m asking: if you could add any 4 players in the league regardless of team into KAT’s contract space, who would you pick to fit around our current players?

    I’m with you, ess. And turning KAT into 4 useful players doesn’t seem easy to me, maybe 2 ou 3 would be possible, 4 i don’t know how we could do it. But i’d advocate for Hubert the GM, if that is possible. 😀

    The great Scott Perry made that trade for the Kings

    Is there a plan in Sacramento? I don’t see it…

    @NateDuncanNBA

    Scott Perry’s 3 main free agent signings while in charge of the Kings have all had zero impact for them and lasted almost no time with the team before being dumped or sent home: Dennis Schröder, George Hill, and Zach Randolph

    Is there a plan in Sacramento? I don’t see it…

    This draft seems good and right now they have the number 1 pick. Will they pick the correct player though …

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    So tonight will (probably) be the last Lebron game at MSG? What an outstanding career!

    I don’t think so . He will suit up for the Cavs and retire after next season

    I think De’Andre Hunter gives the Kings another reasonable wing who can defend reasonably and also score some. Those players aren’t easy to get. Cleveland has a much better roster than the Kings and Hunter wasn’t getting much playing time there. He’ll probably get more playing time and look better on the Kings because of it. It kind of reminds of Chicago trading for Giddey. It wasn’t a great deal for Chicago in terms of what they gave and what they got. But Giddey filled a need, got much more playing time than he would have in OKC, and put up better numbers than he had before.

    If the Kings were smart, the plan would be banking on Hunter having a bounce back season so they can move him next year for even more draft assets. However, the Kings are not smart.

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    I always felt that Hunter was a really good player waiting to happen, but his injury issues kind of blew up his potential. I still remember him being a factor in the 2021 Trae Young playoff loss. Guess the Cavs were hoping for the same thing, and now the Kings.

    I do think the Cavs improved with this trade, but mostly because of Schroder, who isn’t great but plays with physicality and an edge. Don’t expect much from Ellis, doubt that he’s an upgrade over Hunter, but we’ll see.

    Ellis is a career 41% three point shooter so it seemed weird to me. Thanks for the explanation PT.

    If you criticize the media it’s about 80% you are right and 80% to be popular. That was hysterical.

    Wait, this is the guy who beat his wife and mother of his big-headed baby, right? I guess the anger management classes wore off.

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    Kings fans are unhappy but resigned to the trade because they basically think it is King’s management as usual. Obviously it hurts they signed Schroeder and then had to fix it six months later. I want to see Perry do well, but when you have to squint to see the silver lining it’s not a good sign.

    Hubert, please explain why you think we should trade our OTHER ALL-STAR for a group of journeymen…

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