What could the Utah Jazz get if they trade Lauri Markkanen?

What could the Utah Jazz get if they trade Lauri Markkanen?

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Steph Curry is not being traded, right? So you have to take into some realism and I can make an argument that he’s the best player legitimately available. [Music] Is Giannis available? I don’t know that he is. I would put that out there. But I get your point. He’s there there aren’t going to be many pieces as valuable as him. He’s in his prime. He’s tall. He’s long. He can shoot the ball really well. Yeah. That seems to be the player that everybody wants. See, Giannis is going to be too much. So that’s why I get the point Giannis is better than market. And I’m not arguing that. But the cost for Giannis is going to be so outrageous that I think that it’s going to cause a lot of people to say, “Nah, it’s not worth it.” Whereas marketing, the cost won’t be as outrageous. And because of that and his skill level and his age, I think he can be argued the best player legitimately available. I realize Giannis is is Oh, I would be open to a trade, but what are you going to get for him that’s going to make the Bucks do it right now? Looking at you, San Antonio. How about that number two pick? See, I think though that the Bucks would want more than that, whereas the Jazz wouldn’t. You see that? That’s where I’m saying that marketing becomes maybe the best most tradable. If I’m Milwaukee, do I want to really plunge that deep into a rebuild? Want? No. No. Well, the Jazz did. They wanted to uh or they felt like they had to. But I get your point, but they they didn’t have to when they did it. I don’t think they did. They chose to do it. That’s inarguable. They chose to do it. They did. You had two years where you could have potentially convinced Mitchell that this is the place. The Milwaukee guy. They could move him and they could also go the Portland scenario where everybody is like, well, what Portland needs to do is move Lillard. But Portlanders really didn’t want to. Yeah. Didn’t want to was way older and it sat for a year or two. Okay. So when And then they finally did it, right? But there were people saying two years before that, well, they’re going to have to do this. They’re painting into a corner. And I don’t think they’re the uh Bucks are in that situation yet. I think they’re where Portland was a couple years before Portland traded Lillard. And the question is, will they decide to do it? Because the Jazz could have let it ride for a year or two, but the Jazz management ownership, all the executives, right, decided, hey, we’re gonna have less trade value in a year or two. And is it really going to work in the next year or two? Let’s just do it now, man. Rip the band-aid off. Do it now. Yeah. Okay. But you’re you’re comparing Mitchell and Gobear to Giannis. Uh, everybody everybody’s best player is the best player to them. you trade Giannis the second you entertain the idea he has less value. You’re not there’s no way you’re going to get equal value. You’re not. So you’re never they’re in a different situation. But that’s to your point that because they’re not going to get equal value, they’re going to demand a lot. Then you go to Dallas. So is it worth it for an NBA team to say, “Okay, Giannis, we got to pick a number. Let’s say Giannis is 20% better than Lowry.” I don’t know. Whatever number. Is it worth that extra 20% all the stuff we’re going to have to pay to make that trade? You’re going to trade Giannis for Dylan Harper? They’re going to want more. They’re We’ll see what they sell for going to give more. Whereas the Jazz, yes, you’re going to trade marketing for Dylan Harper. Yes. Yes, we are. So, that’s why I’m saying the legitimately trade value. Not the best player, but he could be the best value trade. Yeah, that’s what I meant. There it is. I’m glad we got to it or I got to it. Maybe I didn’t explain it as good, but a best trade value. Yeah. Yeah. I use the word legitimate, but value is probably a better word. I get it. Yeah. You’re going to have to overpay to get Giannis. And Giannis is better. Yeah. But will it really be worth it? Yeah. Because So you give so much stuff up then you have a championship team because you kind of It’s kind of a wash there. Whereas the Jazz Yeah. And if that give us a number two pick an you know by not talking we don’t really know what he thinks right now. Maybe he could talk and not he’s grieving right now. His dog died. Oh yeah. That’s always hard. Losing losing a family losing a family pet is hard. Yeah. It sucks. Yeah. He put it on social media. I feel for the guy. Uh, so everybody who’s lost a favorite pet is now pets on and on. Yeah. One guy told me that he knew of a guy lost his dog and he immediately got another dog, the same breed and gave him the same name. So like didn’t didn’t happen. So it didn’t happen. Yeah. Nope. It’s right there. Yeah. King of Queens did an episode on that where uh Doug, what was her name? His wife’s name. Uh she goes, “Doug, you’re 30 years old and you’re playing with your childhood dog. That doesn’t work that way. Your parents never told you the dog died.” Carrie was her name. Yeah, I was gonna say Karen, but I knew that. Played by Le. