Wings trade the #11 + one of CCollier/Kuier/Alarie to Chicago, and one of Burton/Harris + the #19 to New York.
Sky trade Hebard to New York, and the #23 to Dallas.
Liberty trade the rights to NSabally + the #6 to Dallas, and one of Willoughby/Onyenwere/Richards to Chicago.
Wings receive the rights to NSabally + the #6 + the #23.
Sky receive the #11 + one of CCollier/Kuier/Alarie + one of Willoughby/Richards/Onyenwere.
Liberty receive one of Burton/Harris + Hebard + the #19.
Should go without saying that I would approve of this for all three teams. 🤪
New York: Nyara, Kone and Onyenwere out, Burton and Hebard in.
Dallas: Alarie and Burton out, Nyara, Kone and #23 in.
Chicago: Hebard and #23 out, Alarie and Onyenwere in.
I’m not attached to #6 pick, but I want more than #19 in return. Original proposal NY has (Onyenwere or)+Nyara+#6 for Hebard+Burton+#19. Onyenwere for Hebard seems fair enough. I think Nyara+#6 for Burton+#19 is unbalanced.
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A TL;DR is at the bottom, cuz my man-splaining ass truly did not mean to ramble on like this. 😂😅
Players like Alarie and Onyenwere are part of young, crowded position groups on their current teams, so any team that trades for them knows it wouldn’t be a big loss for the players' original teams. That allows prospective trade partners to come in at a higher position of leverage and consequently makes those players' trade values lower, low enough to be throw-ins to a larger deal.
That’s why I don’t think Hebard and Onyenwere are on the same value here. 1) Hebard is imo a little more naturally valuable as a true post player than Onyenwere anyway, and 2) Hebard is only one of two Sky post players signed through next year (Li Yueru being the other). Not to mention: Hebard had a fairly productive rookie season and pretty much everyone knows she has only been bench-ridden the past couple seasons because of all the vets in front of her on the depth chart.
It’s a little different for Burton and Harris, since Dallas was able to find decent playing time for both, sometimes alongside each other. And, they’re PGs – another position above wing players on the totem pole. It’s also different from that crowded Wings post group, since there’s soooo dang many of them. Even if Harrison leaves, they could match any McCowan offer, and SSabally still seems like more of a 4 than anything else. Even if they trade someone away, they’d have no real need for Sika Kone, so they wouldn’t value her imo. Acquiring Nyara though would be that much more of an investment in Satou (which sort of becomes one big investment in both of them all at once), so Nyara’s value to Dallas would be a lot more unconventional – but still higher – than any other young post player.
TL;DR I see it more like this: Hebard for NSabally, Burton/Harris for #6, and Onyenwere/one of the other two for #19.
The Lieberman in a Dallas Wings jersey thing didn't eventuate into anything more lol. Thank goodness for Dallas, I guess.
Satou Sabally is the key for this team IMO. If she can stay healthy and bring her European shooting form to the WNBA (47% from three in 2021-22 Euroleague), there's so much more Dallas can do on offense. I think she's still potentially an All-Star calibre player but now is the time to start showing it. It'll be interesting to see if Trammell can improve the defense because I'm not sure the personnel is there for anything better than an average defensive team but even being average would be an improvement. Maybe we'll see a bit of a roster overhaul.
The Lieberman in a Dallas Wings jersey thing didn't eventuate into anything more lol. Thank goodness for Dallas, I guess.
Satou Sabally is the key for this team IMO. If she can stay healthy and bring her European shooting form to the WNBA (47% from three in 2021-22 Euroleague), there's so much more Dallas can do on offense. I think she's still potentially an All-Star calibre player but now is the time to start showing it. It'll be interesting to see if Trammell can improve the defense because I'm not sure the personnel is there for anything better than an average defensive team but even being average would be an improvement. Maybe we'll see a bit of a roster overhaul.
I don’t think you can go by what players are doing overseas tbh… If Gustafson, Shakira Austin , and others can dominate so easily… the competition is not as good or high as we think lol. Because none of them will ever do it in the WNBA lol. Look at Anigwe. She looks like a damn mvp. But back here it’s another story:
The Lieberman in a Dallas Wings jersey thing didn't eventuate into anything more lol. Thank goodness for Dallas, I guess.
Satou Sabally is the key for this team IMO. If she can stay healthy and bring her European shooting form to the WNBA (47% from three in 2021-22 Euroleague), there's so much more Dallas can do on offense. I think she's still potentially an All-Star calibre player but now is the time to start showing it. It'll be interesting to see if Trammell can improve the defense because I'm not sure the personnel is there for anything better than an average defensive team but even being average would be an improvement. Maybe we'll see a bit of a roster overhaul.
I don’t think you can go by what players are doing overseas tbh… If Gustafson, Shakira Austin , and others can dominate so easily… the competition is not as good or high as we think lol. Because none of them will ever do it in the WNBA lol. Look at Anigwe. She looks like a damn mvp. But back here it’s another story:
Overseas form is indicative of what a player *can* do. I didn’t it say it *would* translate. I also think Sabally is much better than any of the players you mentioned and her becoming a good outside shooter in the WNBA is not an ‘out there’ idea.