05-04-2021, 04:20 PM
(05-04-2021, 03:05 PM)cow Wrote: The ship has sailed on KP being healthy and returning equal value. He also is not as transcendent, dominant or impactful as an AD or Embiid so having him for 60% of your games isn't as easy of a pill to swallow.
As far as who would want him, I think the list will be pretty short. It needs to be a team ready for a championship push and not risk averse. I don't really see the desire for an up-and-coming team to trade for him which is why the Charlotte idea doesn't make a lot of sense as they'd be much better with organic growth at this stage of their team's development. Maybe you look at bottom feeding teams but none of those team names jump out to me as being a fit either. Maybe you could sucker the new Rockets ownership...
I believe several teams would be interested, it just comes down the price. If the asking price is the moon, well then no team is going to want him. There aren't enough stars to go around and KP has enough upside to be considered a star or near-star.
I have brought up the Wizards as an example before. Like would they trade their whole team + picks for KP to create a big 3 that is actually an interesting basketball team? What's their other option? Beal and Westbrook are both all-stars that won't be around that much longer, Beal in particular. KP would make that team pretty interesting.
I bring them up bc there was an article that the Wizards were "monitoring" the KP situation earlier this year. Again if you are the Wiz, what's your best chance to create a 3-star team that people actually think has a chance to do anything?
That's just one example, not saying Mavs would be interested in Wiz pieces but there are others (GSW oft mentioned).