What To Know On Denver's Trade Talks

Zach LaVine, Brandon Ingram, Jordan Poole?!

Trade talks are messy and most often hilariously less serious than they are portrayed.

Conversations constantly happen at informal levels, and once they reach the stage of serious exchange of proposals, both sides are paranoid about it leaking at the risk of it falling apart with damaged egos.

With that in mind, the Athletic’s report from Tony Jones and Sam Amick raises several questions I’ll try to put some perspective on.

The conversations with Chicago are recent, not months old, as I initially suspected. In the last several weeks, those conversations picked up some level of steam. But even then, serious exchanges of proposals have not occurred, and there’s still real skepticism that a deal is “plausible,” according to a source from each team.

The recency of those talks increases the likelihood of a deal; often, trade talks are reported months after they’ve fallen apart.

(I’ve done this before. When queried on why they didn’t tell me the talks were months ago, a key source replied “you didn’t ask!”)

As for what the Nuggets would send in a deal for LaVine…