3 Teams to target if Spurs are forced to trade DeMar DeRozan

Who should the San Antonio Spurs look to if they have to trade DeMar?

We’re getting into crunch time now folks. We’ve got less than a week until the trade deadline on March 25th and the talk around the San Antonio Spurs has cooled since they announced that they were going to be parting ways with LaMarcus Aldridge last week.

Cooling talks around the Spurs isn’t necessarily a bad thing. This is a team that does this quietly and rarely allows leaks out but the reports we’re hearing aren’t great. It seems like they’ve come to a standstill with the Miami Heat on both the Aldridge and Rudy Gay fronts.

Appearing on The Jump earlier this week, ESPN”s Brian Windhorst reported that the Spurs have several offers on the table but aren’t interested in them. A buyout looks more likely than ever.

But LaMarcus isn’t the only Spur who could get moved before next week’s deadline. Yahoo’s Chris Haynes recently intimated that San Antonio could look to trade DeMar DeRozan if they’re not able to come to terms on a contract extension by the deadline.

I’ve gone back and forth on what I think the Spurs should do with DeRozan after this season but with how he’s played it’s hard to make a great case against extending him. He’s done a phenomenal job of distributing the ball to the young guys but when it comes time to get down to winning he’s the one they look to in clutch moments.

But if he and the Spurs are going to be unable to come to an agreement on an extension then it would make some sense to trade him. Better that than to lose him to unrestricted free agency this summer.

I don’t want to see the San Antonio Spurs trade DeRozan in the next week but if it’s going to happen here’s who the Spurs should be looking to as trade partners.

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