01-29-2026, 10:53 AM
NAJI played hard yesterday maybe its because he is showcasing. I hate the idea of losing a guy who has been instrumental in our winning so much under the Luka years but if we do trade him off there has to be a high pick coming back not worse than the teens. With that pick I would take a 2nd PG if we acquire another good pick in that range.
Stirtz may be available at 19. That would give us a PG sized PG in Stirtz and if we took Wag with the first pick we would get a wing sized PG.
Add those guys to a rotation with Max and Kyrie and you have Kyrie coaching his replacement for a few years to groom a special future and in the meantime the 1/2 rotation is not suffering from lack of size and we can defend the other teams PG better. Yeah we would lose NAJI but we would still have PJ to use as a PF and hopefully next season he is over his GF troubles and shooting 3's better.
Trade off candidates to add more picks: Klay, DLo, Hardy, Cisse, Ryan, Brandon, Lively, Gafford and anyone not deemed to be a keeper. Some of these might even warrant a good player coming back as well. Lively needs to get healthy first so we can see him play a bit more because he may be a keeper. If we add 2 PG's in the first that would be good enough to warrant trading off one of either Brandon or Ryan. Maybe we keep one of Cisse or Gafford. Cisse may have created enough interest in his game.
Keepers: Cooper, MAX, AD, Irving
Trading off other pieces to develop 2nd round picks would allow us to add the best available big in the 2nd if we can swing that to help us improve that additional need for a replacement to AD. We can help AD out and enable him to rest and play managed minutes as he helps to groom his replacement and hopefully lower mins would reduce his injury risk.
Stirtz may be available at 19. That would give us a PG sized PG in Stirtz and if we took Wag with the first pick we would get a wing sized PG.
Add those guys to a rotation with Max and Kyrie and you have Kyrie coaching his replacement for a few years to groom a special future and in the meantime the 1/2 rotation is not suffering from lack of size and we can defend the other teams PG better. Yeah we would lose NAJI but we would still have PJ to use as a PF and hopefully next season he is over his GF troubles and shooting 3's better.
Trade off candidates to add more picks: Klay, DLo, Hardy, Cisse, Ryan, Brandon, Lively, Gafford and anyone not deemed to be a keeper. Some of these might even warrant a good player coming back as well. Lively needs to get healthy first so we can see him play a bit more because he may be a keeper. If we add 2 PG's in the first that would be good enough to warrant trading off one of either Brandon or Ryan. Maybe we keep one of Cisse or Gafford. Cisse may have created enough interest in his game.
Keepers: Cooper, MAX, AD, Irving
Trading off other pieces to develop 2nd round picks would allow us to add the best available big in the 2nd if we can swing that to help us improve that additional need for a replacement to AD. We can help AD out and enable him to rest and play managed minutes as he helps to groom his replacement and hopefully lower mins would reduce his injury risk.