Trading away a 26 year old best center in the NBA and the most dominant low post presence since Shaq and Omri Caspi for Hield, protected 1st, a 2nd, Galloway (PO in 2017), and Tyreke Evans expiring.
I think it was a matter of trust. I think this designated player deal was made so teams don't lose guys like LeBron James; immense talents who are leaders and make their teammates better. Cousins wanted that kind of deal and so he was acting like he loved Sacramento so he could get it. But they were worried what he would do once he got it. Would he start demanding a trade and would he start slacking off (which he is very capable of doing) until he got traded. And with a huge contract and questions about his desire, who would trade for him? Would they get any more then than now? And why wait two years while the team continued to stagnate? Not sure if Sacramento had any good choices.
No. I don't think was the worst trade in sports history. Danny Ainge wasn't involved. I actually would have loved to have seen his bsst possible offer.... a bottle of aspirin.
Guys, i need medical help! wtf is this?!?!?!?! WHAT THE HELL NEIL? you couldn't offer the same shit?! give them all our picks in the draft unprotected, give them Crabbe. Just wtf?! i'm so mad right now.
There has to be growing belief inside the GM circle that cousins may be hard to re-sign. You don't want to leverage our future on Cousins, that's exactly what the Kings did and look at where they are now. If we can land him in FA - Yee Haw. But as far as making a trade, I certainly don't want to be the franchise with egg on their face.
This is 2017. 99% of the players you'll bring in with a trade might not re-sign with you. Even the "good guys" are scumbags.
But they got nothing back. They would still get nothing back in a year. I honestly believe teams would let them dump Cousins salary on them in a year comfortably, because this is what this effectively is. Kings dumped Cousins salary on Pelicans in exchange for an average player a mid-first rounder.
This is because the Kings didn't want to pay him 200 million. Which is fair enough. I don't think Davis and Cousins complement each other very well. It's not exactly Robinson-Duncan. But we shall see. Also:
Just be happy he's not going to the Warriors or something. And it'll be funny when he's being paid $30M and Nurkic kicks his ass.
The flip side of this: we Blazer fans wished we would have traded LA for a lottery pick prior to him bolting. So if the Kings thought DMC wasn't going to resign this was a good trade.
He was on record all year saying he was going to resign since he was eligible for the extra $30 million in Sac. This isn't a LA situation, this is a guy that wants the cheddar.
It doesn't look good at first blush, but the trade can't be judged for a couple of years. Does DMC stay? Does N'awlins win with AD and DMC? Does Heild turn out to be a great player? Who knows.
The fact that Hield got traded for a dude he flagrantly fouled in the crotch somehow makes the trade worse.
Maybe, but LA said the same thing didn't he? Anyway, just measuring on the scales of talent, yes, this was massively lop-sided. I wonder if Olshey was in the hunt? He could have offered Ezeli and 2 draft picks.
I think that CBA rule wasn't in place for LA so he wasn't walking away from a huge amount of cash. If you look at the Cousins quotes from this season, there is no doubt he wanted that coin. I have a feeling Neil is one of the GMs that was saying DMCs attitude was toxic.
Why would the Kings dump him then? They were already poised to get a lottery pick. Highly unlikely they will land a player of his calibur for a long time.
