2021 FREE AGENCY: Markkanen wants out of CHI | DAL "definitely interested"

[Jommybone]

Doesn't matter. When a team lets the kind of guy we're talking about go, they want a HAUL. Are Milwaukee's picks going to be good? No, but that didn't stop New Orleans from holding out for FOUR of them (plus pick swaps in between, I think) for Jrue Holiday. 

Needle-moving trades are EXPENSIVE.

I am not blind to your point. But I wonder if recency bias might be informing it. The choice isn’t FRP vs. no FRP. It’s the loss of a future pick during Luka’s contract and likely to fall in his absolute prime (so not likely a high pick) vs. a below-market contract on a talented big who misjudged the now-dried-up market and is about to go somewhere cheap.

I don’t pretend to know which is more valuable. Maybe Lauri will never be able to defend my gramma. But I don’t see a future, Luka-era first as a very big price to pay regardless of what we’re getting for it.