05-04-2021, 09:37 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...
It is too early to make this call. If he goes ham in the playoffs (ideally leading to at least second round) injury free then his value shoots up. Recency bias will have teams imagining what he could be for them and willing to swallow his load management and injury issues. The irony is that if that happens the FO will probably have similar mentality and it will be less likely they will want to move him.