Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[dirkfansince1998]

I find these whole arguments so lazy. Washington was also a loser his whole career until he came to the Mavs. Sometimes elite 3rd/4th option players are just in situation, where they are asked to do too much, because they are actually the best player on a bad team. What´s Sexton supposed to do on the Bulls? Let Patrick Williams shoot the ball instead? Was he a bad player on Utah with Markkanen. No. They were basically 0.500 every year until they shamelessly started to tank after the All-Star break. Is Anfernee Simons a winner now, cause he was on the 56 wins Celtics last year, who got worse, when they traded him for Vucevic? Guys that repeatedly put up 19 PPG on 50/40/90 shooting cannot be bad players. Is Coby White a winner now, cause he went from the Bulls to the Hornets?

If we sign Sexton for the MLE, eat Poeltl´s contract to acquire RJ Barrett and pull a Herro out of our a**es for Thompson + Middleton + Martin, we got

Irving / Sexton
Herro / Barrett
Flagg / Marshall
Washington / Johnson
Lively / Poeltl

I bet you we win 45 games semi-healthy, Sexton averages 16/4 off the bench on high efficiency with bad defense, but suddenly he´s a winner.

And I trust large scale data points like 5-year RAPM over message board wisdom. Sexton is a Trae Young level defender. Large sample size. No reason to assume that he can or will be any better.