Other team watches our playoffs too. Say if you're the wizards and you get #2 pick, would the other Rockets alone be enough to give up your #2.
Amen is a good defender, perceived value around the league is high. And as a defensive wing he has a place in the league, but his man just says off of him and go to whomever, be it Sengun or KD. It severely limits the team. His value is also perceived the highest, so if it's a blue chipper you're after, you might actually get one. A deal around Sengun or Reed is not going to let a tanking team give up their top prized pick. It's also not a way to gut your entire team for a lotto ticket. A team with a #1 pick might not even give it up for Amen alone and you might have to sweeten it with a later FRP. The other issue is I don't have faith in the development system here, so you kind of need a prodigy as a blue chipper, then see if the remaining guys can build around that blue chipper, because I don't think that guy is on this team. The blue chip prospect will grow slower here, but you hope their innate talent and previous coaching is enough of a head start where he can still outpace growth of others in his class, despite the development team here.
No way you get the high a draft pick without throwing in the 27 Phoenix pick at worst. You also will probably have to eat some bad salary.
Man Idk...your take is not illogical but I felt he was the player that improved the most and especially the one that stepped up the most consistently in the playoffs. I guess it would depend on exactly what we were getting back
I would literally drive KD to wherever the **** it is that agreed to this trade and drive back the 44m in salary or drive it to wherever it was rerouted.
Of the players we have under contract, I’d be ok giving up some combination of Adams, Capela and DFS for a pick, but it’s not a priority as we should have two pretty good picks coming our way next year.
I think the only way you get that level of pick for KD in this draft is if you're taking back a pretty bad contract. Unfortunately, the teams in that vicinity in this year's draft class who actually might want KD and where he might be willing to play have pretty clean payrolls right now. Maybe you could argue about whether Myles Turner/Kyle Kuzma counts as bad enough money for Milwaukee at #10. Even then, they would obviously only trade for KD if Giannis is staying, which looks very doubtful. Or, there's the Jazz with Lauri and JJJ, but I don't know if their contracts are bad enough to warrant such a high pick, I think their front office legitimately values both of those players even though they're overpaid. I might take back either of those guys for KD even without the pick though, honestly. Or perhaps a 2027 or 2028 pick to compensate us? But I think KD might throw a tantrum about being asked to go to Utah.
KD / Tari Eason for #10 which miraculously jumped to the Top 4 for the team that let the Lakers win by pretending Durant was injured / Myles Turner / Kyle Kuzma
Aside from a KD trade, don't really see how. We would be trading up for talent or adding talent so we wouldn't be getting draft capital back.
