2024-25 Team Developments: Trades / Free Agents / News / Rumors / Ideas

pretty sure phx can't aggregate salaries in trade, so that's one reason. the other is that two years from now, we'll wish we hadn't traded reaves for durant.

sorry, i actually don't love the all-in-on-the-present deals when lebron keeps breaking down. like, what are the odds lebron makes it through four rounds of playoffs at this point? all moves need to be thinking about post-lebron. durant's exit will coincide with lebron's, and it will be soon, imo. don't want to be on the hook for that extension at all. this is why they're being lowballed. it's the right choice.

 

I get not wanting to overpay, but there’s this idea that standing pat is neutral, like it preserves the status quo. That’s not really true. Doing nothing might actually mean getting worse. The West is getting younger, faster, and deeper. Our core is not. So at some point, playing it safe becomes stagnation.

 

eh, i was here a year ago when not cashing in assets for jerami grant was death.

we have luka. let's not screw up two years from now for marginal upgrades. we weren't a rui for collins away from beating minny.

 

See that’s my pushback argument. Kevin Durant allows LeBron to not have to go all out. You satisfy LeBron while at the same time satisfying Luka. That’s my thought. I don’t care what anybody says we need that outside shooting to make teams stop keying in on Luka only way you do that is get Kevin Durant who makes teams have to decide what they are going to do.

one thing Indiana doesn’t have is a Kevin Durant who makes you pay for loading up inside.

Kevin Durant signs the extension with us.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/article/lakers-reportedly-made-trade-offer-042007049.html

 

Rob will be gone inside 2 seasons no matter what he does. You don’t pay 10 bils to have people you didn’t hire to run your state of the arc business model.

 

Please keep Durant away. Trying to get rid of Lebron is hard enough right now.