This trade doesn't work, it would have to take out our cap hold on Jerami to get done. You have to attach more salary and there is no fucking way they should get pick 14. We should get pick 14 and they should get pick 27.
In three years the guy has played an average of 38 games and you have us trading our best two trade assets for him? This would go about as well as Bowie or Oden.
To get to where we're trying to get with Dame you have to be willing to take this big of a risk with this high of an up side.
Acquiring Zion would definitely be exciting... it seems exceedingly unlikely that it would go well for us, but if it did, it would go very, very well. His contract and injury history and general seeming lack of motivation makes me pessimistic it would work out, and it seems inevitable it would be a disaster on multiple fronts, but it would definitely be interesting.
This has such great ideas that I want to just make some tweaks and hear what you think. I don't think you're assigning enough value to Ant.
if youre going all-in and you can get zion williamson, then i guess you should make the move, as risky as it would be a lot of noise about pelicans willingness to part ways with zion, where there is a smoke...
Well I guess I'm dense, are you saying Nurk or Ant would possibly be gone in a separate trade so a Zion trade can't happen? Or are you saying it can't happen with picks since the draft is the 22nd but contracts match July 1st? Or are you just adding a note that it would be in July? Or noting it since then other trades and free agents movements possibly could be merged into the trade? I don't see why it matters if the trade is finalized June 23rd or July 1st. It gets reported the same either way at the draft June 22nd, the teams make the picks with intent to complete the trade officially a day or a week later. Happens every year.
Yes that a reasonable aspect of this trade and a risk of it. That's the only reason a player like Zion may be available though, if he was healthy more he wouldn't be available for #3. Embiid and others have come back from early career injuries to become stars, Zion has played at near MVP level. There's a lot of risk and a lot of reward.
CJ is not a stupid man, he knows how to spin shit. I know there used to be a way to find out the date of pictures, but I don't remember how to.
Embiid and others have come back yes, because they really wanted it, I really, really question if Zion wants anything more than 30 mil plus a year and having fun with hookers/porn stars, I have no interest having him on this team
