Trade Grab Bag 6: Jrue Holiday, LaMarcus Aldridge, and Dray

May have to disinfect the comment section after this one

Why Jrue?

Tim Kawakami @timkawakami

From yesterday, @anthonyVslater looks at the Warriors, Lakers and Clippers' positioning or possibilities in the Jrue Holiday trade market (coincidentally one of my favorite players):

theathletic.comDo the Warriors, Lakers or Clippers make sense as a Jrue Holiday destination?Holiday would fit with all three West contenders, but it’s hard to put together logical deals for any of the three teams with New Orleans.

Anthony Slater in the Athletic says:

You want him on the ball, playmaking out of the pick-and-roll? Sure. He’s capable. He ran 402 pick-and-rolls last season and was also decently efficient in isolation. You need him to shift off ball, still affecting the scoreboard while throttling down his usage? No problem. He made 36 percent of his 144 catch-and-shoot 3s last season and sporadically slashes to success (47 points on 38 cuts, per Synergy).

Then you shift to defense and the value rises higher. Damian Lillard called him the league’s best guard defender. Andre Iguodala said, when Holiday defended Steph Curry and Kevin Durant effectively in the same playoff series, he was convinced that Holiday was among the league’s elite. Multi-positional plus-level defenders have never been more coveted than they are now.

We already looked at one posed Jrue Holiday trade in Trade Grab Bag 5. Well here are a couple more trades from the Slater piece.

6.1. Taking It To The Bridge

This is a way to get around the problem that Jrue does not fit in the Trade Exception.

Eric Apricot @EricApricot

Trade Grab Bag 6.1. GSW gets Jrue Holiday NOP gets #2 Kevon Looney X where X = Rudy Gay ($14M) or James Johnson ($16M) acquired into TPE for protected pick as salary dump. (from Anthony Slater) Who says no?

6.2. I Hesitate To Even Type This, Knowing the Crapstorm Coming In The Comments But

Eric Apricot @EricApricot

Trade Grab Bag 6.2. GSW gets Jrue Holiday 2021 NOP 1st, lottery protected NOP gets Draymond Green #2 (kinda from Slater) Who says no?

6.3. And Since We Already Opened The Gates Of Sludge

News 4 San Antonio @News4SA

On ESPN's Lowe's report on rumblings of a Warriors-Spurs deal news4sanantonio.com/sports/content… #nba #gospursgo

news4sanantonio.comOn ESPN’s Lowe’s report on rumblings of a Warriors-Spurs dealWith the 2020 NBA offseason finally upon us as the NBA Player’s Association and Owners come to an agreement on a late December start to the 2020-21 season, the trade talks are ramping up. On The Lowe Post Podcast, host Zach Lowe mentioned he heard from “someone within the league” …

Eric Apricot @EricApricot

Trade Grab Bag 6.3. GSW gets LaMarcus Aldridge #11 SAS gets Draymond Green #2 Who says no?

Plus this hot fix since people hate the Zach Lowe original rumor.

Eric Apricot @EricApricot

Trade Grab Bag 6.3.1 Hotfix for 6.3 since people hate Zach Lowe's rumor GSW gets LaMarcus Aldridge 2021 SAS 1st, Top 5 protected #11 SAS gets Draymond Green #2

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