The Brooklyn Nets are all over the trade rumor mill as the NBA is now just a week away from opening up the market floodgates. One of the names that has been mentioned the most is Spencer Dinwiddie, who could be useful to a lot of teams around the league.
On the daily Locked On Nets Podcast, hosts Doug Norrie and Adam Armbrecht discussed the trade rumors around Spencer Dinwiddie. Moreover, why the Nets simply can't afford to trade him right now.
Doug Norrie: Spencer Dinwiddie has real value to this team. He's the Kyrie insurance policy right now at a nice number, $11 million for Spencer Dinwiddie. Is something that's, that's a good number for what he gives you? Is it a good number for a traditional just backup point guard? No, but he's going to be more than just a traditional backup point guard because we just know Kyrie is not playing the whole season. He just almost has more value to the Nets right now than he would in almost any package that he could bring back for him, I think. Maybe I'm overstating a little bit, but if you were to give him away, you probably have to get another ball handler back. Then at that point, because… you need some kind of insurance policy on Kyrie right now.
Adam Armbrecht: So… if you make a move where you're giving up Spencer Dinwiddie… Dinwiddie is one of the top three or four scorers on this roster and an important one when you talk about Kyrie needing nights off for possible injury. So you are taking out scoring and you can feel pretty comfortable about that. However, that's also assuming that everything goes smoothly with Kevin Durant coming back from injury as well. You have some question marks around a guy like Taurean Prince that we've mentioned before, in terms of just pure scoring output. So even if you sent him out, you bring back in a traditional three-and-D wing that has some flexibility in terms of the positions that he can guard against, that's great, but you are diminishing some of the guard position scoring when Kyrie is off the floor… I don't want to not be confident in Caris LeVert, but he's a different type of guy. He needs a traditional style point guard alongside of him.
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