Have y’all heard of the new Brandon Ingram to hawks for dejounte Murray? Dejounte Murray averaging 22 points, 7 assist, and 6 rebounds while Brandon Ingram averaged 20 points, 5 assist, and 5 rebounds. I think this is a pretty good trade because dejounte Murray still got 10 years left while averaging more than Brandon Ingram in each category.
Y’all think this trade can happen and is it a good idea?
by Soft_Temporary_6845
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Talent comparisons aside, how does Murray even fit on this team? One of the reasons we want to trade Ingram is to give Trey more of an opportunity as a starter. So BI should only be traded for a center or packaged with CJ for a better PG.
Ehhh I mean I don’t think it’d be a disaster, but tough to know if it’d really move the needle. DJ is a slightly better fit and more willing to take 3s, and would save some money that we might be able to use to keep Naji or upgrade the 5. But he’s also as (relatively) ball-dominant as BI, and not exactly a deadeye shooter. He’s also like the same age as BI, so not sure what the 10 years stuff is about. Other thing is I don’t really know how it works unless we’re moving CJ to the bench, which I don’t think would be the worst thing, but might get complicated.
Bruh BI is ten times better than Murray.
Feels like a lateral move
I guess people don’t know that Dejounte is a year OLDER than Ingram, huh
I’m still rockin his jersey either way
This is not us getting better. Hawks fans say he doesn’t try on defense anymore which would make sense since his last defensive team was in 2018
How about adding in Okongwu and us adding in someone or something else to make it fair for both sides?
this is not the way.
Ingram is making $36m next season. Murray is making $25m. The Hawks are over the cap because of the inflated salaries of De’Andre Hunter and Clint Capela. Both are around $22m.
The easiest trade would be Murray/Capela ($47,764,879) for Ingram/Nance ($47,221,200). More difficult trades would involve a 3rd team or a lot more players. Capela and Nance both have 1 year left on their contracts.
So we’re not locked into Capela long-term, and the Hawks aren’t blocking the bath for their Sarr/Okongwu/Johnson front-court rotation. We’d still need to draft a big though because Capela can’t stretch the court and can’t close out games with his bad FT shooting.
Pels need to say no to Murray
If people are concerned about BI’s fit, let me introduce you to a player that is even worse off ball, not a good 3p shooter, and hasn’t played really good defense in years.
Pelicans need to be thinking of guards like Suggs, Cade, Sexton, Garland, guys that can create offense and also play off Zion’s gravity hitting motion threes.
Suggs would actually be the homerun IMO. Young up and coming two-way guard that can play on and off ball.
Murray is actually trash and this would hurt us. He would not mesh with our players’ style. There’s a reason why the sub has (for the most part) shut down rumors of him here on multiple occasions since the start of 2024