Hate to say it but I'd imagine that's exactly the territory he's in. Maybe a different story if he had skill to fall back on other than just leaping out of the gym for blocks, lobs, and putbacks but if those days are gone I can't imagine he'll have much to offer. Sucks.
Yup. Conflicting feelings for sure. Glad he locked in that contract, something IT didn’t get to do here.
IT never got his brinks truck, though. But he did get a few more NBA contracts. Came away with $34.4M for his career, and he's only 34 years old now. But man, did Danny dodge a bullet when IT4 rejected his offer of 3 years, ~$100M on an extension. Would've really hurt the steady roster-building success we've had the last 5-6 years.
Did he really? We’ll never really know, but if that contract ended up a barrier to trading IT to Cleveland that probably would have been a good thing. The Cs wouldn’t have ended up with an under-performing Kyrie, and Danny might have ended up keeping Brooklyn’s 2018 pick and drafting Shai - who he apparently prized in that year’s draft.
We’ll never know about that team because of the catastrophic Hayward injury. It changed everything. I’ve always felt that it accelerated the development of Tatum/Brown but it also could have cost this team a ring at some point. Of course, Kyrie probably would have screwed up either scenario.
True, who knows? But I agree, I’m pretty confident Kyrie would of somehow screwed it up regardless.
