Given the uncertainty on Jaylen's contract, the number of unprotected picks, and the fact that Bridges and Johnson are pretty good, this is a much better offer.
I imagine they would be open to dealing just about anyone if they could get the necessary return.
Well, this is for another thread moving forward, but it seems the two options for Jaylen will be him walking after next season or Celtics paying him 58 million a year. I think there’s a pretty decent chance he gets traded, which I suppose is the 3rd option. Anyway, it’s intriguing, and I have no idea how it ends.
The Cs are catching a small break here because they are done playing the Suns whereas Milwaukee has yet to play their two games with the Suns.
That is my guess as well.
Yeah, it’s really just a no brainer. A team like Phoenix can make that trade with no immediate risk and without it they aren’t going to win a title anyways. So now they have a couple more bites at the apple, and can probably even contend as Paul winds down.
If you're going to move this many picks, Durant is the type of guy that you do it for.
Yep a pick haul for Durant makes complete sense
I have no idea what he's doing either, but in this particular trade, he chose the correct guard IMO. Not just as a player but for the locker room. Westbrook is too intense for those cream puffs, but DLo only adds to the soft problem. Conley is the right guy.Yep a pick haul for Durant makes complete sense
or Gobert
Connelly needs to report to the Principle's office.
I have a theory that Ainge bent a little on the Lakers deal to get teams to deal with him again. He pulled off the two biggest heists of the last decade with the Nets and the Gobert deal. Plus hustling Philly on Fultz/Tatum.Yep a pick haul for Durant makes complete sense
or Gobert
Connelly needs to report to the Principle's office.
Am I the only one who took this as a dig to Durant being injured and around the team? Funny if true…..even funnier coming from Kyrie.
I'm not sure, but my immediate impression is that GS may be in serious trouble. They've been mediocre all year, with or without Curry, and now he's out for a big chunk of time, AND an the Lakers and the Suns are substantially beefed up.
You can never tell with the guy. He seems a lot of the time to have absolutely no idea what normal syntax looks like, nevermind what the words he's using mean. He may have just meant "I like KD and look forward to seeing him," he may have meant what you're inferring. I'd need a third eye to be interpretively sure
I wonder if they lose some luster as a destination franchise after all of this. They managed to hook two top 10 players and that failed rather spectacularly. We can blame it on Kyrie but I'm not sure the players will all feel that way. They likely won't have the draft capital to build that way, so it'll have to be trades and FA, primarily. I'm sure they'll still spend but it will be interesting to watch. It's kind of a redux from the immediate post-Garnett, PP years, where Marks was very good but the team still was far from championship caliber.
Not likely. If they remember anything, it’s that they catered to the stars and when they asked out, they were traded. KD even got to go to his first choice.
The point you made is still dubious though
First, I wish Phoenix had traded Cam Payne to Brooklyn, too, and the Nets should also have gotten Cam Reddish, to corner the Cam market.The point you made is still dubious though
While CP3, Booker, and Durant is a formidable top three, you need to round out your roster with more than stiffs. BOS has a comparable top three in Tatum, Brown, and take your pick of Smart/Horford/Timelord/Kornet and we can see what a difference having the Grants/Whites/Brogdons of the world makes.
They don't really have much use for their own pick for a while...so maybe? Where there's an explanation, it's probably a guesstimation.
I thought about this too. The Nets must have been engaged in serious talks with the Suns when they pulled the trigger on the Kyrie deal. And that Kyrie deal looks less great now than it did a couple days ago.
