Heat get Norman Powell, Clippers add John Collins in HUGE 3-team trade with Jazz | Reaction & Grades

Heat get Norman Powell, Clippers add John Collins in HUGE 3-team trade with Jazz | Reaction & Grades

We’ve got breaking news out of the NBA where the Clippers, Jazz, and Heat have agreed to a big-time three-team trade. ESPN reporting that Norman Pal will be heading to Miami. John Collins sent to LA. And the deal also will see Kevin Love, Kyle Anderson, and a 2027 second round pick head to Utah. Pal’s coming off of the best scoring year of his career, averaged just under 22 points per game with the Clippers. Collins, meanwhile, had a good year. 19 points, eight boards, but was limited to just 40 games due to a multitude of injuries. So, that is the trade and this is where we get going with the conversation. Bringing in our NBA expert, Brad Bodkin. And Brad, I first saw this trade. I was like, “Oh, okay. This is something.” What’s your reaction? Yeah, I I love this trade for for both sides. You know, Miami throughout this offseason, it kind of seems like this is the way for Miami every offseason where it feels like they’re reaching a little bit. It feels like they’re sort of on that treadmill of mediocrity and and kind of won’t give it up and just kind of go into a rebuild and then they go and they get Norman Pal really for almost nothing. Kevin Love, Kyle Anderson. Um, this is to to get a guy who’s going to average 20 points a game or did with the Clippers last year, I think over 21. Um, we’ll see what he does in in the Heat in the Heat program, but this is a guy who’s a 42% three-point shooter. I thought he should have been an all-star last year. Uh, to get this kind of player at this stage of the game for the Heat when the free agency market is basically all dried up. They’ve tried the Bradley Beal situation out. They’ve fell out of those talks. They’re in the market for Kevin Durant. It just seems like nothing’s going to happen for them. and they’re going to go into next season with Tyler Herro and Bam Matabio and a and a team that even in the Eastern Conference can’t feasibly compete for anything meaningful to add Norman Pal again an all-star level player. Um this is a fantastic get for the Miami Heat and I like it for the for the Clippers side as well. Yeah, I want to go back a little bit more to the Heat like how do they pull this off? They send away two guys on the bench who would sometimes get DMPS and get back a starle caliber player. Pal because the Clippers don’t want to commit to paying him next year. So Pal’s on the books for I think 20 million this year somewhere right around there and he’s a restricted free agent next year unrestricted free agent. So they’re getting out ahead of potentially having to give him a major major salary boost with the way he played last year and presuming how he’s going to play this year. So Miami will have a situation to deal with next summer and we’ll see how Pal works out. But for the time being, they get them at this price because the Clippers are adding front court depth. They like what they have um in the back court enough and they’re willing to let Powell go to not have to deal with uh the salary ramifications potentially next year as a as a free agent. Yeah, that uh graphic we’re showing you here, Norman Pow. This is what it would have looked like for the Clippers books had they kept Powell. Now instead they bring in John Collins, a guy who’s coming off averaging 19 and8 this past season shooting 39% from three-point land. Um so how is this for the Clippers? Uh you get rid of a guard, you bring back a forward who still can play and now leaves the exodus of the youth movement that seems to be continuing over in Utah. Yeah, no question. I I actually love the move for the Clippers just as much. They are really bolstering their front court depth. They go out and they get Brook Lopez and then they they bring in John Collins here who everybody lost track of in Utah. You know, he kind of fell off the rails after Atlanta. He he felt like almost a guy a couple of times was being talked about in buyout situations. He was just making way too much money for for what he was producing. You look up, he’s a 19 and8 guy. He’s almost back to a 40% three-point shooter. Uh this is a guy that really helps uh the Clippers front court depth. They’re adding a lot of versatility, a lot of lineup versatility, and and again with the Brook Lopez acquisition, I just I think the Clippers knew they had to clean their books up a little bit. Uh they don’t want to deal with Powell in the offseason. Very very good player. I I really think that for both sides, this is a very good trade. I I would I would grade this probably an A for both sides. I’m going to delve a little bit deeper into that grading bag in a second. Uh but first, I want to touch on the Jazz since they are a part of this. Does this move mean anything for them? Will uh Kevin Love see this court Kyle Anderson the draft picks. What is the allure of this move for Utah? Yeah, maybe. Again, they’re just I think they’re just not kind of dealing with the with the Collins situation. They’re they’re uh they’re putting a few picks in their in their holster here and and and we’ll see what Utah does. You