Dejounte Murray Trade Request Saturday Fantasy Basketball Preview

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Dejounte Murray has requested a trade. Let's talk about that plus all of the action for Saturday in the NBA preview, streaming, all that is coming up. Michael Bolton, I've registered us to play as a family on Family Feud.

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Hello and welcome to the Locked On Fantasy Basketball Podcast, brought to you by Basketball Monster. My name is Josh Lloyd and I am your source for constant fista updates. And all of that is brought to you by FanDuel. Make this your most rewarding season ever with FanDuel Rewards Club every week. Check the FanDuel app to see what's waiting for you. Like I said, at the beginning there, Dejounte Murray has requested a trade. He has been going, I don't know, a little rogue in his replies and tweets on his official account, as well as many burners surfacing of just unhinged screeds on Pelicans-related YouTube channels. This guy has been a problem, it seems, for many years, and he really became probably my most disliked player in the NBA that season after he was traded from the Spurs when he was going through his summer pickup run of throwing balls at people's heads when they're laying on the ground. Remember that? Remember when he was being a complete idiot consistently? And now there's another team that doesn't want him there and he's crying about it? I don't know. So, the fallout from this is Dejounte Murray will not be playing for the Pelicans again.

I have no idea when he will be traded or where he will be traded.

It makes my call of Jeremiah Fears being one of my top five this guy is the guy to draft players feel a lot better. His value is going to be high like top 75 maybe more. But we also have to remember that when a player like Dejounte Murray who thinks he's good and some other team might think he's the answer but also commands a big salary, when he is traded something has to come back.

It has to. Now the rumors continue to be like I will be the Suns and Jalen Green which if Jalen Green comes to New Orleans, I'm pretty certain he will not start by the way. If that happens, it will be Fears, Jones, Murphy, Zion, Center with Bayon Green off the bench and that will not improve Green's situation.

Murray obviously going to Phoenix would impact Colin Gillespie and all that sort of stuff and his value would be okay but we just don't know. We have no idea. Could it be part of a Warriors-Pauzingas dump? I don't know. If you try and think and make moves by saying buy Lowen Dejounte because he will go get traded here or this player will come back, you just paralyze yourself with too many options.

There's 500 players in the NBA. There's 29 teams that he could go to. Some of them he obviously won't go to. But we just don't know and we don't know when it will happen. For now, the current players in the New Orleans are going to do more. So, Deeperleagues, Jordan Poole, Benedict Matheron, Standard Formats, a little bit more Bay, Depressed Penis, Herb Jones for defensive stats. Everyone just gets to do a little bit more where they currently sit. But when a trade happens, then we assess it when it goes down. It could be, I'll tell you what it is. It'll be good for Dejounte because currently, you're getting zeros from him. Now the question will be, do you drop him? Again, I don't know. But we have trade restrictions lift for about a third of the league on the 15th of December. So we're talking a month away until that happens. So he might be sitting getting zeros for a month. And you have to assess, because I'm pretty sure he won't be IAL eligible. It depends on your league. On fan tracks, I'm pretty sure he will be. No, actually I'm not sure. I'm not sure. So you might have to drop. I would give it a week and see what transpires, but there's nothing currently on the horizon here. So we just don't know, which is a disaster if you have Dejounte, because you might be in limbo for weeks. And he could be a top 50 player, maybe, depending on the situation, when he eventually moves somewhere. But it's a long way off. So we got at least some clarity on the New Orleans side of like, okay, opening up opportunities for others, but we still don't really know, A, who will come back, and when it will happen, and what to do with Dejounte in that scenario, then how he impacts whatever his future teammates are. So, yeah, that's that.