Plausible destinations for our vets?

LeBron got 50 million reasons not to complain about his roster.

 

He only has 4 rings.

That's one short of Kobe and two short of MJ. You think he's content to just chill?

 

there's 50 million reasons to chill. And he got his kid a 4yr contract.

 

His net worth is 1.2 billion. Do you really think he gives a shit about collecting an extra 50 million and not even trying to win?

 

Hollywood has perks:
-Celebrity hob-nobbing
-Nice weather in winter
-Scott Foster's whistle

 

He’s gotta make sure his kid is set up. LA is probably best for him because lord knows NBA basketball isn’t. And LeBron seems like a bit of a helicopter parent (not wanting his kid to tarnish the brand)

 

Even if you’re worth 1.2 billion, 50 million is a lot of money,

 

And how much would he make on a team that's trying to win?

 

As he should...

A lineup of Scoot, Sharpe, Avdija, Grant and Ayton has the potential to be pretty damn special.

 

But you realize the organization won’t let that happen, right? Not this year, anyway

 

I'd much rather have Suggs than Anthony. Probably not a possibility though.

 

I wouldn't consider a starting lineup projected as a bad lottery team to be "damn special"

 

Scoot and Sharpe would have to both take quantum leaps forward.

It's a bit ironic, that our best player right now is probably Avdija.

 

that's only fair....the Blazers traded their best player for him

 

The BLAZERS are projected as a bad lottery team, but mainly because it's expected that they won't allow that lineup to happen. That lineup with a good-to-great coach is at least a GOOD lottery team.

 

I don't know why the Wizards did that. It's not like they needed to "tank".

I thought it would be a playoff team giving up a first for Brogdon.

 

two first round picks, quite possibly both in the lottery, for a player at the Brogdon/Grant level (RoCo deja vu?). Now, there's the upside factor since Avdija is 23; also the factor that he's on a budget contract for the next 4 seasons (guaranteed the Vulcans love that). The Wizards may have fucked up...they have that capacity. But apparently they evaluated Avdija's upside quite a bit lower than our optimistic takes out here

a lot of people did. Instead, the Blazers had to add two 1st's and two 2nd's to Brogdon to land Avdija. That may be predictive of the trade value of Grant-Ant-Ayton

 

I love how you sell it now as a potential lottery pick with value, but when we had acquired it, it was so far away that it's value was diminished. And you wonder why I consider you always a glass half empty poster.

 

I didn't sell a thing. I said it was "two picks, quite possibly both in the lottery". Is that false? And I was CLEARLY saying that in reply to another poster by talking about what may have motivated the Wizards to make that deal