(Translator’s note: The author of this article is the well-known American media TA reporter Zach Harper, the content of this article does not represent the translator and the platform’s views)
At this moment, the biggest domino in the trading market in 2023 has been pushed down. Sun had intended to get Owen before, but failed to do so. A few days after sending Owen to Lone Ranger, Sean Max finally decided to make a more explosive deal with James Jones. According to the famous records Shams, Durant was sent to the Sun basketable nets to get four first-round signatures, including micalar bridges, Claude, Cameron Johnson.
According to ESPN, TJ-Warren will also be sent to Phoenix, and basketable nets was compensated by the selection of picks in 2028.
This is the biggest deal we can expect before the deadline. The Sun sent out so many picks and high-level young people, but the reward they got was Kevin Durant. This is the first operation of Matt Ishbia, the new boss of the team. His ambition is full. What he wants is very clear, that is, to make the sun into an undisputed team of great and powerful.
Now let’s take out the correction pen and make a score for both sides of this transaction.
Sun: Kevin Durant, TJ-Warren
Transaction rating: A-
Whether in scale or shock, this deal is ten times larger than when the sun got Paul a few years ago. As long as there is no health problem, Durant is still playing MVP-level basketball. Yes, he is 34 years old this year, but when he stepped on the court, he did not look like 34 at all. He is a walking and historical scoring machine. When he wanted to score, no one could stop him.
The opponent can only hope that Durant is tired and needs a rest, otherwise he can only pray that Durant’s teammates can’t give him any support at all. Kevin’s health problem is really worrying. For two consecutive years, he missed many matches because of knee injury. In the past three and a half seasons, Durant has missed 151 games in total, and now he is still recuperating, and the number of absent games is still increasing. But as I said before, as long as he can play, he is a monster.
The combination of Durant and Booker can only be described with no solution. Booker also played an MVP performance before the injury this season. Now he has just returned and looks quite good. In the past few years, Booker’s performance in Phoenix is commendable. His combination with Paul complement each other. Both advance and retreat regularly, he can provide strength when defense is needed. When the team needs someone to take over the game, he also took it seriously. Different from the sun in the past, now this team has already carried bigger stakes and expectations, and Booker has not failed to live up to expectations. He is on the way to grow into a perfect player.
Now imagine what he and Durant can do together? Their opponents will fall into extreme panic.
People may worry about Paul’s state and how much more he can play. His performance in the start stage of this season is indeed not very smooth, and he has recovered slightly recently, but it is indeed a part that needs to be worried. Earlier this week, it was reported that the sun was willing to exchange the veteran for Owen, which proved that Phoenix’s management also had the same concerns.
But Paul is Paul. Now he only needs to straighten out his position and defend well. When the team’s dual core encounters bag clip, he can hit the vacant shot. Compared with the big bags in the past, his work will become much easier in the future. Theoretically, this should not be a problem for Paul, even if he is slower than when he was young.
Another problem is that after the three flanking generals were sent away, the depth of the rotation of the sun suddenly shrunk. They need players like Shamet, Craig, Damien Lee and TJ Warren to contribute to make the rotation team not a weakness.
Sun new boss Matt Ishbia
For this transaction, we can find out such or such details to criticize, but what I want to emphasize is! The name Phoenix just got through trading is — Kevin! Durant!
The only thing that prevented me from giving A + rating for this deal was Durant’s recent health problems and A lot of strong rotation in order to get A super star. I hope Paul can get back to his state in the future and don’t always look so tired as before. Durant, Booker and Paul, the three top stars, plus the Inside Elton, believe that solar energy uses the strength of stars to overcome the problem of insufficient depth of rotation. The operation of James Jones and the sun was incredible, and the fate of this team was completely changed.
Basketable nets: mikalbridge, Cameron Johnson, Jay Claude, 2023, 2025, 2027, 2029 unprotected first round signing, 2028 selection rights swap
Transaction rating: B-
My goodness, in this day full of crazy deals, let us all take a breath first. This is really an incredible turning point. At this time last week, although the wounded soldiers were full of camps, basketable nets actually looked good. They ranked fourth in the east and were quietly waiting for Durant’s return from injury to lead the team to hit the championship. But as if the world changed overnight, Owen was sent to Dallas less than 48 hours after applying for a deal last week. Today Max also sent Durant to Phoenix.
How to comment? Basketable nets seems to have made up his mind to completely get out of the failure of Carey Durant era and try his best to retrieve some future assets sent out when he got Harden. By the way, Harden’s deal made me feel like it was 100 years ago.
But in fact, it’s only been two years.
In basketable nets, they got four unprotected first-round signatures from the sun in 2023, 2025, 2027 and 2029. In addition, they also got the right to exchange picks in 2028. Under the current rules, this is the maximum return you can expect in a transaction. Even crazier, Jazz also got these returns from the Gobel deal.
Bridges is a very good young player and one of the best two-way players in the league today. On the defensive side, he really has the ability to lock up the opponent’s scorer. Johnson is one of the best shooters in the league. The Sun has given him extreme Trust. He is the reason why the team dares to let Claude completely DNP. Claude is a pretty good 3D player with the ability to defend multiple positions. Judging from the current news, maybe basketable Nets hope to exchange some assets with him before the deadline, and of course, it is also possible to leave Claude to ensure the team’s competitiveness, after all, the future of basketable nets is not entirely in your own hands.
When Sean Marks took over basketable nets, it was a mess. Billy King, the former general manager, lost his underpants in the game with Danny Ange, while sending away all the future, they did not exchange back any achievements.
Now Max has a chance to rebuild this team. He has the first round of Dallas signing in exchange for Owen, and a bunch of first round signing from Phoenix. All these future assets are valuable, but they certainly have a lot to deal with before basketable nets is satisfied with their operations.
By the way, Rockets must like this deal very much, because the current state of basketable nets also seems to bring Houston a very bright future.
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