Re-Grading The BIGGEST NBA Trades From 2015-2020!
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- One of my favorite things about NBA trades is how the perspective of who won and who lost changes over time... and that is exactly what I cover in this video : re-grading the BIGGEST NBA Trade From 2015-20!
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When Phoenix got CP, they became what I thought Utah could've been when they got Conely
I had a feeling Conley wasn't going to be what they thought. Wishing him the best this year
Conley is terrific
@@alecm_9459 yeah, he is nice, but he doesn't move the needle these days for playoff success
Phoenix is a very different situation. Before CP3 got in they are a solid good defensive squad anchored with Ayton and Bridges fast improvement on that side along other role player pieces veteran talent. The Jazz when they got Conley are not a good defensive team to make up for weaknesses having a small back court and wing players who aren't athletic enough play help defense. So teams that do Gobert off the court or can play around him in the playoffs just wax the Jazz.
@@JustinRamsey76 isn't he injured
OKC essentially traded serge Ibaka for shai plus all the picks they have from the clippers
When did this trade happen
@@tj5180 it's a chain
To me any trade that brings you to a championship is an A+
Exactly
Well AD said he only wanted to go the lakers and the lakers gave up everything they had. The lakers basically got AD from being in the LA market and having Lebron from the year before, it’s not like they did anything special to get AD. It’s def an A though.
@@basketballaddict2885 yeah, thats fair. But you really never know what happens, players say one thing and then do another all the time
Not to mention the lakers are pretty crappy at developing young players anyway 😂
@@Htiy yeah the knock on the lakers in that trade is that they sucked for years and basically ended up with a bunch of top lottery picks that turned into Randle, Dlo, Ingram, and Lonzo. Then Lebron came and the whole timeline switched, and the lakers basically did nothing to develop those players while they were in LA. So it kinda felt like the lakers benefited from sucking for years and poor development, and ended up with AD and Lebron because of the market. I’m def biased tho Ima Celtics fan and I hate the lakers 😂
@@Htiy lakers are basically the Knicks but they actually attract top free agents 😂
Oladipo was unreal in the playoffs that year took the Cavs to 7 felt like he couldn’t miss
Fr miss that oladipo a 23/5/5 with 2 steals
Lebron could’ve lost to Oladipo or jayson Tatum that year lol 😂 oladipo needed to put the nail in the coffin in game 7 and everybody that wasn’t tatum just couldn’t stay consistent in the ECF. That was a good year
@@WtJah fr Tatum went crazy
@@WtJah I’ll never forget Tatum dunking on Lebron and then Marcus morris came in celebrating more than JT was
@@pstratos7 great series lol, remember, both teams only played good when they were at home. Both teams went 0-3 on the road going into game 7😂 I was sooooo sure Celtics were going to seal the deal at home
It’s wild the Thunder turned Ibaka into SGA and a bunch of first round picks
i think SAS should get higher than a D. poeltl and keldon johnson are really solid players and derozan played well for them through his contract
Also turned Derozan into two first round picks
Yeah i dont know what my man was smoking with giving sas a D
This is just someone that has not watched SAS when they had DeRozan and all the repercussions of the trade. I am a SAS fan and yes I can be delusional sometimes but I think that trade should be at least a C+
Poetl has been a great defender this season
SAS has underperformed in all areas since 2015. This was a fair assessment to me, as a Spurs fan too.
Man I forgot Ibaka was on the Magic at all lol. Trades like that is why Orlando struggled to get anything really going
Smh
Keldon Johnson is shooting 43 percent from 3 for the season. (Top 5 in the league).
Jacob Poeltl posted lines of 28/11/8 (vs. Washington) and 20/17/5 (vs. OKC) in his last two starts. He’s averaged 13.2 and 9.2 for the season. He considered one of the best passing big men in the league, and on “D” he’s referred to as “Blockob” Poeltl (1.8 BPG, Top 5 in the league) for his excellent rim-protection. All this on a 9 million dollar per year contract
Leonard’s Supermax is 39 million per year. vs. 11 million for both Poeltl and Keldon.
DeRozan is better in Chicago because of what he learned in San Antonio, and the fact that he’s surrounded by seasoned, top-tier offensive players. Spurs ultimately got two first-round picks and a second rounder back for him going to Chicago.
poeltl also has a game
@@jayvader9023 agreed!
