12-01-2025, 12:34 PM
(12-01-2025, 11:34 AM)DanSchwartzgan Wrote: I really don't get the infatuation with a bunch of picks (especially those people arguing for a bunch of 2026 picks.
There is no value to being bad after this year. Kuminga as an asset is much more valuable than Portland's middling first (if it stays a first) and another middling first from Chicago. There is a chance he and Flagg are a really dynamic forward combo for years to come. Even if you don't like the Kuminga/Flagg combo, I think you try to rehab his value in a new setting, opt him out this summer and sign him to a longer term deal. Now you have a trade asset that is much more valuable than an extra Chicago pick.
We need players on Flagg´s timeline and we especially need a legit 2nd star. This is a generational draft, where you´ll be guaranteed to find very good players in the middle and late 1st round. The whole plan is to find the 2nd star. Nothing else matters. We have Lively and Christie as excellent young rotational pieces/starters. We need that 2nd star. This is the best draft to own four top 20 picks, two in the lottery, to make this happen. Plus Dillingham and Essengue are still completely unexposed former lottery picks.