Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[cow]

Wowowowowowow

So the team with the most access to him as a free agent got conned into gifting him $40 million, guaranteed over two seasons and now the entire world realizes he's never going to suit up for them again...and they're hoping someone will just magically agree to take that contract off of their hands???!!!

I mean, I suppose they might be able to move him in a package for one of the 5 worst deals in the NBA or something crazy like that, but my GOODNESS do they have egg on their face right about now!

Also, at what point can everyone involved, the league, players union, whomever, admit that some of these fully guaranteed deals are hurting the product? I'm not saying the NBA should go full NFL with its contracts (the opposite is happening, honestly), but in situations like THIS, the team should have some recourse. They probably do in terms of real-world dollars, but I mean with the CAP.

I'm probably traumatized by KP's tenure here, well, we probably all are, but I can't wrap my head around the contracts he continued to get after the deal he signed with us ran out.  Even when he is healthy, I get irrationally angry watching him play basketball.

I do agree with your sentiment about NFL contracts and NBA contracts in that there should be a happy middle ground there somewhere though I wouldn't want the NBA infected with all the creative accounting that is done on the NFL side.  And a bit of an aside, but I have been thinking/wishing the NBA would adopt a policy regarding trading future draft picks that was more akin to the NFL (3 years forward).