The last Windy sentence of this clip is most worrisome from Heat standpoint. Nets have 6 first rounders available from other teams. Mitchell (born 35 miles from Brooklyn) has NEVER tried to force his way to Heat or Knicks or any one particular team.
The last Windy sentence of this clip is most worrisome from Heat standpoint. Nets have 6 first rounders available from other teams. Mitchell (born 35 miles from Brooklyn) has NEVER tried to force his way to Heat or Knicks or any one particular team. https://t.co/OLxvPrjB2B
— Barry Jackson (@flasportsbuzz) May 15, 2024
by BatmanSwift99
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Nets are brainless if they trade for him. Bringing up their number of picks just seems like mr. 14 = Mitchell being salty
If Mitchell wants to win, he won’t ask for Brooklyn. At that point, just stay in Cleveland. I’m not sure we have the assets to get him, but I just can’t see him OKing the trade to Brooklyn unless he’s fine with being a mid team for the duration of the contract.
The Crazy in me says Lakers try to do a sign and trade with LeBron to go back to Cleveland with Bronny. No idea how feasible it is, but wild ass scenario.
I feel like Brooklyn (who just watched their own pick from the Harden trade climb up to 3rd and go to Houston) will clutch their pearls/ remaining picks for the next few seasons.
Lakers seem like a bigger threat to acquire Mitchell, given they have 3 picks to trade, an old-ass LeBron and an injury prone Anthony Davis in his 30s.
Pat is not going to want to trade Jovic or Jaquez so you all need to honestly tame this Mitchell expectation now. It’s not happening.
It’s only “worrisome” if you’re a moron who likes smacking their head against a wall every offseason and thinks we’re getting Donovan Mitchell.
Offer Jimmy. Throw in a pick if necessary. If it isn’t good enough then it isn’t good enough.Â
Nets just lost out on third overall. Even the most pessimistic heat fan knows that Brooklyn isn’t going to be that braindead to trade for him. Plus, Mitchell suffered carrying a mediocre Cavs team. Why would he want to go to basketball hell just to satisfy his ego? This is a nothing burger.
Doesn’t guarantee anything with Mitchell cause Cavs can play games like Blazers, but this eliminates the Nets.
Pat finna offer one FRP, one tyler zerro, and a gallon of milk.
It don’t matter even if tries to force his way his way here, the Cavs will be looking for the best return and it’s a bunch of teams who could outbid us.
No way the Cavs trade Mitchell for just picks they want bridges and the nets won’t trade bridges
Regardless of whether him coming here is realistic, Nets aren’t going after a star.
All the offseason speculation leads to angst. Until any deal is officially announced via credible sources or officially, that’s all that matters.
The Heat can try their best and avoid major bullets, like Beal.
On the flip side, then you can also deal with Cronins of the world who simply don’t want to facilitate deals to a franchise player’s preferred destinations.
Our best offer would be just herro+jjj+2 picks and pick swap, realistically. Not enough to out bid lakers. In this case since Mitchell has only 1 year left on his contract he has a lot of leverage, but we’ve seen how it can still go the other way.
At this point its whatever, this current heat team at where it is rn, even if we get a starter of bam jovic jimmy duncan mitchell, it still might not be enough beating Denver, we still need a solid back up big and a proper 6th man. A solid guard, a wing and a big PLUS that starting 5 makes us a true contender caliber team, we dont even have half of that
In herro, they trust
We should stay away from Mitchell or KD. This will be like that Dame chase again. Nope.
As long as they don’t land with the Bucks, I’m cool.
What they should instead do, is try to find 2 way (defense/offense) players to fill the SG spot and the 4.
Alex Caruso, not Mitchell should be our main target.
That makes the backcourt Rozier/Caruso.
I still don’t know which big could run with Bam tho.
Caruso at 2 is the perfect target, not Mitchell.
But I won’t give up Herro for just Caruso tho.
Hero should be traded for picks, and reroute them to another trade.
Cavs want picks over playable dudes now? That will be the deciding factor. Cause Herro Rozier Jaime are all rotation dudes RIGHT NOE. Plus 3 picks.
just putting it out there that Donovan Mitchell forcing his way to Brooklyn would be one of the worst decisions any star-level player has ever made with their prime, and i’m sure he’s acutely aware of that
he’s making $34.1m next year. Nets have to swap salary for him. Cleveland’s not gonna take Ben’s $40m expiring as the key piece in a Spida deal, so you’re gutting the only thing Brooklyn has going for it, which is depth. Spida’s opting out of his PO in 2026, so you’ve got *one year* of him on team-friendly money for his production before he gets a Supermax and fucks the cap table completely. and then, on top of that, Brooklyn’s picks are outrageously valuable. it’s hard to believe they’d be all-in on him when there’s a really good chance he’d up sticks and disappear in the offseason pre-extension if they didn’t do everything right
he’d have to be *really* confident in Brooklyn’s ability to build a crazy team around him in 2026, because next year is completely forfeit for doing anything valuable with his time
and then, on the other hand, he surely understands being traded to Miami is his only route here. we’re never going to be in a position to sign him with both Bam and Jimmy rostered. if he really *does* ever want to play in Miami, it’s now or never, and so it all hinges on that
2020 bubble run, 2022 and 2023 playoff runs > 6frps
Miami > Brooklyn and I like Brooklyn
The play is to draft Bronny in the first round (before Cleveland can draft him). Then trade him and Tyler (assuming Cleveland had an agreement with LeBron) for Mitchell.
If Mitchell simply says I won’t re-sign with any other team but the Heat that gives us a pretty solid chance. This is more comparable to the way the Lakers got AD than the Dame situation. No team would be willing to risk it all for him to just walk.
I’m not falling for engagement farming shit this year. Sorry, Barry.
Brooklyn is a Blackhole
I used to really enjoy Barry because it always seemed like he was one of the few reporters that had sources inside the Heat’s FO. Lately he has been as histrionic as the fans on social media. Perhaps that is his intention to ramp up engagement. If so, he is just being cynical douchebag.
Getting someone like Mitchell is incredibly unlikely. Every rational person here already knows that.