I believe that many fans should have seen the relevant reports, the Clippers recently completed a 4-for-2 big deal with the Blazers, Bledsoe and Winslow and Keane rushed to Portland, in return for the trade, Covington and Powell parachuted into Los Angeles. It is worth mentioning that although there is no conclusive evidence that the Clippers used unconventional means, the Blazers' move has caused a lot of heated discussion. It is understood that in the eyes of many NBA professionals, the Blazers almost gave Covington and Powell to the Clippers in vain, and the vast majority of people do not believe that the 2021 rookie Keane career can reach the height of Powell and grow into an offensive weapon with an average of 18+ points per game.
Therefore, the only reason why the Blazers can do this is nothing more than to want to enter the reconstruction period as soon as possible, taking advantage of Lillard's recovery time, through the way of trading to improve the future operability of the team, from the reporter Michael Scotto's follow-up report found that indeed as some people predicted, the Blazers began to speed up the team's reconstruction, following the inner core Nurkic, CJ McCollum has also been put on the trading shelf, as of now, the Blazers have received a number of inquiries, CJ's eventual destination draws the attention of three teams: the Nets are forced to join, the Lone Rangers are full of sincerity, and the Clippers want to pick up leaks.
First of all, the Nets, according to reporter Alex Schiffer revealed that due to Durant's mediation, to the team management to ensure that Harden stays, coupled with the Nets internal doubts, worried that the fragile Ben Simmons will bring more trouble to the locker room, under the influence of a variety of factors, the Nets terminated the trade negotiations with the 76ers, it can also be understood that the Nets do not plan to trade Harden for the time being. It should be noted that Durant deliberately emphasized in the process of communicating with the Nets management that he hopes that the latter can regard the "championship attitude" as a reference standard for whether to trade, which also makes part-time player Irving into a rumor storm.
All indications are that under the premise of Durant and Harden's binding, the Nets, bent on adjusting the big three combination, can only find a way on Irving, for the simple reason that Irving's professional attitude has been criticized so far. Considering that there are not many quality guards in the NBA player market at present, CJ is one of the few stars who can compete with Irving, and the Nets are forced to join this robbery war. Here is another sentence, whether it is personal skills or career honors, Irving is indeed ahead of CJ at this stage, but does not play vaccine + its own thorn attributes, resulting in Irving's current trading value is almost the same as CJ.
For the Blazers, if CJ and Irving swap owners, they can follow the Rockets' approach and let Irving sit on the bench for as long as Wall, thus giving Amphanie Simmons more opportunities to exercise. Then there's the Lone Ranger, unlike the Nets, who have been watching CJ for some time, including team owner Cuban, and the Lone Ranger agrees internally that the duo-guard CJ is suitable for playing next to Doncic. The source comes from reporter Marc Stein, the Blazers received a sincere deal offer, in order to be able to get CJ to assist Doncic, the Lone Ranger is willing to offer Brunson + Hardaway Jr. + Finney-Smith.
Marc Stein was told that in addition to recognizing CJ's personal strength, there is another key reason why the Lone Ranger wants to take a risk and pull 3 main players into the deal negotiations, that is, Brunson has previously rejected a 4-year and nearly $60 million extension offer, and from a practical point of view, if brunson is not sent away before the trade deadline of this season, then the Lone Ranger is likely to lose a lot in the offseason this year. Finally, a chat about the Clippers, yes, you read that right, the Clippers are also very interested in CJ, in fact, as early as last season, there were foreign media reports that the Clippers hope to introduce a star-level backcourt organizational core, and then ease the pressure on Leonard and George on the offensive end.
At that time, CJ's priority was significantly higher than that of Dinwiddie, Walker, Lowry, and Brogdon, but it was a pity that because the Blazers asked for a first-round pick during the negotiation process, the Clippers were a bit weak (there was no first-round pick available), and finally had no choice but to withdraw from the CJ scramble, and the Clippers missed a great opportunity to reinforce. Now, the opportunity is once again in front of the Clippers, the difference with the last time is that the Blazers' asking price for CJ has changed, as long as it does not affect their team around Lillard + Anfine, so that the Clippers have the opportunity to pick up the possibility of leaks, according to foreign media HopsHype, the Clippers have tried to use the small Morris + Ibaka + Kofi a total of 3 forwards as the main chip to quote CJ, and whether it can be successful in finding leaks depends on the final decision of the Blazers management. Thank you for reading and paying attention, welcome to leave a message to discuss.