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And all it will take is some mediocre picks. EFF THEM PICKS.

In 4-6 years, prime Reaves, Christie, Knecht, and Kessler will be contending for a chip next to an aging like fine wine AD doing a Tim Duncan impersonation who at 38 years old was a huge contributor to a championship team!!!

 

the problem is that irwin amplifies any information that could be construed as a criticism of the front office, rob in particular. it makes it really hard to listen to him about anything. it's like fox news, tbh. not meaning to get political, but everyone can acknowledge the bias there, right? same with irwin. so "vando as backup center" sounds insane, and he amplifies it. now, utah also saw vando as a backup center before they traded him, so i'm not entirely sure that irwin didn't hear something like this. but the idea that this is plan A is total b*******. it's like, plan F.

again, jj wouldn't have publicly expressed interest in a big center if his whole idea was to play vando at center. one of his ideas might be to play vando at center (i hate it, but i'm just a rando), but it's not THE PLAN. moreover, it's not ROB'S PLAN, which is what irwin wants to peddle. he's probably mad rob made the DFS move because it undercuts his persistent, stupid narrative.

 

i'm missing some context here, but as someone who's been protective of trading future picks, i think you're strawmanning a bit here. i don't think anyone believes that old AD/reaves/max/knecht/kessler is anything but a 13th place team. but in terms of asset management, moving 1sts for young players (who might later be moved for replacement firsts as necessary) is a much better strategy than moving firsts for old guys who will cease being useful and thus turn to dust, asset-wise.

this is why i'm ok with two firsts (with protections, of course) for kessler, but not for jerami grant.

 

As I've said before: I'm okay with trading the firsts for an ascending player under 30 with a bright future and already a history of proving he could play at the NBA at a high level. That's fine. I'm not okay with throwing a first an older player with a smaller shelf life.

Sure, we don't know if those firsts will amount to anything, but if history indicates anything, we're going to need them if we want to land impact pieces in the future. Hopefully All-Star pieces will good enough players/contracts to make it work.

Let's see what happens.

By the way prayers out to Los Angeles. Really sucks to see that beautiful part of LA just destroyed to absolutely nothing. Such a shame.