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Car. and carries Doug, don’t you see what’s happened here? No. And I don’t want to. Yeah. So, I think that you would jump at that. I don’t Maybe I’m off base. I don’t think the Bucks would jump at Dylan Harper, whereas the Jazz Absolutely. Tony says nothing good comes from a trade with Lowry in it, unless it’s the number one pick. That won’t happen. So, no go. I disagree. Tony, not only do you disagree and I disagree, I think Yak disagrees and I’m really sure they disagree in the Jazz front office, right? Because marketing is making $4ome million dollars, so he’s getting paid all sorts of money. But basically, basketball life is just being wasted here, whereas Dylan Harper wouldn’t. And if you got to keep the fifth pick, if you got to keep the fifth pick and if you had two top fivers, oh my goodness gracious. Now you got to hit on them. That would be the best thing that happened to this franchise since the statues. If you hit on them, I think they will hit on them. Then that would be awesome. That would be awesome. I’m confident they have hit on two five two top five picks. That would really jumpst start the And the best thing is it’s not that the team would be awesome right away. I wouldn’t expect that. If it was, that then that’s just a bonus. But it’s like now once you have the young guys, you don’t have to sit anybody. Just run everybody out there. you’re probably going to lose a lot because young guys usually lose a lot and if they don’t then it’s awesome and they’re going to be awesome. Yeah. But you could just go for it and I don’t need to see uh you know 50 wins next season but it’d be awesome to see them trying to win. Play to win. Yeah, just play to win. And I know it’s it’s young guys and RSL’s we were just talking about how ice cold ice cold not high school ice cold they are. Well, they’re playing 18, 20, and 21 year old guys. So, yeah, the 25 and 30 year olds are beating the sod out of them. Yeah. And in the NBA and really in sports, especially in the NBA now, you have young and you have really young, right? The Jazz are really young. Really young. Young is 22, 23, 24. And then maybe if you’re out there with Yeah. 22, 25, 26 year old, you can you can do some win in Oklahoma City if you hit. I almost think, and I’m not there yet, but I’m getting there, that marketing is too valuable not to trade, which sounds crazy to say. It’s like an oxymoron, but I think the league looks upon him with high value, especially if you slot him in as your second or even third option. If he went to San Antonio and you had Big Vic, you had Castle, you had Fox, you had Marketing, those four. And if Chris Paul wants to come back and just be a leader and be a passer, uh, yeah, that that team is on to something. He probably won’t do the 25 points a game he did in his all-star season because he won’t get as many. It’s about winning. It ain’t about points. It exactly. And can he be efficient? Can he now? He wasn’t last year, but I’m just going to write that off to a bad year. The two previous years, if you can recapture any of that, oh, I believe. Then you’re on to something. I believe he can. Last year was, I think, a bad year because it was a wasted year and he knew it all year long. He knew it. Hard to be mentally in gear. Yeah. when you know if I play well and we start to win I’m gonna get pulled and if we do win then I’m not playing the next game. It’s a weird cycle to be caught in. And I think it impacted how efficient he was. I wouldn’t want to be into it two years in a row if I were him. Nope. So I would want out and go along that direction. I I think that he is a massive piece towards getting this thing jumpstarted by a couple of levels. I would be I would press hard for all three teams ahead of me because I don’t believe that the Mavericks would be interested in any form of a trade that involves Cooper flag. I agree with that. But they have to be called and it has to be explored anyway. And it’s like you you got two tracks here. You know, if you go with with Markin, then when you get Kyrie back, you know, you can go for it. No, I don’t I wouldn’t do it if I were the Mavericks. But