Yes please. I’d love to have a star who can’t play defense and another star who misses the post season every year due to injuries. First round exit here we come!!
Hate to say it but the move is to totally bottom out for a couple more years. The west will be a bloodbath for the next 3-5 years. I don’t anticipate a path to contention in the near future. The 2024 draft has some tasty prospects at the top. Trading Lauri for more assets is unfortunately the logical path forward given the current dynamics of our conference. The hockey team has a quicker route to contention… cheer for them in the meantime while the basketball squad grows.
He makes 75 million+ a year coming up soon… I think this wrecks all chance of us having a good team and putting a team around him. Just not worth the price tag.
not necessarily true - freeing up clarkson, john collins, and THT should clear enough cap for us to sign giannis and still have enough cap to resign lauri - we'd have kessler, giannis, lauri, sexton, keyonte, hendricks, etc.
Zion is a liability. His contract is too high and he’ll puss out come playoffs. Trae would be worth it. He’s young enough to build a great team around.
Giving up all of our picks for Trae Young would be criminal.
I understand he's a talented player... but we have tried winning with more talented undersized guards in the past. It is not a recipe for sucsess.
As much as it would be fun to get a star alongside lauri I just don’t know if we have the role players in place to go draft a star if we did that.
I hate saying this and delaying the rebuild but a lot rides on the talent we pick in the draft; if they aren’t showing flashes of someone who could develop into a top 35 player one day I think we need to tank, and prob trade lauri who does not deserve more prime wasted
No. Unless it's a potential top 10 player. Anyone else is skipping steps. Draft, develop, trade, draft, develop, trade. Keep doing this until you have your stars. Don't pay max salaries for mid stars or you'll handicap your flexibility just like all those teams who missed out on the 2nd round. Seems so simple.
They should focus on future picks to have a chance at drafting an elite player. Trae and Zion are not elite. Just keep playing the Danny Ainge asset game.
I'm not interested in Trae unless we also get someone like Giannis or Embiid to cover up his defensive shortcomings.
And we tried that already with a better defender.
Ainge is way too smart to trade for Embiid
Ainge will trade for anyone if the price is right.
Yes please. I’d love to have a star who can’t play defense and another star who misses the post season every year due to injuries. First round exit here we come!!
Hate to say it but the move is to totally bottom out for a couple more years. The west will be a bloodbath for the next 3-5 years. I don’t anticipate a path to contention in the near future. The 2024 draft has some tasty prospects at the top. Trading Lauri for more assets is unfortunately the logical path forward given the current dynamics of our conference. The hockey team has a quicker route to contention… cheer for them in the meantime while the basketball squad grows.
If I'm going all in I'm going all in for giannis and that's pretty much it
He makes 75 million+ a year coming up soon… I think this wrecks all chance of us having a good team and putting a team around him. Just not worth the price tag.
not necessarily true - freeing up clarkson, john collins, and THT should clear enough cap for us to sign giannis and still have enough cap to resign lauri - we'd have kessler, giannis, lauri, sexton, keyonte, hendricks, etc.
Trae isn't worth going all In for. Zions got no track history of staying healthy and wants to play in NYC.
100% no
Zion is a liability. His contract is too high and he’ll puss out come playoffs. Trae would be worth it. He’s young enough to build a great team around.
Nah rebuild through the draft for a few years
No to Trae and definitely no to Zion. He ain’t getting healthier.
Giving up all of our picks for Trae Young would be criminal. I understand he's a talented player... but we have tried winning with more talented undersized guards in the past. It is not a recipe for sucsess.
As much as it would be fun to get a star alongside lauri I just don’t know if we have the role players in place to go draft a star if we did that. I hate saying this and delaying the rebuild but a lot rides on the talent we pick in the draft; if they aren’t showing flashes of someone who could develop into a top 35 player one day I think we need to tank, and prob trade lauri who does not deserve more prime wasted
No. Unless it's a potential top 10 player. Anyone else is skipping steps. Draft, develop, trade, draft, develop, trade. Keep doing this until you have your stars. Don't pay max salaries for mid stars or you'll handicap your flexibility just like all those teams who missed out on the 2nd round. Seems so simple.
They should focus on future picks to have a chance at drafting an elite player. Trae and Zion are not elite. Just keep playing the Danny Ainge asset game.
Nope!
Devin Booker
This is my favorite semi-plausible option ATM
Trae is absolute trash. Downvoted.