02-10-2026, 02:12 PM
(02-10-2026, 02:00 PM)cow Wrote: I do wonder how much the Luka trade impacted the value of the franchise.
I think this is important because doing the deal for Luka (trade with ATL) made the team too good, too fast. They had been trying to find the next star to lead the post-Dirk years (remember Monta Ellis and Harrison Barnes?) and fell all the way back into the lottery. But Luka instantly changed the script and accelerated the timeline, so they swung for the fences by trading everything they could for an injury KP. But that never worked and the team seems like it has been playing catch up since.
FWIW, it finally feels like that pressure is gone and now the team can proceed based on a level playing surface.