know, I think the bigger questions with with Utah is they they’ve gotten rid of Ston. Are they are they gonna kind of try to keep this what they’ve been to get working toward with marketing in are they gonna fully tear this thing down and you know they get Ace Bailey and are they gonna what what kind of they’re sort of stuck a little bit they have a lot of assets a lot of firepower if they want to go out and actually make some meaningful moves but at the moment they’re working around the margins they seem to be stockpiling and and I don’t think they’ve probably made a decision on Lori marketing yet uh I think they probably play that into the take it up to the trade deadline and and just kind of see where they stand. They clearly don’t have a move in store right now that they want to dip both feet into the water in. So, they continue to operate around the margins and and Danny Angel is not going to do anything until he’s ready to do it. Uh so, I mean, you know, in terms of what this means for the Jazz right now, I think you just basically nothing. You kind of have to just wait and see what the Jazz are going to do over the next six months if they do anything by the trade deadline. Hey, Brad, it’s just the Walter Clayton Jr. here an Ace Bailey show in Utah. That’s what we can look forward to seeing. Not bad. Not bad. And I’m not mad at that at all. Now, I need you to put on that professor cap and let’s get you to grade the trade for both sides. We’ll say here, I want you to look at the Clippers, what they get, and then also for the Heat. I I I Let’s start with the Clippers. I I give it an A. It it does hurt to lose Norm Pal, but when your offense is going to revolve around James Harden uh and Kawhi Leonard, you’re going to be okay from from from the scoring department, but they have really really bolstered their front court depth. That was really obviously a priority for them coming into this off season to score Brook Lopez. I mean, you think about what Milwaukee gave up to to to go and bring in Miles Turner. Brook Lopez is yes at at his age a diminished version of Miles Turner, but you look at the difference in cost to get Brook Lopez at where they got him and then add Jon Collins again a 20 and seven guy basically. You know, I mean, you’re talking about a big-time producer who now goes to a situation where he doesn’t have to be the second or even third best player. And that’s big for John Collins. He he he was not able ever to graduate up the ranks in terms of a hierarchy on a team and really be a go-to player. That’s where he he fell into do too deep a water for him. He was making that kind of money but was never able to really be that. Now he finds himself in a position where he can be in a support staff position. And you almost look at it like an Aaron Gordon uh in in Denver who was overtasked with being a number one or number two player in Orlando. but but great athlete, great versatility, and you put him in a situation where he can be sort of that top end support staff player and he thrives. And I think John Collins is in a situation where he could potentially sort of mirror what Aaron Gordon has done. I don’t think he’s as good as Gordon, but in terms of the fit, I think that that’s something that he can find with the Clippers to not have to be the go-to guy, the front court depth. So, I I give it an A uh for the Clippers, no question. And then for the Heat, what grade would you give them? might need a letter from you. Yeah, I think it’s an A2. I mean, look, they they didn’t have to give up much. They’re going to have to worry about Norman Pal next year, but they can worry about that next year, how much they want to pay him then to get this is this is an obvious A to me, unless I’m missing something. You’re getting a 22 point score, a 42% three-point shooter, an allstar level player for basically nothing. I mean, you’re not worried about Kevin Love or Kyle Anderson. Now, you can go into next year. I don’t think this makes them a contender, but in the Eastern Conference, pretty much anyone can believe anything they want to tell themselves. You go in with Adabio, Hero, and now Norman Pal. I mean, you’ve got legitimate firepower. You still got Andrew Wiggins on the roster. Um, the Heat go out and make themselves viable in a in a wideopen Eastern Conference for things to break their way again for basically no cost, you know. So, the Clippers want to are worried about next year, but the Heat are worried about right now. Um, and are the Heat done? You know, we’re going to talk about Bradley Beal a little bit, but but maybe they can get him at a at a cut rate discount. And you know, I just think that in terms of what they had to give up to get him, if they had gone out and swung big and given up a bunch for Norman Pal and then he’s going to be a free agent next year anyway, then you look at it a little differently. But they didn’t give up anything. They get a at that price, Norman Pal is a steal for this year at least. So, I give them an A as well.

Brad Botkin joins CBS Sports HQ to discuss and grade the 3-team trade that sends Norman Powell to the Heat, John Collins to the Clippers, and Kevin Love & Kyle Anderson to the Jazz.

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