The NBA Free Agency period was on full display this past week, but no name was bigger than Kevin Durant (who was not a free agent) demanding a trade from the Brooklyn Nets. I will not dive fully into the Durant story (that's for another future NBA post), but I will talk about my NBA2K22 Nintendo Switch and the updated rosters on it.
I decided to download a fan's July 3rd roster update, which was great because he had all the rookies from this past June draft as well. From there I checked into some of the trade and signing rumors that are being talked about online. I also decided to kickstart some moves, making some blockbuster trades and signings, it's my alternate reality from July 3rd onward.
Here are some of the moves I made...
Starting with the biggest deal and name. Kevin Durant gets his way, and lands at one of his preferred destinations -- The Phoenix Suns. The Suns needed a quick answer to their shocking exit in the 2nd Round (to the Dallas Mavericks). It was a 4-team deal (but you can only do up to 3-team deals in NBA2K)...
- Suns acquired: PF-Kevin Durant (Nets), C-Jakob Poeltl (Spurs), SG-Josh Richardson (Spurs).
- Nets acquired: PG-Russell Westbrook (Lakers), SF-Mikal Bridges (Suns), SG-Landry Shamet (Suns), SF/PF-Cameron Johnson (Suns), SF-Doug McDermott (Spurs), plus three unprotected 1st Round draft picks (2024 & 2025 from Suns, 2026 from Lakers).
- Spurs: C-Deandre Ayton (Suns) in sign-and-trade.
In real life, the Washington Wizards made the horrible extension offer to SF-Bradley Beal, which will net him $251 million over 5 years. Beal declined his player option of $36.4 million from his prior deal. The deal reminds many Washington fans of disastrous deals like Gilbert Arenas and John Wall. With the Cavaliers possibly looking to do a sign-and-trade with SG-Collin Sexton, I made this offer for Washington...
- Wizards acquired: SG-Collin Sexton.
- Cavaliers acquired: PG-Monte Morris & SG-Corey Kispert.
I also decided to do another deal with Washington involved...
- Wizards acquired: PF-John Collins & two 2nd Rd draft picks (2025).
- Hawks acquired: SF/PF-Kyle Kuzma, SF-Deni Avdija, PF-Anthony Gill & two unprotected 1st Round draft picks.
These two deals help makeup the mess that is the Beal deal, plus adding them to a roster that includes PF/C-Kristaps Porzingis, rookie PG-Johnny Davis & C-Daniel Gafford. The Collins-Sexton-Beal trio are like a mini-big three for the Wizards.
One of the other big trade rumors are the Utah Jazz' SG-Donovan Mitchell, especially after the Jazz traded C-Rudy Gobert to the Minnesota Timberwolves, and let numerous players simply go... It appears the Utah may be in the middle of a full rebuild. The Jazz recently said that they shut down all offers to Mitchell, but there are some insiders such as The Ringer's Bill Simmons that don't believe that kind of talk. To be honest, I am not sure I believe he'll be on the Jazz by the time the 2022-23 NBA season starts.
Mitchell is rumored in deals involving the Atlanta Hawks, Miami Heat, New York Knicks among others, I decided to make this 3-team deal...
- Heat acquired: SG-Donovan Mitchell.
- Jazz acquired: SG-Tyler Herro (Heat), SG/SF-Duncan Robinson (Heat), PG-Gabe Vincent (Heat), SF-Cam Reddish (Knicks), SG/SF-Evan Fournier (Knicks), plus a 2025 1st Round draft pick (Heat) & 2024 2nd Round draft pick (Knicks).
- Knicks acquired: PF-Bojan Bogdanovic (Jazz), plus 2023 1st Round (Lottery Protected) draft pick (Knicks).
Evan Fournier wasn't able to pack his bags, as he was then dealt to the Dallas Mavericks...
- Mavericks acquired: SG/SF-Evan Fournier along with a 2025 2nd Round draft pick swap (worst).
- Jazz acquired: SF-Josh Green, a 2025 2nd Round draft pick swap (best), plus an additional 2nd Round draft pick from 2026.
The rest of the day were signings for the most part...
- Lakers sign SF-T.J. Warren.
- Celtics sign C-Thomas Bryant.
- Bulls sign PG-Goran Dragic.
- Clippers sign PG-John Wall.
- Suns sign G-Damion Lee.
- Nuggets sign G-Bruce Brown.
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