Trading Marc Gasol is a non-starter. Name of people I would trade for Marc Gasol:
1. Durant
2. LeBron
I'd consider, but would likely keep Marc:
- Harden
- Curry
- Westbrook
- Anthony Davis
- Noah
Would not trade him for:
- Duncan (better player, but older)
- Parker (generally don't trade C for G)
- Griffin (I prefer Marc)
- Paul (I think he is better, but not good enough to trade Marc's size for, a PG is easier to replace than a Franchise Center)
- Howard
- Aldridge (but I could MAYBE see that being an interesting discussion)
- Dirk (Better player than Marc, but at the end of his career)
- Kobe (Ditto to Dirk/Duncan)
- Pau
- Cousins
- Wade (Ditto to Dirk/Duncan/Kobe, better in prime, but past prime)
- Hibbert (ha, ha, ha)
- George
- Bosh
- Deron Williams
- Al Horford
- Chandler
- Carmelo
- Love
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Basically, if you factor in the lack of strength at the 5 position, the aging of players who had better primes than Marc (Kobe, Duncan, Dirk, Wade), and the axiom 'don't trade big for small', I don't see any value in trading him. There are literally something like 5-10 players that approach his overall value and NONE of those guys will be traded from their teams.
We have Marc and I'm THRILLED about that. The core is in place for one more year, let's add some more shooting and get after it