NBA Trade Rumors: 5 Teams That Should Trade For Goran Dragic
4. New Orleans Pelicans
The New Orleans Pelicans need to start putting talent around Anthony Davis, and although adding a 30-year-old point guard isn’t the most longsighted approach, it’d certainly help make them a better, more stable team.
Dragic has had a better season than Jrue Holiday early on, and he’s been able to consistently stay on the court over the last few years more than NOLA’s oft-injured point guard.
In this scenario, the Pellies get an energetic, fun facilitator to make life easier for the Brow, without having to sacrifice much outside of a guard who was hitting free agency this summer anyway, and a moderately useful bench player.
For the Heat, they get the remaining three and a half years of Dragic’s contracts off the books, they get a point guard replacement to either re-sign at season’s end for a fair price or let walk, and they get Galloway, a guy who’s shooting 37.1 percent from three-point range despite posting a 38.8 field goal percentage overall.
Tom names the #Pelicans as one of the teams to keep an eye on if the Heat decide to move Dragic: https://t.co/RMe4wd8ncf
— Mason Ginsberg (@MasonGinsberg) July 13, 2016
Miami already has quite a few 2-guards, but Galloway would spread the floor and help defend the perimeter for the two years remaining on his extremely cheap contract.
That being said, this may not be enough of a ransom for Pat Riley, and even if adding Dragic would help the Pelicans avoid Holiday’s pending free agency, New Orleans might prefer to just keep that cap space open without committing to at least two and a half years of the Dragon.