Trade & FA 2025-26: Free Agency Starts 5pm CST/6pm EST

[cow]

Whatever you think the trio of Kryie, AD, Flagg window is, we can almost assuredly write off next year. Kyrie's going to miss the beginning of the season and we are going to struggle to stay afloat without him even if all the pet cats this board has purposed come to fruition. And even when he is back, I don't think he'll be 100% until the following season. Flagg is also a very young, inexperienced rookie and if we need to erase the thought that he could have a Luka like impact on the team. He'll almost assuredly be better than a rookie Dirk, but I'd wager he's closer to that than a rookie Luka (hope I'm wrong). That doesn't even factor in the coin flip that is Anthony Davis' health. So if we are counting on the following seasons as being the contending years, that gives you a 34 and soon-to-be 35 year-old Kyrie and a 33 and soon-to-be 34 year-old AD for that first seasons and assumes the rapid ascension of Flagg. And then you look at the landscape of the West with OKC and Houston leading the way and SA seemingly ready to compete along with the rest of the aging old guard..I just can't see us as a true contender. It seems painfully obvious we should look to do what what of the finals teams did after the success and fallout of the KD/Westbrook/Harden trio. I know Nico isn't going to do it, but being a play-in/late seed playoff team seems like a road to nowhere.