My (Too) Early Offseason All-In Trades...

Trade 1: Pels-Heat

CJ McCollum/Jeremiah Robinson Earle/Bucks 2025 1st round pick/Bucks 2027 1st round pick (lottery protected);

for:

Tyler Hero/Nikola Jovic

Trade 2: Pels-Hawks

Brandon Ingram/ Dyson Daniels/Lakers 2024/25 1st round pick/Pels 2024 1st round pick;

for:

DeJounte Murray/Onyeka Okongwu/ Hawks 2024 2nd round pick.

Total trades:

Out: CJ McCollum/JRE/Brandon Ingram/Dyson Daniels/4 1st round picks

In: DeJounte Murray/Tyler Herro/Onyeka Okongwu/Nikola Jovic/2nd rd. pick.

Pels 2024 Starting Line-up:

-DeJounte Murray PG
-Herb Jones SG
-Zion Williamson SF
-Trey Murphy PF
-Onyeka Okongwu C

Primary Bench

-Tyler Herro PG
-Jordan Hawkins SG
-Naji Marshall (partial MLE resign) SF
-Larry Nance C
-Nikola Jovic PF

Reserve Bench
-Jose Alvarado
-Karlo Matkovich
-E.J. Liddell

I may be over paying Miami a bit. I'd want to gauge the market for Herro for a while before making an offer. Might be able to drop the second Bucks pick from deal. CJ really had better numbers than Herro and is a Heat kind of culture guy. But he's also older and pretty pricey. Still, he's a good vet scorer and Miami likes vets. CJ and Rozier would give Riley a good scoring punch off the bench.

ATL gets Brandon, who is the best player in the deal, 2 1st round picks and good defensive prospect in Dyson. They can give BI a look to see if his length and scoring work next to Trey and Jalen Johnson. He will be motivated (especially if traded) and could help them solve some problems. The Lakers pick next year could also be valuable.

These deals would pretty much finish off the AD/Holiday assets, but I'm tired of sitting on them. It's time to push the chips to the center and go behind Zion. I think Herro is a bit devalued right now, like BI, but he'd give Pels bench scoring and pair well with Zion. Our defense is probably going to take a hit with this bench, but today's NBA is an offensive game. We need to up our fire power off the bench. Hawkins + Herro would do that and Jovic is a nice prospect with some length, essentially a lot of what you'd get if you could take a guy like Filipowski from Duke. I like the starting line up very much. Murray's production is very close to Brandon's, but he takes more threes and is much more of a natural ball handler and decision maker, especially in the clutch. Obviously, a big part of this equation is giving Trey more room to step up his game.