Wilson Chandler Trade Rumors: 5 Teams That Should Trade For Nuggets SF

Honorable Mentions

Miami Heat:

Will Pat Riley trade Goran Dragic or Dion Waiters in the wake of the Miami Heat‘s 11-game win streak? If he wants to tank and continue rebuilding through the draft, trading for Wilson Chandler would make no sense.

But now that Miami is only two games out of a playoff spot, perhaps Riley decides to ride out this momentum and is more willing to see what this core could do with someone like Ill Will to replace the injured Justise Winslow.

The Nuggets would get a versatile 4 in James Johnson to fill a position of need, but they’d probably push for Tyler Johnson over Wayne Ellington as the second piece of the deal, which would kill any potential negotiations if the Heat were interested in a Wilson Chandler trade.

Portland Trail Blazers:

Al-Farouq Aminu is a great defender, but his lack of offense has demoted him to bench duty and Evan Turner is still an odd fit. A two-way player like Chandler could really help the Portland Trail Blazers as they brace for a late playoff push.

They’d have to give up a young player, but that player would also have to have enough talent to entice Denver, since the two teams are competing for the eighth playoff spot in the West.

Maurice Harkless or Meyers Leonard would work as far as matching salaries, but Leonard’s new extension makes him drastically overpaid, and Chandler is better than Harkless. Unless the Nuggets were desperate to get younger, a move like this would only make them worse and hinder their playoff pursuit.

Atlanta Hawks:

A straight up swap of Wilson Chandler for Kent Bazemore works, but since Bazemore is younger, perhaps including Ill Will as part of a Paul Millsap deal would make more sense? He’d be an ideal veteran leader who’d address a position of need at 4, helping bolster the defense in the process.

Millsap trade rumors have been swirling for months now, so even though the Atlanta Hawks have taken him off the trade block, they still seem trapped between being good enough to make the playoffs but not quite good enough to do anything once they get there.

If they decide to deal Millsap rather than overpay for a 32-year-old in free agency, trading for Chandler and young center Jusuf Nurkic would be a decent return. But Atlanta could probably do better in a Millsap trade, Nurkic would just be Dwight Howard‘s backup and the Hawks already have Bazemore at the 3.