Trade Scenerios for the Phoenix Suns and Eric Bledsoe

TRADE SCENARIO #8 – Indiana Pacers

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OUT – Eric Bledsoe
IN – Cory Joseph and Domantas Sabonis

Why would the Pacers do this? A backcourt of Eric Bledsoe and Victor Oladipo’s resurgence with Myles Turner would be a capable trio for making a playoff run sooner than later. Yeah, Sabonis is a good young player they’d be losing but TJ Leaf looks ready to fill that void.

Why would the Suns do this? Cory Joseph is a very capable, at least short term, starter. If you look at the last 10 games where he played at least 30 minutes and the last 10 games where he took at least 10 shots you get…37% 3-point shooting en route to 14.4 points 5.9 assists and 1 steal per game. If he backs up Tyler Ulis, he’d be good at that too. Domantas Sabonis brings in another solid young big man. The season is only three games in but he’s averaging 63% FG 12.3 points 9 rebounds and .7 blocks thus far.