Keldon is such a weird player tho wouldn't mind him on the sun's as a backup pf tho
@@silverfang4583 Definitely has tunnel vision driving to the basket. But he’s slowly adding moves to his midrange game. Truth is, he’ll benefit from having a true bruising power forward playing next to him in the future. Last year he played out of position at PF and this year he’s at SF with Doug MCDermott playing PF. So, he’s still getting too much attention in the paint.
@@timskaggs3762 yeah I mean a back up sf spot is always fine for the sun's haha.
But nah he seems good but he seems to go from shooting 40 percent to 57 percent game by game, is it just a case of him being asked to do more, or is he just inconsistent still
as a Raptor fan, I give Orlando an A+++, thanks for Ibaka... you make that Oklahoma trade every day, don't let anyone tell you otherwise
Terri rinella.. so I guess that made up for the magic robbin Toronto for TMac 🤷🏽
it was TMac or Vince, we made our choice and we're happy with it, and hey you ended up with Vince eventually too
@@jayalmo8831 touché. We raptors fans have always said Tmac leaving could’ve prevented a Toronto championship with him and vince
The Raptors needed that one player to get them over the hump and they did it. 100% agree that it was an A+ move.
Magic literally traded a future all star, future pretty good combo guard, and a decent trade asset at that time for a second round pick or sum for the greatest Congolese chef of all time
ridiculous to give spurs a D bruh, we flipped a superstar when we had no leverage for 3 years of demar derozan, two solid starers (one having the potential to be a future all-star) and now picks for the future
You could have have gotten what the Pelicans got for AD, and more, but Pop is petty and doesn't want to do business with the Lakers.
@@Montas19 I respect the level of pettiness
@@Montas19 not petty he just don't care for nonsense nor any of us Spurs fans
@@homermtz Magic Johnson offered Ingram, Ball, Kuzma, Hart, Zubac and every 1st round pick the Lakers had for Kawhi. How is that nonsense?
As an Orlando Magic fan, that Serge Ibaka trade haunts my fucking dreams, 3 centers… our gm was smoking something at that time
Turned out to be great for Sabonis and VO (I was ready to give up on VO at the time), but goodness that was bad. Their unwillingness to play AG at the 4 was so confusing
they should have gone all in. 15 center roster
Shocked that you didn't mention Butler to the Sixers or Butler to the Heat, they had pretty big impacts.
OKC is on here 3 times and could’ve been a 4th bc of the Paul George to Clippers deal
Sam Presti is good at his job (minus the whole James Harden thing)
@@evansmith8035 which really wasn’t his fault .. the organization told him not to go over the luxury so he had no other choice but to trade him .. still an L but yea
@@evansmith8035 you can’t have 3 max contact guys on the same squad and have depth. They offered JH pretty close to max and he turned it down. Not presti’s fault that he decided the owners said no to going that deep into the luxury over a guy that at the time wasn’t even a starter.
@@MrWesleyton 1: yes you can, look at the warriors now or really anytime in the past 5 years when heathy. It’s difficult but can be done, especially when your max players are resigned. 2: it’s not his fault the owners wouldn’t pay more, but Presti chose to pay Ibaka instead of paying Harden a little more to stay. He can’t control what money he has, but he can control who he spends it on, and he essentially chose Ibaka over Harden.
@@evansmith8035 1: he didn’t pay ibaka max 2: gsw got rid of their depth to bring in kd, but it worked that year. After he left they had to retool their roster, get klay back and get lucky that Poole turned into something decent. They had a dogshit year when they got wiseman..which wasn’t wise man. 3: Using GSW as an example Isn’t that smart anyway. They’re an established team from a big market.
Not sure how fair it is to say the Suns got Mikal Bridges since it was 3 years later. Feels like they made two separate trades, one a C and the other an A.
Jrue Holiday trade directly impacted a Bucks title that same year and we're talking about CP3 😮💨
DeAndre Hunter isn't the miss for the Pelicans. The miss is Darius Garland. They could have had a roster with Garland, Ball, Hart, Ingram, and Zion. I think Zion might be a bit more interested in his rehab if that had happened.
Honestly the way hunter played in the playoffs he was arguably the Hawks best player this series yea they missed out him lmaoo
@@johnwatkins6321 That's one series. He's barely been on the floor otherwise. I'll take the dude who made an All-Star team this year.
@@rome8180 How would a backcourt of Garland and Zo work? Zo is a playmaking first type of PG.
