De'Aaron Fox Traded to Spurs for Zach Lavine, three first round picks
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I'm not a fan of the trade either. Lavine was considered one of the worst if not THE worst contract in the NBA as recently as last season, and we get him + 3 non-lotto FRPs.
Spurs fleeced us. SA probably offered Monte a FO position after Vivek invariably fires him next year.
Teams are gonna average 150 on us, but at least we're reuniting a duo that couldn't even win in the Eastern conference.
Spurs fleeced us. SA probably offered Monte a FO position after Vivek invariably fires him next year.
Teams are gonna average 150 on us, but at least we're reuniting a duo that couldn't even win in the Eastern conference.
Stop. Any deal Monte made was a losing proposition for you. You’ve already made that clear over the last few years.
The fact of the matter is Fox handcuffed any deal by making it known he was ONLY going to San Antonio. No team was going to give up any real assets for a year and a half of broken hand Fox to get nothing in return. I love Fox, hell I bought 3 colorways of his signature shoe, but I don’t believe we had a lot of options. Certainly your Houston proposal was never on the table. I will ask you this, If Monte swings some of the draft capital for a wing like Cam Johnson does it make the trade more acceptable to you? When are you going to talk to your “buddy” to find out what Monte turned down for Fox so you can tell us how bad a GM he is?
The fact of the matter is Fox handcuffed any deal by making it known he was ONLY going to San Antonio. No team was going to give up any real assets for a year and a half of broken hand Fox to get nothing in return. I love Fox, hell I bought 3 colorways of his signature shoe, but I don’t believe we had a lot of options. Certainly your Houston proposal was never on the table. I will ask you this, If Monte swings some of the draft capital for a wing like Cam Johnson does it make the trade more acceptable to you? When are you going to talk to your “buddy” to find out what Monte turned down for Fox so you can tell us how bad a GM he is?
Kings get a pretty big TPE.
Man, I dunno. I'm glad we at least got to see a sample of LaVine being healthy and good this year, because I'd been SO against him the previous couple seasons. I think this just got to the point where we were forced to take what we could get because Fox forced his way to SA and the rest of the league knew it. And he's just not at the level where a team will strip their assets to take that risk. The little nugget that the entire league knew he was going to SA, if he didn't get the All-NBA tag, is just ****ing heart-breaking to hear tbh. So we were just screwed either way.
I give it like 5.5/10. We didn't get fleeced, but we should have done significantly better as the team trading the best player in the deal. Context I think got in the way of that.
The KINGS surrendered to the demands of terrorists, plain and simple.
Now we’ve got Morgan Reagan spinning things talking about how great it is that ”good people” got to go where they wanted to go. SMH. GTHOH.
I’ve been a Morgan fan for a while, but that is as terrible a take as there is. Let’s just survey all the team’s players and graciously send them wherever they want to be too. Let’s lobby to the NBA and all these other pro sports to terminate the draft process so everyone can go wherever they want and so SAC will no longer be able to field a team since most everyone wants to be in one of like 6 different locations.
The NBA is supposed to be a business. And the KiNGS are supposed to be prioritizing their own best interests, not best interests of the assets they are sending away.
My guess is that Morgan has befriended Mrs. De’Aaron Fox over the years and is speaking from a biased friend POV rather than from an objective journalist POV.
Sad.
Now we’ve got Morgan Reagan spinning things talking about how great it is that ”good people” got to go where they wanted to go. SMH. GTHOH.
I’ve been a Morgan fan for a while, but that is as terrible a take as there is. Let’s just survey all the team’s players and graciously send them wherever they want to be too. Let’s lobby to the NBA and all these other pro sports to terminate the draft process so everyone can go wherever they want and so SAC will no longer be able to field a team since most everyone wants to be in one of like 6 different locations.
The NBA is supposed to be a business. And the KiNGS are supposed to be prioritizing their own best interests, not best interests of the assets they are sending away.
My guess is that Morgan has befriended Mrs. De’Aaron Fox over the years and is speaking from a biased friend POV rather than from an objective journalist POV.
Sad.
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