TripleThreat wrote:BRIGGS wrote:TripleThreat wrote:Bonn1997 wrote:If Durant was healthy is available in any way or shape or form, you'd have to immediately do this trade.
If OKC actually put Durant on the block, there would be 31 teams interested in him and only Anthony Davis and LBJ would be considered not on the block. Any other player in the league would be open game for any type of trade. Any type of future asset.
Correction, if Briggs was running the Knicks, there would 30 teams gunning for a once in a franchise type moment game changer situation that they will all fight for, and one team that would apparently trade future assets for a guy named Porzingas, but not a 26 year old MVP in Kevin Durant.
If Sam Presti traded Durant now, and only got a first overall pick for his trouble, if the Knicks got it, under Brigg's bizarro world scenario, his name would be burned in effigy in sports lore like Mario Mendoza and Mike Mamula and Tommy John. I'm not sure Presti would be able to get his kids out of the city before someone shot out their kneecaps and blinded them with a blowtorch.
Lol your posts get more bizarre per entry. I'm sure NBA GMs are in the business of paying top dollar for damaged goods. If I remember just a few years ago we took a100 mm risk on a player who the MDS said don't do it. Go do some homework on this injury One lottery pick. Can you give me some kind of comp for your absurd scenario where a team gave up a potential number 1 pick for an injured player? You talk a big game but I find that your basketball facts and knowledge are very limited.
For Briggs and some of you, a Jones Fracture = A Bullet In The Head
And that's simply not the case.
What's absurd and bizarre is your insistence that OKC will trade Durant while currently injured, they will do so to the Knicks, as if they would have no other options, and would only do so for a PICK THE KNICKS DON'T EVEN HAVE YET AND MAY NEVER HAVE. How can you call anyone else absurd when you are talking about a pick the Knicks don't even own yet. Ted Stepien was stopped from trading future picks his team had a right to, you are trying to outdo Stepien by protecting a projected No#1 overall pick the Knicks haven't even won a draft lottery for yet. Against 75 percent odds that they won't get it, if they even stay on course to be the worst record team in the league.
Kevin Durant is a 26 year old MVP, a high IQ player who is essentially a 7 footer with elite long range shooting. Even at 80 percent or even at 50 percent, his talent tier is so high, he would still be a bargain as a risk for future injury for, the Inception like trade rape in a trade rape scenario Briggs has concocted by parroting some NY writer, a single first round draft pick.
NBA GMs are in the business of trying to make their teams better and to win a championship. Again, we are talking about a 26 year old MVP, whose intangibles are off the chart ( good leadership, handles the press well, humble, well liked by team mates and around the league, extremely marketable, would cause interest in any destination franchise to go through the roof) and whose production floor ( a floor spacing Stretch 4 gunner with an elite 3 point shot and high IQ passing in the high post) is so high, that even at a percentage of his former skill set, if it came to that, would still be a valuable asset to any team.
You want me to give you a scenario where someone gives up a future No#1 they don't even have yet for an injured player in a trade?
After I just pointed out, exhaustively, that injured players in Durant's situation don't get traded until they stop being injured, that the Knicks might not win the draft lottery, that OKC would have little to no incentive to trade Durant right now, and if they did, they'd have better options than the Knicks and would get a far higher return than your single draft pick Book Depository/Single Shooter conspiracy theory, and since Durant has leverage, that there is nothing linking him to NY, and if there was, he'd be entering one of the worst possible franchise situations possible.
You want me to prove to you why a trade scenario you concocted, with so many factors making it unlikely ( unlikely is a very generous word here, no chance in hell is probably more appropriate) is plausible and makes sense when you constructed this bizarro shot in the dark trade rape in the first place?
Briggs, only you could be such a gigantic idiot here as to come up with a far fetched trade rape trying to protect a pick the Knicks don't even have yet and OKC would never make and then demand I prove you why it's not a far fetched trade rape. Except in your bizarro version, OKC would be trade raping the Knicks because apparently Kevin Durant is like a piece of trash dumped on the curbside.
Say what you want to take shots about my basketball knowledge, go ahead, but I know this much
If you had a chance, even in a far fetched trade rape in a trade rape Inception scenario created by Briggs, to get a 26 year old MVP/Olympian/scoring champion/top 3 franchise player with off the charts intangibles in Kevin Durant for pennies on the dollar, even with injury risk and even at risk for trading a potential first overall pick, then you run, not walk, you leap up and you snatch that deal. When you get the rare chance at a game changing player, a franchise changing player, you take that risk.
What are the odds of Durant coming back from a Jones Fracture?
Dude, what are the odds that you would get a chance, any chance, in your franchises lifetime to get a proven 26 year old MVP and future Hall of Famer at, factoring in your far fetched trade rape scenario, pennies on the dollar?
