Trade: [PHX/WSH] Bradley Beal for Chris Paul, Landry Shamet, multiple second-round picks and pick swaps

[Marc the Habs Fan]

A father day's blockbuster trade.

Booker-Beal-Durant as a big 3, with Ayton as a potential trade piece...

The Wizards...made a trade. Obviously Beal's NTC screwed them here.

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[Canes]

NBA trades will never make sense to me lol

 

[GKJ]

Suns are gonna have to trade Ayton just to have a bench.

Do the Wizards still release Paul?

 

[Terry Yake]

lmao

imagine the outcry from the rest of the league if the lakers had acquired beal without giving up a 1st round pick

KD just can't get enough help apparently

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

NBA trades will never make sense to me lol

Beal has the only no-trade clause in the NBA.

He could pick his destination and essentially decide who gets traded for too, as he had every interest in making sure his new team was in very good shape to win once he got there.

The Wizards get basically nothing of value but they clear long-term cap room and they'll start a multi-year tanking process now I would imagine.

 

[Breakers]

4 max contracts

Enjoy paying a gazillion bajillion in luxury taxes

But the owner seems motivated, so good for him.

 

[John Price]

that supermax they gave him sucked

glad to be rid of it. clean house

 

[Breakers]

“The luxury tax total doesn’t fit on my calculator”

- Windhorst

Guy’s got jokes
but in all seriousness he may be serious, they have 5 players currently on the payroll, and are gonna fly past the second apron like it is a sign on the side of the road.

 

[BobColesNasalCavity]

Wow

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

 

[BobColesNasalCavity]

Clippers?

 

[Five Alarm Fire]

Probably the best move you can do with the Paul contract, but I can't help but think this solves none of the Suns issues from the past year. Still have no bench, questionable defensively, but maybe they can outscore their problems. With Beal and KD both having injury histories there's a lot of variability here. Hope for their sake it's worth the luxury tax bill.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

Durant probably gonna give it a year and if it doesn't work then he will demand a trade try elsewhere with another group.

 

[Terry Yake]

you can add beal to the never ending list of stars KD has played with throughout his career

westbrick
harden
curry
klay
kyrie
booker
paul
beal

no one's had more help in league history

 

[HisIceness]

Good deal for Phoenix I think. Those pick swaps are probably not going to mean much.

 

[GKJ]

 

[dahrougem2]

Suns still won't win in the playoffs

 

[BostonBob]

This just sounds fishy - Bradley Beal's agent is Mark Bartelstein and his son Josh Bartelstein is CEO of the Suns.

 

[Terry Yake]

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

you can add beal to the never ending list of stars KD has played with throughout his career

westbrick
harden
curry
klay
kyrie
booker
paul
beal

no one's had more help in league history

KD is a passenger, not a leader

 

[Voight]

NBA is pretty much the only league where once a trade rumour is out, the player is actually traded in short order.

KD is a passenger, not a leader

El wrongo.

 

[Avs_19]

Weird trade. Suns give up nothing but Beal also doesn’t seem like the type of player they needed. It’ll be interesting to see how they fill out their roster now. Ayton’s probably getting traded.

Wizards completely screwed this up from the beginning but at least they can start a complete rebuild now. Better late than never!

Btw, CP3 confirmed what everyone already assumed, even after Ishbia denied it:

 

[GKJ]

Isiah Thomas being involved has always worked out.

 

[BostonBob]

Isiah Thomas being involved has always worked out.

The guy has all the integrity of a used car salesman.

 

[Voight]

Sure, the lifelong Pistons fan hired his childhood hero who is now going to absolutely destroy a championship contender.