OKC drafted Serge Ibaka, traded Ibaka for two future All-Stars in Oladipo and Sabonis, traded those two future All-Stars for an established Super Star in Paul George, re-signed Paul George and traded him for his max value to get an absolute haul of
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
Danilo Gallinari
Tre Mann
The 12th pick in this draft
3 Future Firsts
2 Pick Swaps
All that for Serge Ibaka😱🤯
Forgot to mention, the Lakers offered the spurs an AD type offer for Kawhi. But Pop as petty as he is, went with Toronto’s lesser offer. Instead of having a core built around Brandon Ingram, they are the struggling spurs we know today.
Zion was in the same draft as Hunter, so the Pelicans didn't need lottery luck a year later, they could and should have just had Zion and Hunter with Ingram, Hart and Ball
you fail to realise that jrue was on that same team. I can't blame them for wanting to get a center instead because hunter was not getting much minutes.. HOWEVER I DO FAULT THE PELS FOR DRAFTING NAW i like naw he's a nice guy but he's not the guy that the shots he takes may suggest.. and i hate innefficient shot chucking..
The CP3 trade may have been the trade of the century. It didn’t result in a chip but it was risky and it worked out so much better than expected.
It was a big trade but not the trade of the century. Off the top of my head Thunder-Clippers, Harden to Houston, Celtics-Nets and even the Love-Wiggins trade are way more important than the CP3 one
Celtics nets might beat it, I’ve never seen a team get fleeced that hard lmao
Kings should get a b to an a for the cousins trade looks pretty nice now
That was another one that everyone was convinced was an awful deal.
Cousins is going to be so weird to look back on historically in 10 years
@@SportingLogically for once Sacramento actually looks smart which doesn’t happen often
Crazy that the Magic, OKC trade lead to Grant in OKC. You should do a deep dive on the trades for those teams. Results are Haliburton to Indiana. Maxey got Philly. OKC got Shai.
Fun fact, the 2015 NBA Draft is the most recent draft where all of the lottery picks were the teams original picks, and no after or during draft trades.
Paul George trade underrated imo it also got the clippers kawhi
As a clippers fan, i love how we got Paul George.
But i fucking hate kawhi
@@alvininthechipmonks don’t disrespect the big dawg like that
@@youalreadyknow5003 fuck kawhi. As a clipper he hasn't done shit except blow a 3-1 lead, the year after he just won a championship in toronto. That bubble season was shorted, he already was being load managed, and the bubble was literally supposed to be his best friend and he blew it. Kawhi refused to travel to Phoenix game 5 last year because it was "too far" with his injury, which at the time we thought was just a sprain, not a tear. He's happily taking his time, sitting on ass collecting his paycheck the same way he did in San Antonio. Fuck Kawhi.
@@alvininthechipmonks bro he couldn’t do everything himself. They were doubling and tripling him, I think you should hold PG, the bad roster fits, and Doc Rivers accountable as well
@@alvininthechipmonks doc rivers blew that lead and nobody even wanted to do the bubble but leFlops team. And kawhi was with the team when they were playing the suns. U really don’t know shit… U can hear and see the commentators talk about him while pg was going off. He partially tore his acl. Not a sprain u clown.. go tear ur acl and come back and drop 30ppg on the playoffs… f kawhi? F you casual
It took just one season for kawhi to become the greatest raptor of all time.
You were really off in your analysis of the Kawhi trade. We got a few years of really good production from DD, Poetl is a semi-monster for us, KJ is at least a great 3-D guy, and like u said KL wanted outski so it was good to get what we did…HoWEVER like u mentioned we got another 1st Rd pick from that as well. Also We needed to move Derozan for our guys to develop anyway so good for him that he’s ballin out
Sam Presti turned Serge Ibaka into Paul George, which is impressive enough, but then it turned into Shai Gilgeous-Alexander + 5 unprotected first round picks
Probably one of the best front office and scouting department in the league
Cp3-Westbrook trade bugs me to this day as a Rockets fan
The suns got CP3 basically for a bag of Taquis and a fruit punch Gatorade 😂
@Kevin Green right 😂
Spurs have to be at least a B now, Keldon Johnson has developed into something nice
You say that there wasn’t any other trade other than the AD Trade worth considering but what about PG to the Clippers, given that it essentially meant getting Kawhi as well. All that draft compensation for two arguable top 10 talents.
