(07-20-2021, 11:59 AM)Mapka Wrote: The braindead thing is to give two fringe starters on good contracts for the nineteenth pick, a negativ asset in Knox and a secondround pick you can definitivly buy this year.
I expect Nico to make better deals.
Brunson is an UFA next summer, but hey who needs an asset, when we can let him walk for free, cause that worked so well the last 10 years. I expect Nico to look ahead further than his next breakfast.
Kleber averaged 5 points and 4 rebounds in 27 MPG in the play-offs. The year before be averaged 7 points and 7 rebounds in 34 MPG. You know the healthy version.
You can find a PF/C every summer for $9M to do that. The Knicks picked up Taj Gibson from the street and he did exactly that in the play-offs this year.
So a GM should pass up a chance for an (in his mind) franchise altering draft pick, because of a bench player that averages 6/6, whose production you can find every summer and on the buyout market in March.
Yeah that is braindead indeed, but congratulations I move you up to the #1 spot for user most likely to be Mark Cuban.
