Pacific and Northwest Division Trade Deadline Outlooks

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 121 minutes

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PHX–If a Butler trade isn’t happening, who can they pursue with their 3 firsts? LAL—What would be worth putting their future firsts on the table for, and how can they upgrade at backup C? 18:30 LAC–The Clippers unexpected success could make them buyers at the deadline, but what can they trade? 30:59 SAC–Are they in the Cam Johnson sweepstakes? How do they improve the frontcourt? 41:20 GSW–In Vuc we trust? 51:08 OKC–They can go get basically anyone available, so who should be on the shopping list? 1:02:10 POR–Did they miss the boat on trading Simons or Grant? And should they trade anyone else who’d make sense on a winner? 1:16:22 DEN–They’ve righted the ship, so what’s their move now? Would they consider trading a young player? 1:28:13 UTA–John Collins and Collin Sexton should be available. What would the price be for trading Walking Kessler? 1:37:05 MIN–Uncertainty dominates this trade deadline for the Wolves. 1:50:55

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0:00.0	Welcome on, everyone, to this very special mock trade deadline Eve edition of Dunkton.
0:06.6	And I want to remind everyone that they can use the promo code mock deadline 25.
0:13.7	And that will get you 35% off a yearly membership to Dunkin Prime.
0:18.7	Just in time to listen to the entire mock trade deadline
0:21.4	Kevin Peltin, Dan Feldman, Danny and I will be recording that tomorrow and hopefully it will be out
0:26.7	in the evening, Internet and all other gods willing.
0:31.5	Let's help.
0:32.4	Yeah, yeah.
0:33.0	So let's get started here on the Pacific Division, and we begin with the team we've spent a bit of time on here in the last bit or so, the Phoenix Suns.
0:44.3	The Phoenix Suns are in such a fascinating situation because in many other circumstances, you would say a team that is this expensive, that as we're recording this is 23 and 21 with a negative cleaning the glass differential.
0:58.0	Maybe they're looking to retool. Maybe they're looking to pivot or anything else like that.
1:02.1	It does not appear that Mattisbia and James Jones, pretty much Mattisbia, are looking in that direction.
1:08.0	That is some of the reporting is out there. But I think a couple other pieces of context that are important here as we begin with the Phoenix Suns. One is this team is
1:14.5	astonishingly expensive. So the Suns are more than 45 million. I have it as more than 46 million
1:21.1	over the luxury tax line that of course is deep into the second apron. They have three different
1:26.3	players making over $49 million.
1:28.7	So that's one, is this team is exceedingly expensive.
1:31.3	And then the other one is they're very asset poor.
1:34.5	They did just gain those picks in the trade with the jazz where they gave up their unprotected 31
1:39.7	in exchange for basically the worst of in three different years in 25, 27, and 29, which opens
1:46.9	some things up. We'll talk about that.
1:48.4	The worst of Cleveland, Minnesota, and then in the latter two years, Utah as well,
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