12-25-2023, 10:19 PM
(12-25-2023, 07:20 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: Big Christmas day for some former Mavs. If only....
The more I see some of these big multiple first trades, the more I wonder if it is best to keep your picks or look for guys who may only require one first round pick.
Look at Boston for a guy like Derrick White. It seems like a lot of these multiple firsts trades look better on paper than it winds up on the court. Not all, but a lot of them. While if you hit on a middle first round pick, it can be a huge goldmine. More risk to that though.
Not sure the point you are making about White. Some random observations on him ...
1 Would love to have him (now).
2 When BOS traded for him, he was JAG, a defensive wing, a player with a contract that was ugly for what he was showing.
3 IIRC there was also some element of "salary dump" to get under the tax line that BOS had targeted and was able to get when they swapped for him. But SA was likely dumping his contract as part of their thinking.
4 He was SA's Josh Green?
5 Something in BOS clicked for him eventually (they developed him better, or put him in a better role for his skills, or....?). But it didn't happen overnight.
6 The picks SA got for him have proved to be meh-to-bad, actually. But even as they were being traded, they didn't look all that special.