Lakers won a chip from that trade. Clippers haven’t done anything but blow a 3-1 lead and then have Kawhi be injured most the time. It’s not even close
If this vid was made today you’d have to throw the Wiggins for Dlo trade in. Like the Anthony Davis trade you get the ring, but the warriors actually were the ones who received the first round pick for them and then Wiggins was the second best player on a title team.
Dlo was pretty good for the wolves start of the season. But was really bad vs Memphis and is likely at least being shopped for trades this off-season
Good job Orl... Being a magic fan I was so damn mad when they traded for Sabaka I was screaming at my TV...
I give the Spurs v Raptors trade a B since Keldon has blossomed and even more so if the Spurs trade Poeltl and get more picks.
I distinctly remember both sides of the cavs-celtics fan base saying they won the trade. Crazy to think about now.
Part of that Ibaka trade too is that okc picked the player with the magic draft pick. That wasn’t Orlando picking a great talent and moving him. There was nothing leading up to the draft that Orlando wanted or needed sabonis there. A very good player was drafted at that spot bc it was okc’s front office picking the player, so that matters too
Tucker loves the Paul George to okc trade. I get why because there’s so much to follow and crazy to think how all that lead to what it did is insane.
people act like the lakers still owe a ton of first round picks but LA only owes 1 first round pick and a pick swap after this years draft
Tucker, the Suns also got Abdel Nadar. Never forget.
As a huge oladipo fan and a huge pacers fan i was a huge fan of the pg trade and i even made an article predicting hed average 20+ but sabonis was shocking
The only thing I would say about your grading is that you're grading the trades themselves, but you forgot to look at how trading Anthony Davis was the main reason why the Pelicans ended the year with a horrible record, and as a result of the tanking, they end up with the #1 pick Zion Williamson. Had they not traded AD, they would not have Zion right now. So although that is not actually part of the trade, it is definitely something to consider of how things worked out due to making the trade.
I think Thunder deserves an A for the CP3. People forget that CP3 was essentially a salary dump for houston to get Westbrooilk
The Pelicans would have drafted Hunter With Zion. To go along with Hart, Ingram & Lonzo. That starting 5 would be crazy right now
Lol it would not work. BI and Hunter are not playing the 4 and Zion isn’t playing the 5 at 6’6.
Zion was the same offseason as the Davis trade
As a spurs fan I still stand by that the Kawhi trade wasn’t that bad because they had little leverage and he would have left for nothing next year
Or Pop could have traded Kawhi to the Lakers for Ingram, Ball, Hart, Kuzma, Zubac and all the draft capital the Pelicans got. But he is petty and doesn't want to do business with Lakers.
I’m not sure how accurate this was but the Lakers were offering Ingram for Kawhi at the time to pair with Bron but that Pop turned it down out of not wanting to send him to a conference rival. If that is true then that itself is an F cause they could’ve had an all star level young talent by now
Bingo people fail to forget that, the lakers offered a lot to get kawhi and pop basically flat out said no and sent kawhi to the raptors instead
“Not like Toronto gave up a ton to get Kawhi”
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I’m a pacers fan, when the PG13 trade happened I sat on the side of the road and threw coins at cars while crying. Little did I know😂😂
Yooo that first pic of AD IM WHEEZING
that season they got the easy path , the 2nd ring from an oddly easy path on LeBron's hand
The Orlando Magic effectively traded Paul George for Terrence Ross
Love ur vids pels nation for life
What are your thoughts on the Jimmy Butler trade(s)
The raptors fleeced us
SAS gotta be a C now
Keldon is getting better by the day now poetli is a solid starting C and Derozen was great for us and also was able to get picks for him in the end
Can you do a part 2 on this looking back at some other fun trades over the years?
You should a video on the clippers, how are they closer to getting a 6th seed than out the playoffs. I don’t think anyone expected them to be there. Is it the coach or the players? 🤔
injuries…
The Thunder pick in 2022 via suns is going to be a very very late first round pick
Okc turned Russ into cp3 into offloading 40m off their books and getting multiple picks. The Lakers are going to have to eat the Westbrook contract or give up assets to get rid of him. For Sam to be able to net a positive return off of Russell wanting out, you have to give that an A+ when it comes to creativity.
Especially whenever George wanted out at the same time and we turned that into SGA, five future firsts(#12 this year), gallinari(which flipped into cash, 2rp, 20m in trade exception) and two swap rights. That in itself should’ve been considered one of the most lopsided trades ever.
Demar with the spurs- game 7 loss in first round- play in loss
With the bulls first round in 5
Out after the play in..
