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[F Gump]

I'm sure the idea had been brewing for a while but trading Luka wouldn't be received as poorly if the return hadn't been pitiful.  They've basically shortened the championship window of this team two years beyond this one if you are being generous and that's if you can get Kyrie to resign.  And in that timespan, you've got a few up-and-coming teams that will probably figure it out (even if it feels like we have OKC's number).  This year seems like a throwaway with the team in perpetual injury hell.  I really hope this goes poorly and they trade AD before the next year's TDL so we can recoup some assets.

"I'm sure the idea had been brewing for a while but trading Luka wouldn't be received as poorly if the return hadn't been pitiful." -- Well said.

" I really hope this goes poorly and they trade AD before the next year's TDL so we can recoup some assets." -- I think this will turn out to be a bad take, on 2 levels (but we will see). 1 I think AD is going to be so good that no one would want to trade him. 2 And I don't think you win by turning star players into a pile of picks (which rarely turn out to be as valuable as you hoped). The point of picks is to try to luck into a really good player eventually, so if you already have one, you are way ahead of the game and keep him. Just how I see it.