(5 hours ago)Smitty Wrote: That’s kind of my point though. To the ones that say trade Kyrie, that’s perfectly reasonable to me, but then you ask yourself “what’s the return”. The typical answer is a top 10 pick. Again, reasonable ask. BUT it takes two to tango.
Who in the top 10 is trading for Kyrie on draft night? If I squint really hard I can see one, and that’s if they keep Giannis.
Okay, now all of those ducks have to line up... Milwaukee has to get a longterm commitment from Giannis the next few weeks, trade their negative value contracts for salary matching, and pick 10 for Kyrie, who’s coming off an 18 month absence? That’s their all-in move?! That’s Masai’s first move in Dallas?
It’s just fantasy land to me… There’s only ONE potential trade partner.
The TDL is the only realistic timeline for everyone involved, and that’s 9 months away. Yet “trade Kyrie” is sometimes dominating draft thread talk…
I mean it sounds like you and I are saying basically the same thing. I have not seen that much trade Kyrie talk in the draft thread, but the concept of trading Kyrie in general is worth talking about. In another thread there is a conversation about win now versus building for future, and a willingness to trade Kyrie (now or at TDL) is probably the biggest separator of what side of the fence folks stand on.
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