I remember sixringsofsteel saying the suns wouldn't even make the playoffs
the reason the ad trade became worse is because of the decisions following the title win. they made horrible decisions pover and over again
Man i hate that Miami couldnt fit Gogi on the roster this year we miss him.
What's crazy is if AD stayed in New Orleans and if they would have still had a top pick they would have drafted Ja over Zion
In hindsight absolutely they would have, but in 2020 Zion Williamson was the biggest name in basketball - period. The THOUGHT of drafting anyone over him was ludicrous and I remember reports from the time of the pelicans trying to use Zion to entice AD to stay.
@@leonbrumett6155 Also, Zion is still transcendently good when he’s actually playing
Jaylen Brown next video Sporting Logically 🙏🙏🙏
What about the Derick Rose 🌹 Trade from the pistons to the Knicks last year.
Jrue to Milwaukee is an amazing trade
That was a really nice content
Can’t wait to see how harden goes with Philly
He’s back
You should have included the Luka and Trae trade
You should have included the Warriors trading D'Angelo Russell for Andrew Wiggins and the first time pick that became Jonathan Kuminga.
Wiggins has become a top-tier wind on both offense and defense, and has improved from the worst wing defender to one of the top three or five, as well as improving the three-point percentage from like 33 34 to 41. He's shrunk his mid-range game from something like 40 to 45% of his shots down to half that while also getting marginally more accurate in the mid-range.
And currently, Jonathan comming is one of the top two or three rookies. Per 36, he's the leaving scorer among rookies by 2.2 points. He's the most athletic among the rookies, with Incredible dunking but already has the savvy not to just try to take it to the cop and jam on everybody who faces. He uses on his athleticism as a threat to open up a variety of layup finishes and has even started doing interesting things passing out of the low post. He's already a plus defender and everything about his work ethic and his willingness to take charges, dive after loose balls, box out, and generally make the right basketball play tell me that he's going to be I think he's got a higher ceiling than Wiseman, even though I still think Wiseman, echoing his trainer who also trained LeBron James, cp3, and a couple other hall of fame players, is himself if you're all star and potentially a future hall of famer in the mold of Giannis.
Seriously, Evan mobley is fantastic, but guys like cage Cunningham and jalen green have not proven to be worth their high draft position, whereas at number seven, dominga is proving far more valuable. There's a reason he was the early projected number one pick for next year's draft before he re-classified his junior year to be his senior and move up his draft year.
The Warriors are not only retooling from the current Big three to put together an incredibly exciting young core for the next 5 to 10 years, but the same rookies, sophomores, and 30-year players are proving valuable now and will be valuable role players in the Warriors post-season run. Coming more than anybody except Jordan pool, but moving ahead, I think flamingo will be the superior player and everything except play creation.
I agree with all that except the cade Cunningham take he has been playing way better lately like a number 1 pic is supposed to
@@mellothirty Is he? Ok, I haven't paid much attention to his stats the left month or so. He wasn't terrible but wasn't wowing anybody during the first third of the season.
@@MrBrachiatingApe LOL Mobley is like the 3rd/4th scoring option of his team. Cade is like the 1st even when he struggled because he had nobody to play off from and when Jerami Grant finally came back. Despite that he's putting up respectable numbers at high volume WHILE commanding the defenses primary attention. He was out of summer league so his reps were cut short but his Dec/Jan splits were pretty good. I'm glad y'all not only don't pay attention but don't look into context either but do you anyway. Also Wiggins is in a good spot now because he's not the first/second option like he was in Minny. He was never cut for that so he gets to be efficient with a more simplified role.
@@MrBrachiatingApe yeah he’s playing good hes top 3 in the rookie of the year race
Just curious why didn't you talk about the first russ trade and the 2nd George trade?
That FRP to the Thunder will be 30 at this rate...
What is OKC doing with 100 draft picks? Video on the horizon?
Weird that you didint consider the KP trade as a big trade unless you mentioned it and i missed it.
I’d give San Antonio an F I blame Greg because Kawhi wanted to go to LA and It was reported that the lakers had a godfather deal for them and lakers had so much young assets it’s insane They could have gotten Randle Ingram Kuzma and picks or a mismatch Any of those 3 with Greg’s coaching would have at least put them in a solid situation Than getting a worse player in demar and jakob Greg just got petty and ended the dynasty he started Because if Kawhi won a championship and left I find it extremely hard to believe with the power and influence Greg had He wouldn’t know that’s where Kawhi wanted to end up
It was reported kawhi wanted to go to the lakers but Greg wasn’t gonna allow him to be traded there so they shipped him off to Toronto instead
So you telling me that the Magic indirectly basically couldve had SGA + a billion picks or Haliburton + more from Sac?
