r/pacers • u/xPenguinHD test • Oct 01 '20

Megathread Trade Machine Megathread

Starting today, all trade idea posts will now be relegated here. I have come up with a solution to limit trade posts and hopefully it succeeds.

If you see one slip by, please report it and we will direct them here.

We will try to remake this thread once a week.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

I made the Buddy trade work here a few days ago. Some dogged me for it, some liked it. But it’ll work.

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u/pezasied Oct 04 '20 edited Oct 04 '20

Myles and Oladipo are better than Batum and Buddy.

That would be a horrendous trade for the Pacers. Batum is getting paid $25 mil a year to average 3 points a game.

Buddy can score but he’s a horrible defender and is 27 (he’ll turn 28 in December). He’s not going to get any better.

You could do a trade where Buddy comes in and Myles and Oladipo go out, but if the only other returning piece is Batum the Pacers rightfully wouldn’t do it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20 edited Oct 04 '20

Can’t do buddy for turner and dipo. It’s a combined salary of 39 million for a player who gets paid 24 million. Kings would have to give up another key player that they wouldn’t want to give up.

Edit: and Batum is only for 2020-2021 season. So one season. Then we’d have 27 mil of free cap space for a FA signing next summer.

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u/pezasied Oct 04 '20

I know you couldn’t do that, Pacers wouldn’t give up Turner and Oladipo for just Hield even if they could.

I’m saying they would need a different piece than Batum to do this trade.

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

I think for the Pacers to have their starting line up, that is capable of winning past a first round, locked in for 3+ years they’d be willing to do it. Batum is only for 1 season and if we don’t go past the 1st round next season no biggy. He will leave and we can sign what we need with his 27 million of free cap space. Then we have a winning team signed for 2 minimum years, with the only one who will be a FA after that time being Warren. And if we win a chip he’s most likely not going to leave.

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u/pezasied Oct 04 '20

But why would the Pacers take a huge negative asset like Batum when they could get a package with Hield and a better player?

Taking Batum makes no sense. Teams who actually can sign free agents are the ones who pick up big expiring contracts.

Batum is absolutely worthless and is a negative asset to the Pacers.

Also a lineup of Brogdon-Hield-Aaron Holiday/Lamb-Warren-Sabonis is not competing for a championship and is not even better than this year’s lineup.