NBA Twitter reacts to Pascal Siakam getting traded to Indiana: ‘Big time trade’

BREAKING: The Indiana Pacers are finalizing a trade to acquire All-Star F Pascal Siakam in a deal that will send Bruce Brown, Jordan Nwora and three first-round picks to the Toronto Raptors. New Orleans will be a third team in deal, sending Kira Lewis to the Raptors.

— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 17, 2024

Masai Ujiri turned OG Anunoby and Pascal Siakam into…

Immanuel Quickley
RJ Barrett
Bruce Brown
Jordan Nwora
Kira Lewis
First round pick
First round pick
First round pick
Second round pick pic.twitter.com/9nFyOfST3y

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) January 17, 2024

Pascal Siakam is on an expiring $37.9M contract.

He is eligible to sign a 2 year $81.5M extension with Indiana up until June 30.

The Pacers inherit his bird rights and can sign him to five year $247M contract in July.

Siakam is no longer super max eligible because he was…

— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) January 17, 2024

Pacers roster:

Pascal Siakam
Tyrese Haliburton
Myles Turner
Bennedict Mathurin
Buddy Hield
Isaiah Jackson
Obi Toppin
Jarace Walker
TJ McConnell
Andrew Nembhard
Aaron Nesmith

Top __ squad in the East. pic.twitter.com/5437AU964P

— StatMuse (@statmuse) January 17, 2024

Big time trade with Pascal Siakam going to the Pacers. So much to break down…@KeithSmithNBA and I will be live momentarily!

— Trevor Lane (@Trevor_Lane) January 17, 2024

There it is. End of an era in Toronto. Siakam was the last remaining piece from the 2019 championship core, and now it’s official: his iconic Raptors tenure is over. https://t.co/x33bE4jq2y

— Josh Lewenberg (@JLew1050) January 17, 2024

Haliburton + Siakam is going to be wild

— Fat Kid Deals (@FatKidDeals) January 17, 2024

3 first round picks for Siakam???? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

— 𝙏𝙚𝙯 (@TezFrm901) January 17, 2024

Haliburton/Siakam two-man game is gonna be a thing of beauty.

— Kevin O’Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) January 17, 2024

Siakam will fit awesomely in Indiana, and was one of the greatest Raptors success stories of all time.

— (((Eric Koreen))) (@ekoreen) January 17, 2024

Pascal Siakam was a great Raptor, full stop. He just aged out of where the Raptors are, now. He’ll be great in Indiana.

— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) January 17, 2024

Haliburton and Siakam is a nice duo.

3 first-round picks tho? For an expiring?

— 𝙃𝙀𝘼𝙏 𝙉𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 (@HeatvsHaters) January 17, 2024

Good trade for Pacers!!! Siakam can’t be 1a on a good team, let him be the 2nd or 3rd option and yall got a good team

— Isaiah Thomas (@isaiahthomas) January 17, 2024

I mean, I don’t know. It feels like the Raptors dropped the ball here from start to finish with Siakam.

The haul is … fine?? Considering the circumstances. But dealing with Indiana and not getting ONE of their young pieces is pure mismanagement by Toronto’s front office.

— Chris Walder (@WalderSports) January 17, 2024

Pascal Siakam was easily one of the coolest stories in Raptors history. Arguably one of the best development stories in basketball history. Will forever be amongst the best in franchise history. An NBA champion. The windex bottle laugh. A leader. All-NBA.

Indy got a good one.

— Esfandiar Baraheni (@JustEsBaraheni) January 17, 2024

New Pacers forward Pascal Siakam just got off a phone call with coach Rick Carlisle and president Kevin Pritchard. Siakam maintains his Bird Right’s with Pacers who are expected to re-sign him in free agency. Appears doubtful Siakam will debut for Pacers tomorrow at Sacramento.

— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) January 17, 2024

The inclusion of Kira Lewis from
New Orleans allowed Indiana to match Pascal Siakam’s salary without including another player besides Bruce Brown and Jordan Nwora. Pelicans had been looking to move Lewis dating back to this past offseason, sources said.

— Jake Fischer (@JakeLFischer) January 17, 2024

“I’m excited that Pascal is getting a first class opportunity with the Pacers, being paired with Tyrese and Myles and being coached by a great coach in Rick Carlisle. His future their looks bright there,” Pascal Siakam’s agent Todd Ramasar tells @andscape about trade to Pacers.

— Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) January 17, 2024

The best thing I can say about the Pascal Siakam deal is it’s better than losing him for nothing. They did well in OG trade, but this one is a fumble. Let’s see what they can get for Trent, maybe Boucher …

— Ryan Wolstat (@WolstatSun) January 17, 2024

Pascal Siakam trade is worth the risk, gotta do whatever it takes for Haliburton if you’re the front office

— Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 (@big_business_) January 17, 2024