Kyrie Irving: we already named a city after him!

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Trying to get my arms around how you got likes for saying you wouldn’t have traded a pick—ANY PICK—for Giannis. Have you gone insane?

I know that poster doesn’t really mean it. It’s just the shock talking. Giannis is one of the seven best players in the entire history of the planet to step on a basketball court. Of course you’d give up an unprotected pick. And for all of you who didn’t major in economics (I didn’t either), the fact the pick is so far in the future means it has far less value, not more value. We may all be dead by then and the NBA no longer in existence.  Nothing the Mavs gave up is really a massive risk.  Just like with KP, it’s what happens after a big money commitment is made to Kyrie where the major risk will start.