De'Aaron Fox Traded to Spurs for Zach Lavine, three first round picks
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While true, we had sucked for so long at that point, that part didn't even enter my thoughts haha. We did Cousins dirty, and even through all of his antics, he didn't deserve that. I like professionalism, pride myself on it in my day to day and work life, and I like to see it for the teams I support as well. We have been a lot better at it lately, which gives me peace lol.
I’m not suggesting that she or any other team employee for that matter should have ripped the star player. But openly saying that the wants and wishes of the star player (and his family) being fulfilled is a positive thing while choosing to overlook the downside of the deal and the detriments to the team/franchise that employs her? That’s something entirely different.
That's VERY much not true. You can be sad about Sochan/Castle, because prospect(s) but Keldon and Vassel aren't close to LaVine. Like not even the same realm.
I'd love even one paragraph of any sort of data to back up this claim.
And before you rip me as a "OMG MONTE LOVER FAN CLUB GUY", i rated this deal a 5.5/10. Hardly a ringing endorsement.
I'd love even one paragraph of any sort of data to back up this claim.
And before you rip me as a "OMG MONTE LOVER FAN CLUB GUY", i rated this deal a 5.5/10. Hardly a ringing endorsement.
Old photo. It has now been published on Bleacher Report:
https://bleacherreport.com/articles...-lavine-reunion-after-kings-bulls-spurs-trade
https://bleacherreport.com/articles...-lavine-reunion-after-kings-bulls-spurs-trade
This is not a ringing endorsement for making LaVine the centerpiece of the return for the Kings though.
If folks can look past their hate for De'Aaron Fox and relief that this nightmare scenario is now over, I think they would see that this deal is on the low end of the return we were all hoping for. It sucks that we got backed into a corner but we needed to come out of this with one significant asset -- a good young player on a rookie contract, a future unprotected lottery pick. Something to give us hope for the future. We swapped Fox for a veteran who was very recently available for salary filler and the throw-in's were two first round picks that are likely to be in the mid to late 20s, and 4 second round picks.
Now granted I'm way down on LaVine but personally I don't see him as asset. And even worse, he's dangerously close to being a liability. What's the over/under on his games played for the next 3 years? I'm guessing he averages 50 games a year and we're going to be paying him $138 million in that time frame. He and Monk are going to torpedo all chance of this ever being a top 10 defense again. This is a prelude to a rebuild and all because someone in our front office is too impatient to take a small step backward in order to have a brighter future.
I don't know what else was out there -- maybe this is the best we would do given Rich Paul had already knee-capped us by telling everyone who would listen that Fox would only re-sign with the Spurs. But even if that's true, I'm not going to celebrate this as a win for the Kings. Our team got even worse on defense, older, more fragile, more expensive, and our window for trying to compete is probably done. We'll play out the rest of the string on LaVine and DeRozan. I hope to God we just let LaVine walk at that point. Maybe by 2031 if Minnesota sucks we'll have two lottery picks plus whatever we manage to flip Sabonis for.
If folks can look past their hate for De'Aaron Fox and relief that this nightmare scenario is now over, I think they would see that this deal is on the low end of the return we were all hoping for. It sucks that we got backed into a corner but we needed to come out of this with one significant asset -- a good young player on a rookie contract, a future unprotected lottery pick. Something to give us hope for the future. We swapped Fox for a veteran who was very recently available for salary filler and the throw-in's were two first round picks that are likely to be in the mid to late 20s, and 4 second round picks.
Now granted I'm way down on LaVine but personally I don't see him as asset. And even worse, he's dangerously close to being a liability. What's the over/under on his games played for the next 3 years? I'm guessing he averages 50 games a year and we're going to be paying him $138 million in that time frame. He and Monk are going to torpedo all chance of this ever being a top 10 defense again. This is a prelude to a rebuild and all because someone in our front office is too impatient to take a small step backward in order to have a brighter future.
I don't know what else was out there -- maybe this is the best we would do given Rich Paul had already knee-capped us by telling everyone who would listen that Fox would only re-sign with the Spurs. But even if that's true, I'm not going to celebrate this as a win for the Kings. Our team got even worse on defense, older, more fragile, more expensive, and our window for trying to compete is probably done. We'll play out the rest of the string on LaVine and DeRozan. I hope to God we just let LaVine walk at that point. Maybe by 2031 if Minnesota sucks we'll have two lottery picks plus whatever we manage to flip Sabonis for.
