#SLOE: People's Basketball Sim League

Heading towards the deadline, what trades make sense to you?
Who should be buying?
Who should be selling?
Who should be moving?
If you can, propose a legal trade and explain why it makes sense for each team.
Bonus: +1 point If the trade gets processed.

Rules: 1 point if you give thoughtful answers, which I will award after the timer ends for responses. The timer ends for responses at the moment the corresponding week's Sim is run.

Note: Use approximately 5 sentences as your bare minimum for 1 point. If you write 3 long, complex sentences, you'll still get a point. If you write 5, 3 word sentences, you will not get a point. Don't @ me.

Due: Due by the deadline for sim 7

Mike Lowry wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 12:03 am Heading towards the deadline, what trades make sense to you?
Who should be buying?
Who should be selling?
Who should be moving?

In my head, there are 5 playoff locks in the East (Bucks, Bullets, Nets, Bulls, Cavaliers) and five in the West (Kings, Jazz, Warriors, Lakers, Blazers). There are two "borderline" teams in the West (Clippers, Sonics) because of how tough the conference is. There are several Eastern teams vying for the #6 spot but none of them is going to be able to make a deep run.

So trades that make sense to me are, generally, teams named above "buying" and teams not named above "selling," especially if you've got a 30+ year old on an expiring contract; if that player isn't leading you to the playoffs now, you don't have time to build around him. However, I think the problem with that is that teams gunning for a title know that player isn't a long-term solution either and aren't willing to give up a ton for that player, so perhaps a better candidate to sell would be a star player signed to a longer contract (Dan Roundfield of the Hawks comes to mind).

As far as proposing a legal trade, I'm going to look at the Bulls, who have quite a bit of cap space (just over half a mill), a ton of picks, some highly-paid, redundant wings, and clearly-defined "want" - they want another big. The 76ers have a good big man that fits right into that half-mill salary slot in Jack Sikma; I can see the 76ers asking for a couple of future-facing assets in return; let's say Craig Hodges and a couple of first-round draft picks for Sikma. The 76ers get younger and don't have to pay Jack while the Bulls get their desired boost in front-court depth.

Heading towards the deadline, what trades make sense to you?
Who should be buying?
Who should be selling?
Who should be moving?
If you can, propose a legal trade and explain why it makes sense for each team.

great questions! i have no answers lol

seriously though, the lakers should be shopping their PGs aggressively. Take back a serviceable PF, a g/g. Maybe a few points or a shitty pick if they feel salty about it. But a talented roster like theirs shouldn't be 4-6 in their last 10 with Magic on their team. Just ridiculous!

I think the Lakers should be buying, obviously. I think the Nets or Bullets could be buyers, but I don't know that either team has much capital for buying.

The Knicks and 76ers could look to sell. I think both teams have underperformed on their season's expectations thus far. Might be time to pack it in and tank for a lotto spot.

A legal trade... hmm... well, it's legal if nothing else! haha

Warriors send
Robert Parish

Lakers send
Magic Johnson
some vet min bum

Win win. I hope the Lakers downward trend continues!

My buyers are the Bulls, Nets, and me.
I know the Bucks look dominant and imposing, but the East as a whole is fairly wide open outside of that.
So if any of us could land a big impact deal, I think it would separate us into the 2 spot, and give us an outside chance of knocking off the Bucks for a chance at the ship.
My sellers are most certainly the Clippers, Pacers, and Lakers, for very different reasons.

The Clippers, who are over the cap by half a ticket, are currently sitting 3 games outside the playoffs 24 and 21.
Their best players are Theus and Higgins, but they already overpaid Edwards, Ballard, and Micheaux.
If they don't unload 1 or all of those contracts trouble is looming.

The Pacers caught some bad luck with injuries, and made some strategic signings to compete, that are now unnecessary.
To me they have the greatest asset on the market in Adrian Dantley, who should bring them back a nice package, they cut their way out of the tax, but it doesn't position them well drag this build out.

The Lakers should sell the farm and build around young prospects. Donaldson especially could get him a solid prospect in return. Then sell Nixon, or Davis, and Wilkes, WBF for pennies on the dollar for the flexibility to build around Magic, rather than trying to fit him into a bad build.

My trade that should happen is Donaldson for Rambis and Lucas from Portland.
You guys should get on that right away.

Heading towards the deadline, what trades make sense to you?
A trade that makes sense to me is the Cavaliers trading for a guard. They still need more pieces after that to really be able to compete but getting a guard would help them out tremendously this season. But if they can get a young, solid guard on a long term deal, it would make the offseason easier for them

Who should be buying?
Myself and the Nets should be buying. Only problem with my team is that I don't have much to offer so I'm kinda stuck until next season rolls around. Knicks are also another team that could be buying if they really wanted to try and make a push

Who should be selling?
76ers should be selling, but they won't. Even though they have some talent they clearly aren't doing anything with it. They should (if they actually wanted to take it seriously again) blow it up, accumulate points/picks, and go into a full rebuild mode.

Who should be moving?
The Bulls could easily move on from one of their guards to get a solid big man, maybe even some points too. They have too many guards.

Heading towards the deadline, what trades make sense to you?
Who should be buying?
Who should be selling?
Who should be moving?
If you can, propose a legal trade and explain why it makes sense for each team.
Bonus: +1 point If the trade gets processed.

- What trades make sense? Well I would say there are some fringe playoff teams in the East that are not going to be in the lotto. If I were them, I'd be looking at these lotto bound teams and try to get a deal done for a stud they are trying to jettison.
- Who should the buyers be? The bottom of the west and current 7/8 seeds in the east.
- Who should be selling? Rockets should've been selling for a long time. Someone will pay for bird. Let him fly, bro.
- Who should be moving? See above. Also anyone on the Hawks.

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