Trade: Chris Paul to Suns for Ricky Rubio and Kelly Oubre Jr.

[Wally_West]

I’m gonna really miss Kelly Oubre


I know Sauce disagrees

[Wally_West]

Any chance OKC waives Oubre and the he signs with us again?????

[Split T]

Gambo talking about us having the MLE and then tweets this:



Sounds like he expects us to keep Saric

[Split T]

Any chance OKC waives Oubre and the he signs with us again?????

No, they can trade him again for another 1st as early as Dec 15

[Wally_West]

We’re right there. My guess is we sign Gallo.

CP3-Booker-Bridges-Gallo-Ayton with

Payne-FA-Nesmith-Johnson-FA off the bench.

Gambo says Dario is coming back tho. If that’s true can we still sign Gallo to the MLE??


EDIT: never mind I saw the gambo tweet

[carey]

So how do you feel about Paul being a Sun?

You know me. I've called him CPMe for a decade. Not a huge fan of him *as a person.* He's a hell of a basketball player and when healthy can really improve the Suns. Just the space Booker will get when opposing teams have to move that much more to cover Paul on the perimeter. It will make the team better. I view it as a make it or bust move for this iteration of the Suns. The Booker-Ayton-X version. We now have our X and we'll either get to the playoffs in that 4-6 seed range or this will all end badly. I do wonder what happens when we plateau. What comes 'after' Chris Paul?

[carey]

Gambo says Dario is coming back tho. If that’s true can we still sign Gallo to the MLE??

Depends on if we're waiting until after 11/22 to complete the deal. If we wait until then we can use all our cap space. If we do it now all we have is the MLE & we can of course go over the cap to sign our guys like Saric, Diallo, etc.

[jonh]

So how do you feel about Paul being a Sun?

You know me. I've called him CPMe for a decade. Not a huge fan of him *as a person.* He's a hell of a basketball player and when healthy can really improve the Suns. Just the space Booker will get when opposing teams have to move that much more to cover Paul on the perimeter. It will make the team better. I view it as a make it or bust move for this iteration of the Suns. The Booker-Ayton-X version. We now have our X and we'll either get to the playoffs in that 4-6 seed range or this will all end badly. I do wonder what happens when we plateau. What comes 'after' Chris Paul?

I think this is the elephant in the room question we will be dancing around for the next 2 years.

[carey]

Gambo is clueless. That's not close to accurate btw.

[Wally_West]

Gambo is clueless. That's not close to accurate btw.

Lol

[Wally_West]

[Split T]

We’re right there. My guess is we sign Gallo.

CP3-Booker-Bridges-Gallo-Ayton with

Payne-FA-Nesmith-Johnson-FA off the bench.

Gambo says Dario is coming back tho. If that’s true can we still sign Gallo to the MLE??


EDIT: never mind I saw the gambo tweet

That I think is the dream scenario. If Gallo will sign for the MLE

CP3-Book-Bridges-Gallo-Ayton
Payne-FA-Nesmith-Johnson-Saric

Could still have Carter/Nader too. Use bi-annual exception for another guard.

I also wonder if you could agree to like a deal with Saric under his cap hold, sign him first. Then you could have like 10-12ish million to give someone like Gallo a little over MLE. Have to release guys like Payne and Nader for that I think though. But could use room exception or minimum contracts to bring them back. They are already on minimum contracts, so maybe they agree.

[Split T]

Gambo is clueless. That's not close to accurate btw.

It’s fairly close if he’s operating under the assumption we are bringing back Saric.

[carey]

Gambo is clueless. That's not close to accurate btw.

It’s fairly close if he’s operating under the assumption we are bringing back Saric.

I think it's close if we're bringing back everyone & completing the trade like today. I don't think that's what's going to happen.

[Xylus]

Wow.

[Wally_West]

Trade Ayton for Giannis now.


Sign Gallo and Augustin to vet mins


Paul-Booker-Mikal-Gallo-Giannis

DJ Augustin, Cam, 10th pick, FA Big.

A guy can dream can’t he?

[Mori Chu]

I don't think I like the idea of bringing in Gallinari. He's a good shooter, but I don't think I like him as a fit here. He's old and slow and not a great fit for our young team and up-tempo offense. He isn't a great defender. And he's an injury risk on a team that already has a prominent injury risk in Paul. Plus Gallo will likely command a decently large salary, and I'm not sure I'd want to pay it to him.

I think I would rather see our PF minutes go to guys like Cam or Saric or some other free agent PF.

[da_suns_fan]

I'd do this trade. THeyre not giving up that much. They did well without Oubre in the bubble and CP3 is a much, much better player than Rubio.

CP3 is older than dirt, but at least theyre trying.

[djy2j]

The transaction stalled initially because Sarver insisted on getting Jake from State Farm in the deal.


I'll see myself out.

[wpmiller42]

I would prefer Wood over Gallo. CP3-Booker-Bridges-Wood-Ayton is a nice starting 5.

And honestly, I'd rather start Cam over Gallo at the 4.