only if that cleveland one is a top 2 pick
Kawahi Leonard trade packages. (Per blecher report)
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Saysumthinfunnymike
VOTE!!!
We ain't giving up Tatum. Morris and the pick. That's it. 
CrookedAzzNikka
All Star
@ these packages.
The God Poster
LWO representa
Suns & Lakers are giving too much up/not worth it imo.
I love the trade for Philly & Boston point of view.
Cleveland
I love the trade for Philly & Boston point of view.
Cleveland
Fade Runner 2049
Veteran
If im the Lakers I'm not giving up Ingram and Kuzma for Leonard. He'll be a free agent year after next right? If he's traded somewhere he doesn't wanna be he'll bounce anyway
Dwight Howard
Superstar
What do yall think SA getting?..did yall not see the boogie trade?..Kyrie?..theyd be lucky to get most of these offers honestly. Dude is hurt and wants out, recipe for lowballing
Flex Luger
Job Is Finished
This. Looks the the trade offers you see on basketball forums lol
qnsfinest
Superstar
If Phoenix was to offer josh Jackson and deandre ayton (2018 draft pick) I’m sure popovich would drive kawhi to phoenix himself.
Out of all the fantasy trades, this is the worst one.
Out of all the fantasy trades, this is the worst one.
thenatural
Superstar
The author really thinks highly of Kawhi, that's for sure.
Danny Ainge Throws a Superstar Party in Boston
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Boston Celtics Receive: SF Kawhi Leonard
San Antonio Spurs Receive: SF/PF Marcus Morris, PG/SG Terry Rozier, SF/PF Jayson Tatum, PF/C Daniel Theis, 2019 top-eight protected first-round pick (from Boston, via Memphis)
The Celtics would be justified in refusing to mortgage the farm for Kawhi Leonard one year out from free agency. They're contending for the Eastern Conference's No. 1 seed without Gordon Hayward and while missing Kyrie Irving for the stretch run. They don't need to join this bidding war.
That doesn't give them the grounds to lowball San Antonio.
Authors of Marcus Smart sign-and-trades that also send out Terry Rozier and a first-round pick need to take their reality-check vitamins. The Celtics aren't getting Leonard without giving up at least one of Jaylen Brown or Jayson Tatum. He's Kawhi damn Leonard.
Superstar auctions seldom yield equal—or even comparable—value in return. But they're not supposed to be bloodlettings either. San Antonio can pivot to other offers if Boston isn't willing to pay more than clearance-rack prices.
In the event better proposals don't exist (they would), the Spurs might as well offer Leonard the five-year designated player extension for which he's eligible. He's not about to turn down that money after missing almost all of 2017-18, and they can always shop him later, just like the Los Angeles Clippers did with Blake Griffin after re-signing him last summer.
Negotiations wouldn't be so difficult for the Celtics a few months down the line. They could build an offer around a zillion first-rounders—including the 2019 Sacramento Kings pick—if they had the salary filler to do so. That might allow them to retain both Brown and Tatum if the Spurs are looking to begin a full-tilt rebuld.
But the Celtics won't have a more expensive Smart and, presumably, someone earning a portion of the mid-level exception until next February's trade deadline. And even then, the Spurs probably demand Brown or Tatum as part of any package.
Drawing a line in the sand at both is perfectly fine. Refusing to include either one would be inexplicable. Sacrificing Brown or Tatum is worth the roof-less ceiling on a Fantastic Four of Hayward, Irving, Leonard and Horford.
Let’s see what that bytch nikka’s Uncle decides when the Spurs drop the bag
invincible1914
G.O.M.A.B.
I don’t know about these trades. Trading a star player for a package of players and not racking up on draft picks never pan out and the Spurs isn’t the type of organization to get fleeced on a trade 
. I feel the Lakers would be giving up too much unless they know for a fact they got Lebron locked up. But I also feel like if Philly should put together whatever they can toss in there and keep Simmons and Embiid they should do that shyt. There’s a point where the #process becomes the #treadmill and they need make a big move (plus get somebody that can shoot
) while they are still on their rookie deals.
. I feel the Lakers would be giving up too much unless they know for a fact they got Lebron locked up. But I also feel like if Philly should put together whatever they can toss in there and keep Simmons and Embiid they should do that shyt. There’s a point where the #process becomes the #treadmill and they need make a big move (plus get somebody that can shoot) while they are still on their rookie deals.