RWBS - As for your desire to trade AD and strip the roster, no thanks. IMO that makes no sense. Talent is too hard to acquire, and having extra draft picks is NOT the easy sure path to acquire a team that can win. It's an endless cycle of futility to trade very good talent for picks that you hope one day, maybe, can turn into very good talent if all goes right. And it takes forever to turn the corner again. See Mavs, 1990's.
This team already has a TON of talent. Getting "a TON of talent" is a mountain that is hard to scale.
HOWEVER. Would I trade AD to get DIFFERENT talent, and lottery picks to also supplement things? Perhaps. In my book, it would depend solely on the offer.
My issue is less about his age, and more about the bang for the buck and the impact on the roster/payroll in general. His contract is massive (avg 58.5M over 3 seasons) and his ability to live up to it is not (since he only plays about 1/2 to 2/3 of the games). If he was making 30-35M, say, you could live with the missed games in favor of the upside, but at 60Mish he's gotta be able to put the team on his back and carry the load on a daily basis to be worth THAT sort of pay.
The weird thing about Nico's Luka trade is that Nico ran from the potential of Luka turning into that sort of situation, and yet traded him for AD who embodies the very thing Nico feared. What an idiot move on every level.
I share Nico's reluctance to be stuck with that huge contract that isn't contributing. So yes I'd trade AD (if I got the right value from someone with the rose-colored glasses and some top talent and picks to offer). But with talent this close, I'm looking for paths to the top that flow from trading AD, not the bottom.
This team already has a TON of talent. Getting "a TON of talent" is a mountain that is hard to scale.
HOWEVER. Would I trade AD to get DIFFERENT talent, and lottery picks to also supplement things? Perhaps. In my book, it would depend solely on the offer.
My issue is less about his age, and more about the bang for the buck and the impact on the roster/payroll in general. His contract is massive (avg 58.5M over 3 seasons) and his ability to live up to it is not (since he only plays about 1/2 to 2/3 of the games). If he was making 30-35M, say, you could live with the missed games in favor of the upside, but at 60Mish he's gotta be able to put the team on his back and carry the load on a daily basis to be worth THAT sort of pay.
The weird thing about Nico's Luka trade is that Nico ran from the potential of Luka turning into that sort of situation, and yet traded him for AD who embodies the very thing Nico feared. What an idiot move on every level.
I share Nico's reluctance to be stuck with that huge contract that isn't contributing. So yes I'd trade AD (if I got the right value from someone with the rose-colored glasses and some top talent and picks to offer). But with talent this close, I'm looking for paths to the top that flow from trading AD, not the bottom.
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