Minnesota gets Bennett, Wiggins, and 1st round pick for Love

[thebigabd]

If you have to trade away Kevin Love, they potentially got pretty good value for him. You don't know how good Bennett and/or Wiggins will be, and they get a first rounder pick next season too.

Will be interesting to see this play out.

 

[thebigabd]

Minnesota T-Wolves
PG: Ricky Rubio
SG: Kevin Martin
SF: Andrew Wiggins
PF: Anthony Bennett
C: Nikola Pekovic

Cleveland Cavs
PG: Kyrie Irving
SG: Dion Waiters
SF: Lebron James
PF: Kevin Love
C: Anderson Varajeo

 

[SoonerBounce13]

wow that is a lot to give up but I think it helps both teams

 

[WTSooner]

wow that is a lot to give up but I think it helps both teams

How is that a lot? Bennett wasn't very good last year. And the pick is protected, and the Cavs are going to win so the pick is going to be at the end of the 1st round. Actually seems pretty cheap to me, considering what Boston and some other teams were rumored to have offered.

 

[thebigabd]

How is that a lot? Bennett wasn't very good last year. And the pick is protected, and the Cavs are going to win so the pick is going to be at the end of the 1st round. Actually seems pretty cheap to me, considering what Boston and some other teams were rumored to have offered.

Bennett is really the X-Factor in this deal. If he turns out to play like a #1 pick, could really be good for the Wolves. They weren't winning with Love anyway, so they just added two #1 picks and got another first rounder.

The T-Wolves are obviously still in rebuild mode, but they were in that same situation with Kevin Love anyway.

 

[bocabull]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Love is a known quantity at this level. Bennett was #1 in an extremely weak draft & Wiggins is raw.

Knowing the history of Cleveland Wiggins will probably end up being MVP caliber, Love will throw out his back and Johnny Football will be the second coming of Akili Smith.

 

[WTSooner]

Bennett is really the X-Factor in this deal. If he turns out to play like a #1 pick, could really be good for the Wolves. They weren't winning with Love anyway, so they just added two #1 picks and got another first rounder.

The T-Wolves are obviously still in rebuild mode, but they were in that same situation with Kevin Love anyway.

The thing is, they kept saying they wanted to win now. They didn't want young players, and draft picks. They wanted established players. Then they turn around and trade for a 2nd year player, a rookie, and likely a low 1st round pick. Just weird. I agree they had to trade Love, he wasn't going to stay there. I just think they (Minn management) did a piss poor job of getting the most return. And I say that fully expecting Wiggins to someday be an all-star caliber player.

 

[jmizzy4ou]

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Love is a known quantity at this level. Bennett was #1 in an extremely weak draft & Wiggins is raw.

Knowing the history of Cleveland Wiggins will probably end up being MVP caliber, Love will throw out his back and Johnny Football will be the second coming of Akili Smith.

:ez-roll::ez-roll::ez-roll:

 

[bocabull]

You just wonder what the league office will say about this trade. It's against the rules for the Cavs & Love to agree to an extension before he's officially a free agent.

The Cavs have to give up all these assets with zero assurance Love is going sign with them longterm. Maybe he's going to opt into the 2015/16 season as part of the trade which would guarantee them 2 seasons with him, Lebron & Irving.

 

[jmizzy4ou]

You just wonder what the league office will say about this trade. It's against the rules for the Cavs & Love to agree to an extension before he's officially a free agent.

The Cavs have to give up all these assets with zero assurance Love is going sign with them longterm. Maybe he's going to opt into the 2015/16 season as part of the trade which would guarantee them 2 seasons with him, Lebron & Irving.

League Office won't say anything. LBJ is their poster child right now, and the " Coming Home" theme is making big money. Adding Love will only enhance the attention. Now if it was CP3 to LA..........:facepalm

 

[bocabull]

It's alright mizzy. Kobe is going to have a great couple seasons & this guy will lead the next chapter of domination.

http://www.silverscreenandroll.com/2014/8/4/5967461/nba-rookie-photoshoot-julius-randle

 

[SilliSooner]

Bad deal for Cleveland. They had a team that could compete without Love while having a great future. With LeBron being able to swing from small forward to power forward, plus Tristan Thompson (whose rebound average was right at 10 pg), Dwight Powell, and with Anthony Bennett dropping twenty pounds, recovering from his shoulder injury and tearing up the summer league, the Cavs had the best collection of PFs in the East. At a price of far less than the 24 million per year Love wants.

With new Coach Blatt putting in the Princeton offense so they can emulate a Spurs type of sharing offense, it doesn't make sense to scrap this for a Miami type model. They had a chance to grow a team that might be good for a decade but that might not work out paying three players $ 64 million a year.

 

[Smash Williams]

Bad deal for Cleveland. They had a team that could compete without Love while having a great future. With LeBron being able to swing from small forward to power forward, plus Tristan Thompson (whose rebound average was right at 10 pg), Dwight Powell, and with Anthony Bennett dropping twenty pounds, recovering from his shoulder injury and tearing up the summer league, the Cavs had the best collection of PFs in the East. At a price of far less than the 24 million per year Love wants.

With new Coach Blatt putting in the Princeton offense so they can emulate a Spurs type of sharing offense, it doesn't make sense to scrap this for a Miami type model. They had a chance to grow a team that might be good for a decade but that might not work out paying three players $ 64 million a year.

Where are you getting that figure? The only way Love can sign a contract worth an average of $24 mil per year is if the salary cap jumps to nearly $74 million next summer; the league's most recent projection is $66.5 mil. At the league's projected cap figure, Love won't even crack $24 million until the fifth and final year of his next contract.

 

[SilliSooner]

You probably know better than I, but I read where he was expecting $ 24 Mil in his second year. Maybe that was erroneous. I'll try to find the link.

 

[Smash Williams]

As a frame of reference, Bosh's new max contract is 5 years, $118.7 (an average of $23.74 mil per season), and he's a 35% max guy (10+ years of experience). Had he only had 7-9 years of experience, his max would have been 5 years, $101.7. Huge difference.

With only 7 years of experience, Love will only be a 30% max guy. For Love to get the same contract next summer, the salary cap would have to increase by nearly 17%.

Love will make a ton of money regardless, but two things to consider: 1) Cleveland wouldn't have enough cap space in the future to add another star via free agency even if they had kept Wiggins, so I think the value of Wiggins' rookie contract to Cleveland has been overstated by many; 2) Dan Gilbert isn't afraid to spend. The Cavs were one of the top taxpayers in the league LeBron's last couple seasons in Cleveland. The luxury tax will limit their flexibility in some way (i.e. getting a smaller MLE), but they're not going to make moves just to shave their tax bill the way Arison did by amnestying Mike Miller.