Trade CHA/OKC

[fauxcreative]

The only reason I'm going to say veto on this one is to protect the Hornets franchise. This isn't a situation like you had with myself and Dwight where we both have tons of assets, and Dwight could very much afford to take a big swing. Here, the Hornets only "big time" assets are Steph and the 1.02 pick. Beyond that, it's just "hope" on Jalen Johnson and whatever you can trade John Wall for. If they're going to trade one of their two biggest chips, they HAVE to get a lot of value.

In the other league on here, right before last season I traded Steph for Jaylen Brown and PJ Washington, and that's with Steph's salary counting for about 25% of the cap (19.6M of 80M cap). I added some small bits of cash coverage, but that's the kind of return I expect to see on Steph. Despite his age, he's still every bit the elite dynasty asset that Dejounte Murray is, and I would expect a close/similar return to that (1-2 high quality young players, and 1-2 RD1 picks).

Here, Westbrook has next-to-no trade/fantasy value just like he does in real life because he's a FG%/FT%/TO murderer, the 2023 RD1 from OKC will likely be 20-30, and Bones is an alright looking player but is still equivalent to his original draft capital (RD1, Pick 23) ... so that's a blah Westbrook and two late RD1s for one of the best assets in dynasty. I legit don't see a return package from OKC that would work unless it's for Ja Morant. Even if you added the 1.13 to CHA's return it's still just not enough.

So, like Laim, I'm vetoing b/c it kills/cripples/decimates the Hornets asset profile.