The magic really got ibaka and the dollar store version of him im bismack byombo in the same offseason to over stacks the team with bigs smart
CP3 A+??? Looking back now it's a B+
12:10 what do you mean Zion a year later? The pels had already won the lottery before the Davis trade there was no "potentially" getting Zion.
So goran dragic led to the phoenix suns getting Kevin Durant
In the long run many of those trades are not even close to A or A+, plus many of them didn't even win a title or improve like OKC from that PG trade, first round exits are not good, plus he bailed almost right away..
7:16 man, that time when kawhi dont want to play in san antonio and traded to toronto was a wise move given the fact that san antonio wont give its rival their star player but in 2022, if you really think about it, san antonio could give kawhi to one of la teams and exhaust their draft picks so that they could be stuck and no assest left. and it could cause them problems along the way. Like that is a jackass and brilliant move.
I think the lakers get a b and the pelicans get b+ in the AD deal but other than that it's good grades
Porzingis trade?
If you wanna know how someone's not built to win, go watch what Aldridge did in the final seconds of game 7 against Denver in the 1st round (2019).
So embarrassing 😤
So just skip the Jrue Holiday trade that brought the bucks a championship aight
thank you. people who say the Anthony Davis trade was a fail for the Lakers are psychotic. They won a title, that makes it worth no matter what.
Were these really the biggest trades then?
All the picks😂
Plus with that Powell trade you’d expect the Clips to be good now and those thunder picks won’t be high at all LOL Let’s go clips🔥
My Rockets traded Chris Paul still hurt we could have still be contenting for a championship
the talk about the 2019 trade aged terribly
Deandre hunter and Zion Williamson are in the same draft my guy 😅
The Lakers got crazy lucky and landed the 4th pick in that draft (NOP got 1st and got Zion). That 4th pick went to the Pels in the AD trade
@@SportingLogically I know but in your video you say that if they could’ve gotten deandre hunter and “A YEAR LATER gotten Zion “ that’s why I say that
Oh I gotcha haha
Dragic trade is win/win I guess. Thing is the onus is on the team who gets the picks to make out of their best luck with it since that shit isn't guaranteed. So for the Suns to get Mikal Bridges 3 years after with those resources is pretty good. The Heat got guaranteed service out of Goran even through those weird times when Pat Riley was doling out these 3-4 year semi expensive deals to guys like Whiteside, Tyler Johnson and such thinking that they would be great trade pieces to land someone big. That wasn't the case sadly.
OKC clearly won the Ibaka trade. You know what OKC got afterwards and it paid forward 4-6 years later that deal . Ibaka was set to be a UFA so Magic had to cut their losses and all they got for flipping him to Toronto was Terrence Ross and a late 1st pick.
Lakers still win the AD trade. They got what they wanted with a chip and two top 10 guys to build on. The only problem is screwing up on a sure thing with the support cast which Pelinka botched last offseason and letting go of the wings that helped the big two to be one of the best defensive teams in the playoffs. Pelicans did get some talent in return but people gotta understand that AD straight up was helping carry the Pelicans to playoff contention by himself. He however can't do shit by himself IN the playoffs. Ingram/Hart/Ball couldn't even get the team to a last playoff spot. Can't depend on Zion either since he's got his own issues.
The CP3 trade to the Suns is obviously a boon for them on short term. But its not like he was carrying amazing value as he had specific landing spots and his contract required certain high priced assets to be moved. So its another one of those plays for Presti and OKC to find as much margins as they can out of that trade. So far Presti has flipped those assets he got into Poku (real intriguing piece), Ty Jerome (still unknown) and a series of future picks.
you can't say the lakers "won" the ad trade right now.. they did get what they wanted tho.. and i guarentee you ad is not carring the pelicans to playoff contention by himself now.. or in 2021 so what's the point of that?
Jrue Holiday to the Bucks? If he wasn't there they wouldn't have won the championship in 2021
I’m wasn’t somebody that criticize the bubble ring but looking back at it now. I’m comfortable saying the lakers would not have won the championship in 2020 I don’t believe AD stay healthy.