Sup pals. AD Sucks.

[DL2RimRocker]

Trading for AD was actually somewhere relatively high on my wishlist but I would have viewed him as the final piece alongside Luka and Kyrie. At this point in his career he is a guy who needs his workload managed cautiously or his body breaks down immediately. With Luka you had a dependable perennial MVP candidate in place who could take over the majority of the burden on a nightly basis while Kyrie and AD fill into the spots around him. With LeBron being on the verge of retiring I am sure there would have been a time and a place for a trade like that. It would have been a great fit for a few years.

But here we are doing the dumbest trade in NBA history with an insanely fast collapse of a team that had just gone to the finals a few months earlier. Still absolutely insanse how this all went down. What is the teams record since the trade? Must be somewhere in the bottom 6-7 of the entire league. 

Nico Harrison and Patrick Dumont are literally the dumbest GM / decision maker pairing in NBA history. Two absolute clowns.

The worst thing is tha it will all go downhill even further once AD and Kyrie have gotten older and the team will be enter the years without their own draft picks. Things look bleak right now but their first round pick offers a safety net. From 2027 on that wont be the case anymore.

Sadly, the best thing that could happen this season is to be the worst team in the league by Xmas and Dumont does the smart thing and fires Nico. AD plays every game and averages 25-10 and is all-star material by the TDL. The new GM comes in and trades AD at TDL and receives a young player with an upside and multiple picks in the process. Mavs tank the rest of the season and end up with a top 3 pick.

I still like the idea I read (I think it was Mavs MoneyBall):
Ivey/Harris/LeVert/2027 (1st)/2029 (1st) for AD

Imagine a lineup of: Kyrie/Peterson/Flagg/PJ/Lively with Ivey/Christie/Klay/Naji/Gafford coming off the bench.

Not sure if the numbers work to make that deal but maybe FG or someone can provide some input.