The NBA offseason has reached the slowest part of the year.
Most significant transactions have been made with summer league over and free agency mostly settled. Now, teams will wait out the next couple of months before the start of training camp in September.
But just because we’ve reached the quietest portion of the NBA calendar, doesn’t mean moves still can’t be made. The trade market is open year-round, which means deals can still be struck.
With that in mind, Bleacher Report writers Grant Hughes and Dan Favale decided to conjure up one new trade idea for all 30 NBA teams.
The Oklahoma City Thunder are featured in two trade ideas. The first involved a swap of Lu Dort and draft picks in exchange for O.G. Anunoby. The second involved finding Tre Mann a new home.
- Details: The Thunder trade Tre Mann to the Nets for a Mavericks 2027 second-round pick.
The deal gives Mann a fresh start in Brooklyn. The third-year guard is swimming against the tide when it comes to rotation minutes in OKC, as he is behind several other guards on the depth chart:
“Scooping up Mann reflects the existential limbo in which the Nets find themselves. He is expendable to the Thunder, who have officially buried him on the depth chart behind, at minimum, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Josh Giddey, Lu Dort and Cason Wallace. But Mann’s off-the-bounce shiftiness and shot-making will have value to another team that needs help at the point of attack.
Forking over a distant second-rounder is a worthwhile price of admission to the Tre Mann Experiment. Especially after his summer-league performance. The Nets needn’t give up anyone to make the math work. They can take Mann into part of the Kyrie Irving trade exception, and a one-for-none deal should intrigue Oklahoma City, which is drowning in guaranteed contracts at the moment.”
While this would be a bitter pill to swallow, this deal looks somewhat realistic on what a Mann trade would look like. The Thunder will spend the entire offseason evaluating their roster before making the necessary cuts. As things stand right now, Mann is likely near the bottom of the prioritization totem pole.
If the Thunder decide to move on from Mann, a team like the Nets could definitely make a ton of sense as they could provide him with consistent minutes.
