what...? The value is that someone else may take Turner, that's about all it's going to be good for...
Well, they should at least try to use it to get rid of Turner. If anyone is dumb enough to take it then I'd be happy. I don't know if anyone is, but it won't stop me from wishing.
The other point is that a first round pick - no matter how useless - still gets a guaranteed contract. That alone would make it worthwhile to dump the pick for a couple 2nd rounders.
Is RJ Barrett really settling into a clear top-3 pick? I'm not sure he was even the 3rd best freshman on his team! (I'd take Reddish over him, and the PG might have been better, as well.) Ignoring the Canadian link, he looks like another Wiggins to me.
They can't use the 25th pick to dump ET. That shipped sailed at the trade deadline. No team has cap room and no team is going to give up future cap room for the 25th pick. To get rid of ET we'd have to attach a 2020 1st sometime after about July 10th.
Does that mean we probably keep our pick and draft a player and then when the free agency is done after two weeks or so we can trade Evan + 2020 pick ?
I am really intrigued by Bazley. I especially like how he measured out at the combine. I am always in favor of developing young players even for contending teams. With Simons, Trent, Bazley, Skal, and Collins that's some serious potential. Not all of those guys will pan out most likely but I like the balance of that group because it covers every position and you have both offensive and defensive talent. If we keep the pick it would really help to get lucky and find a potential breakout player. Now that Dame is about to be locked up for 6 years we can still build a good rotation while having guys who could eventually pop like Simons and Bazley.
No not necessarily. We can still trade our pick and ET for close to equal salary coming back or use it for someone like the Mason Plumlee trade with the Nets. We just won't be able to fully dump a contract that way.
I know this sucks but if the goal is to add another star player then it doesn't make sense to dump expiring contracts. If the goal is to open up the Full-MLE then maybe it would, depending on the trade and who we were able to sign.
If we were able to make a trade like ET and a 2020 1st for Prince or someone like him on a rookie deal that could solve a lot of our problems.
All, draftexpress is now hiding behind the ESPN paywall, and nbadraft.net is only OK. Where should I be going for my mocks and other info?
Don't know why I never noticed this before, but are you a forum admin or something? I believe Xen Foro is a forum software package based on php (could be wrong about that). Here I go derailing to nerd again.