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Bizarre trade involving the Pacers proposed after Draymond Green turmoil
In yet one more entry to the lengthy and exhaustive record of conjured commerce proposals involving the Indiana Pacers, one analyst hashed out a three-team commerce involving the Blue and Gold in gentle of the latest Draymond Inexperienced turmoil.
On a latest episode of The Lowe Submit podcast, Invoice Simmons propounded a somewhat weird commerce between the Pacers, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Golden State Warriors, who are actually at sixes and sevens and going through uncertainty regardless of Inexperienced publicly apologizing for the altercation.
Nevertheless, the proposal is maybe one in every of, if not the worst commerce thought floated round since Indiana was a scorching commodity on the rumor mill.
Invoice Simmons suggests a weird three-team deal involving the Indiana Pacers
Pacers Get
G Russell Westbrook
Warriors Get
C Myles Turner
Lakers Get
F Draymond Inexperienced
On this comical proposal, the Indiana Pacers obtain Russell Westbrook from the Lakers, which can purchase Inexperienced whereas the Warriors get Myles Turner in return.
The outright lack of any compensatory aspect on this deal in any form, manner, or kind already makes this an unimaginable deal. In spite of everything, the Pacers have made it abundantly clear that any commerce state of affairs involving Westbrook being despatched to the Circle Metropolis would come at a steep value by means of unprotected first-round picks (or on this case with out Buddy Hield, a single first-rounder).
Therefore, whereas the framework of this proposal makes contractual sense, given that every one three are surefire flight dangers as issues presently stand, the actual fact that Indiana is the one doing the favor blurs away any phantasm of relative equality right here.
Finally, it should be emphasised that Indiana won’t be fascinated with transacting just for the sake of permitting narratives to fully be fleshed out. The defending champs could also be in a little bit of a disarray, however the Lakers’ try to show the scenario to their benefit will certainly not come on the expense of the Pacers.