03-09-2021, 07:34 PM
(03-09-2021, 05:00 PM)HanspardShowerVoice Wrote: Let's take New Orleans. They have two legit young All Stars caliber talents, but they're 11th in the West because these two guys also largely play the same position and have the same skillsets and don't complement each other well. So in the offseason they could decide they're ready to hand the keys of the franchise over to Zion and make hm the focal point of the franchise and look to ship Ingram for young complementary building blocks to build around Zion for the next 10 years. If I'm the Warriors I'd much rather have Ingram than KP (in fact Ingram would be a pretty nice Durant lite with their core 3). If I'm New Orleans, a young nucleus of Zion + Wiseman + picks/pick swaps + dumping a bad contract (Bledsoe). If I'm New Orleans, I might not even mind so much taking Wiggins in the trade if it netted more picks in the deal (especially if I could leverage it for the TWolves pick). They need more 3D wings to put around Zion, and it's not like they're a free agent destination that would make them huge players in free agency in the next couple of years.
I don't see why New Orleans would trade Ingram. I think Ingram plus Zion makes a lot more sense than Zion and Wiseman.