did you think they were going to trade Luca Donsic in that deal? You got to call him. Let people trip over that deal, but trade a guy who’s not serious about his conditioning and is still young where you’re uh what’s the word I’m looking for? uh in terms of uh being able to eat and still not gain weight metabolically. Yeah. Metabolism. I get your point. He’s only going to get fatter unless he gets serious. Trading Luca Donsich wasn’t outrageous. It could be defended and there’s some logic to it. Trading it for what they got is indefensible. I’ll buy that. At the same time, you got to let it play out because if if you you can’t always judge one moves, one move based solely on one move. True story. Basketball is a puzzle that has to be put together. The pieces of the puzzle have to fit. Yeah. And so if they uh can get now they expecting Davis not to get hurt is stupid. But having Irving go down is a massive blow. They didn’t know Kyrie was going to blow his knee out, right? You know, if if they can come back in two years and you got Irving is still good, Davis is still good, Flag, maybe you got some. And they got some decent role players. So we’ll have to see. There could be a lot of guys on the move. There’s uh you know there’s a whole line of logic out there. Whether Dallas will sign off on it or not is another another thought. But they should trade AD. They should trade AD to somebody who’s in a a win now mood and try to get young players. Young players you like in value. His value is decreasing. I agree. All the more reason to move him right now. Well, that was all the more reason not to acquire him. I agree with that too. But now you have. So, I don’t know who would be jumping to get him. If if you got him on 50 Cents that Yeah, I I would say that. Uh, but that’s for their issues. I’m more concerned about the Jazz. And the Jazz, they really can jumpst start it. I right now if they just kept the fifth and the 21st, I would be disappointed. Something’s got to happen. Even if they get two really good players, I would still be disappointed in the short term. I think uh I’m not the expert on collective bargaining, but I don’t think they can trade him draft night. So, I don’t care. Right. But the whoever can draft and then you can pull the trade off, you know, on whatever date he becomes eligible for a trade, right? I get that. Yeah. I’m not I’m not I’m not So, there’s a high draft pick going into the I’m talking about going into the season. Summer. Yeah. Yeah. Over the course of the summer, not necessarily on draft night. Right. Right. Yeah. because yeah, you see who you got and and all that type of stuff. And and then then they stories can get out whenever he’s available to be traded. That that stuff gets out anyway. Usually does. And so you can’t some archaic rule says you can’t do it till whatever date. I get all that. I don’t pay attention to all that. I’m not Doesn’t really matter. There’s no game in July or August anyway. Yeah, those those rules don’t really work for me. Uh, but I mean they’re out there and let you know I’m I’m not I like your answer. A space lo. That’s what they can get for marketing. Now, do they want that in a young player? Do they want that in a draft pick? Who would obviously be very young. When I say young player, I was talking more about your, you know, early 20s. I got it. That’s Yeah, I would I would [Music] include some other assets, too. if it if if you can do it, if the other team, whether it’s San Antonio, Philadelphia, or maybe even Charlotte, you know, obviously the second pick I’d give more, the third pick I give a little less, the fourth pick I give a little less than that. I would try, especially two or three and I keep five. Uh, you should repeat what you said yesterday because people unfortunately do not hear every segment of every show, but there are a couple things that you think about where the Jazz are leaning or not leaning in the draft. Yeah, I don’t think they’re as high on Bailey as some folks are. And I think they’re high on the Oklahoma point guard. And I was reading a review of the combine that Bailey measured like two and a half, three inches shorter. 67. He’s 67, 67 and a half, something like that. Have an afro. He’s not He’s not He’s not 610. No. So, yeah. Yeah, on the list of things and no one thing is the thing that cools them, but lots of seven vers 10 is a big deal. That’s a big deal. DJPK, Matt Michelle, UCF Knights beat and college football writer for the Orlando Sentinel joins us next. The spring football tour. Can Scott Frost recapture the magic? Stay with us.

DJ & PK examined what the Utah Jazz may be able to get in return for forward Lauri Markkanen if they were to trade him this summer.