Trade Utah-Minnesota

[Thecliff]

  Utah & Minnesota have agreed on trade

 Utah to trade SF Mikal Bridges $3.2M (2022)

 Minnesota to trade PF Tristan Thompson  $2.5M (2021)

Utah has a lineup with to many SG and needs another PF/C to compete in league. Minnesota to confer.

[DMarch47]

Timberwolves agree to this trade as we look at youth movement and the fact that Brudges is 5 years younger than Thompson.

 

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[WizKidFromSpace]

  Fairly straightforward. I like Bridges a lot more personally, but Utah needed big men.

[WestCoastExpress]

I’m going to throw out the first veto on this one.

No hard feelings to either side.


My reasoning is this:

- Bridges is a lot younger and has a ton of upside from what I see, while Thimpson’s value will literally never get higher than it is right now, given he’s one of a few bigs that are healthy in CLE and especially due to Love is out. He won’t grab that many rebounds and get that many touches when Love is healthy

- Thompson was literally just signed in FA. Utah could have just bid on Thompson in FA and got him for free, rather than having to give up and young up and coming player

- If, and big IF... Utah was in a strong position to make playoffs and contend, this deal would make a lot more sense. However, Htah is 0-4 so far and has already traded away their best player at the time, Brandon Ingram. If Utah was in a playoff spot or I though they had a shot at marking playoffs, then maybe adding TT makes a little sense.
For me, it’s more of a rebuild and looking to next year type of team, in which case swapping Bridges for TT makes zero sense. Positionallu they could figure all that out in the off-season and make roster moves at that time



Again, zero hard feelings to either side.
I just done see a legit reasoning for making the trade for a winless 0-4 Utah squad.

 

[Brent]

 

Another trade in the long list of questionable trades in BoD.  It's very hard to gauge the value of players with the unique (contract) rule set.  Big men normally hit their prime around 27/28 so TT is just hitting his prime and is on a good contract for a double/double guy.  It helps that the real Cavs are garbage so he'll get his stats for the foreseeable future. 

Bridges has more value going forward, but based on the current players production this trade is passable. 

[Vik]

I've got no real issue with player for player given how well Thompson has played this year, I do agree the major factor that makes the deal a little tough to approve is that Thompson could have been won as FA by Utah (I guess maybe they would have got in a bidding war and he might have went for too much). Either way, after some though I don't see this it a big enough issue so

 

[indiansnation]

I have always have said sense day one if 2 owners agree to a trade as long as it isn't collusion going on then I'm ok with teams trading. Not sure why everyone is so high on TT because only reason he is actually playing good is because of love being injured but that's just my opinion. I kinda agree with the previous 2 owners voting on trade. I think over all I think bridges will be a better player overall but that's just me. Ill  :iatp. Because I don't feel that this trade is unfair to with owner

[Greg S]

 

[Vik]

All tc memembers voted and deal passes 

I'll update later today.

Cliff, via PM I know you want Thompson on active so just let me know who you will send to inactive