You're gifted a player like Zion on a silver platter, last thing you want to do IMO is to double down on some Hail Mary trade. Dont need to make one with two max slots, two extra first round picks, and some good young players under contract who might not be a long term fit, for whatever reason.

If Perry and Mills cant build a contender with those assests, without possibly trading Zion.
Then maybe Ive been too generous with the compliments. Hope this is a lot of hoopla, to put it nicely.

Nope

Jmpasq wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:

GustavBahler wrote:So all the tanking, losing, was for a player who has missed his share of games over his career, and one year left on his deal? Anything but the first pick. Not this draft.

Two fing max slots, and you cant find players to build a team around Zion? Really hope this story is BS.

Yup. If we get the #1 pick then no. #2-#5 then yes. I don't want Mitch going anywhere either.

Mitch should be off the table. Unless its a 1 for 1 deal im not trading for AD. im not gutting the roster

Agree - no mitch!

Need to hold onto Frank or DSjr too, imo. Frank for his D and LACK of offense or DSj for potential inc ase kyrie gets hurt, wihch he will.

Im ok with keeping Zion too.

Mitch
KD
Zion
Kawhii
DSj

That works pretty nicely too.

so many options...really starts with who is the pick!!

ankurk wrote:In the event that we get number 1 it would be much wiser to keep zion and trade future picks and our youth minus zion and mitch for a veteran on a losing team like jrue holiday or kevin love.
Keeping zion on a rookie deal for years to come is the best asset we would have
How about offering for brad beal? The wizards need a reset badly and it might mean letting go of him.
DSJ, Knox, 2 future firsts + whatever else minus mitch and zion

Kyrie, Beal/Jrue, KD, Zion, Mitch is a lot better than anything else we can put out there

Nalod wrote:Lakers now have more juice to make trade for AD if he won’t resign with Nola.

I don’t see NOLA dealing AD to LA. They had their chance and turned it down. Why give the Lakers AD and then have to face him every year? They can send AD East to the Knicks and still get great value!

nixluva wrote:

Nalod wrote:Lakers now have more juice to make trade for AD if he won’t resign with Nola.

I don’t see NOLA dealing AD to LA. They had their chance and turned it down. Why give the Lakers AD and then have to face him every year? They can send AD East to the Knicks and still get great value!

I don't think they want to trade him to LA, mainly out of spite. However the problem is that LA helps drive up the price for us, which is why I don't want to trade for him if it's a big package deal. It's shades of the Melo trade all over again, where the Nets drove up the price, and we ended up with a PF and a SF and nothing else. talk about history repeating itself.