Clippers center DeAndre Jordan, one of several players who has yet to decide on his 2018/19 option, is weighing a number of options in advance of Friday’s deadline, reports Marc Stein of The New York Times (via Twitter). According to Stein, one option Jordan is considering involves exercising his option in order to facilitate a trade to another team.
Opting in to accommodate a trade is what Jordan’s former teammate Chris Paul did a year ago, when the Rockets lacked the cap room to sign CP3 outright. If Jordan is interested in joining an over-the-cap team, he could negotiate an agreement with the Clippers that would see him traded to that new team. However, as was the case last year with the Clippers, Rockets, and Paul, all three parties would have to be on board with the arrangement.
The Mavericks are among the teams with potential trade interest in Jordan, according to Stein, though he adds (via Twitter) that one source describes a Jordan-to-Dallas trade as a “long shot.” As we heard earlier this week, the Mavs appear ready to let bygones be bygones in regard to Jordan’s 2015 free agency debacle. A free agent that summer, Jordan committed to Dallas, then backed out of the agreement to re-sign with the Clippers.
Jordan’s player option for 2018/19 is worth $24,119,025, so if he opts in, that figure would need to be taken into account in trade negotiations — a trade partner would have to either match salaries or have the cap room to accommodate that amount.
If Jordan decides to opt out, he’ll become an unrestricted free agent on July 1.
No one wants Jordan at that ridiculous salary. I don’t see it happening.
Yes they do. It’s an expiring contract. A team could flip a longer contract for more flexibility.
Jordan for Gorgui Dieng, Cole Aldrich, and 2019 lottery protected pick.
Would you toss in a bag of basketballs to sweeten the deal?
No way the Clippers take that. Three years left on that awful Dieng contract, and with Jordan, the T-Wolves are a playoff lock, so there’s not a lot of value in the pick – unprotected or not.
The clippers are not taking on a long contract in any trade
I’m guessing the Lakers are dangling Deng plus a few young players/picks for him.
For opt in trades, can the team whose player is opting in including other players in the trade so for ex could you do a DJ opt in along with A Rivers? Anyways Wizards and Wolves look the most appealing assuming Clips want expirings and picks. What could Dallas really offer?
Yep, that’d be fine. Once the player opts in, he can be treated in a trade like anyone else under contract.
Thanks for answering. DJ would have to have a team in mind to facilitate it I’d imagine. One I’d do would be DJ and Austin Rivers to Minnesota for Wiggins and a 2nd or something. Allows Butler to move back to SF and allows Wiggins a chance to be the guy in Clipperland. That contract though lol.
I think if Pat Riley could somehow bring DeAndre to Miami Lebron will come back.
This explains so much of your nonsense commenting. You’re from Miami.
And I guess you’re from some magical land that produces the most intelligent people that ever lived
Yeah Deandre to Miami seals Lebron coming back
Why would the Mavs go after this guy? He left them standing at the alter last time.
Lakers sign Pg and Lebron and trade for Jordan. I think it’s going to happen
No shot has to be done by the 29th right ?
I think these big 3 schemes work best if the 1 trade happens before the 2 FA signings. There is no deadline near for that, but–
Players with an option (DJ, LJ) have that 6-29 option deadline… opt in to be tradeable, opt out to be signable.
In the DJ/LJ/PG scenario, all 3 have both options. I would do DJ last, since his salry would be the most flexible (reducable). But I would get Randle signed before DJ, so, maybe no DJ, who does not have any bird rights either.
I hope and encourage Luke Adams to step in and deny anything of a factual nature I (or anyone else) may claim.
Except for opinions such as, DJ is strictly a backup plan for LAL.
I don’t understand why no one wants the Anderson contract. He is a serviceable stretch 4 in today’s NBA. I think Anderson, picks and A young player or 2 for Jordan could be fair. Jordan wants to come to houston and Capela is probably too expensive to keep if they are going to chase LeBron and keep Paul
Anderson would actually work well with Lebron, since Lebron so often starts a drive then flings it out to a sideline 3pt shooter. That’s Anderson territory.
But HOU does not have to trade Anderson to get James. They would be quite inconvienced though, in terms of filling out the roster.
I do think is a good trade chip DJ’s contract if he opts in, I mean is an expiring, if a team wants to get rid of a good player for free cap room, for example Wiggins, OPJ, Whiteside… all of them could be useful to the Clips, with more years of security & this teams would make a huge cap reduction for next year, to me it would seem his contract is quite peachy actually. Just hope he doesn’t end up in Dallas, really really want them to get DMC.