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[Scott41theMavs]

Two other things can be true...  1. it was a bad return and 2. it ends up being smart to not sign him to a super-max.

Yeah, you can make an argument for trading him, but it should have been for SGA, another significant player for OKC, and 8 of OKC's future 1st round picks. You don't trade a top five player in his prime, but a million times more, you don't trade him for virtually nothing.

When Nellie traded Penny Hardaway and three first rounders for Chris Webber and then that disastrously didn't work out, he traded Webber for Tom Gugliotta - and three 1st round picks. Nico mortgaged the future to build around Luka - and then threw away Luka without doing a damned thing to get that future back. Since medieval torture is not allowed, he should at least have to live on the streets for the next four years.