{"id":71073,"date":"2025-08-09T23:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71073\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T23:12:08","slug":"cringy-proposed-spurs-blockbuster-trade-sacrifices-sanity-to-land-former-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71073\/","title":{"rendered":"Cringy proposed Spurs blockbuster trade sacrifices sanity to land former MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"61\">The NBA&#8217;s dog days of summer are upon us, and San Antonio Spurs fans should brace themselves for bad team-related trades. This one involves Philadelphia 76ers superstar Joel Embiid, with him being sent to the Spurs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/onsi\/fantasy\/nba\/nba-mock-trade-philadelphia-76ers-deal-joel-embiid-san-antonio-spurs-vassell-sochan-barnes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a bonkers blockbuster trade proposal.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"64\">Embiid should be radioactive as far as trade value. Especially after his 2024-25 season ended in March due to knee surgery. He reportedly still hasn&#8217;t returned to basketball activities after almost five months, and who knows when or if he&#8217;ll play next season?\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"67\">So why would the Spurs trade for Embiid? They wouldn&#8217;t\u2014or at least, they shouldn&#8217;t.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs should reject any potential Joel Embiid trade<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6g\">The potential Embiid trade would send Embiid to the Spurs in exchange for Devin Vassell, Harrison Barnes, Jeremy Sochan, and 3 first-rounders. Yikes!\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6j\">That would be a wild overpay for a player that no one in their right mind would dare trade for without concrete information about his health. That is a huge question mark, and even if he were reasonably healthy, the Spurs likely still would balk at that offer.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6m\">Embiid is obviously dominant when healthy. However, he maxes out at 60 games a season and has never made a deep playoff run due to his getting injured at the worst possible times.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6p\">Imagine the Spurs trading two starters and a Sixth Man, plus three firsts, for a player that probably would only be available every other game. It wouldn&#8217;t make sense. If, say, Giannis Antetokounmpo became available, then that package would make a lot more sense, but not for Embiid.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs should keep their powder dry for another big trade<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6v\"><a href=\"https:\/\/airalamo.com\/spurs-giannis-antetokounmpo-dreams-shattered-stars-latest-comment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The aforementioned Giannis trade<\/a> option is still far and away the best option if San Antonio were to make a blockbuster deal. Trading one of Dylan Harper or Stephon Castle and three firsts would be a tough sell for most Spurs fans, but the results could well be worth it.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6y\">A Giannis and Wembanyama pick-and-pop partnership could be lethal on offense, while they&#8217;d be a defensive nightmare on the other end of the floor. That would make for a far better theoretical pairing than Wembanyama and Embiid, without the looming pplrisk of Embiid&#8217;s health.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"71\">Ultimately, the Spurs should steer clear of this proposed Embiid trade. Instead, they should keep their powder dry for another big trade or simply see if their talent-filled roster can make a big leap next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA&#8217;s dog days of summer are upon us, and San Antonio Spurs fans should brace themselves for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-71073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}