Everyone acting like there isn't a tax trading with your crosstown team and the fact this is the most unique team chemistry play... Ever? When the fukk have 4 college teammate champions played together? (No Arcidiacano)
for Mikal Bridges????
A great trade for the Knicks.
Mikal is easily an 18-20+ ppg bucket on most nights.
Everybody thinks OG is gone but maybe he'll resign on a discount depending on his desire to be in a winning atmosphere which I think he seemed to enjoy playing in the Big Apple.
The Knicks gonna be tough next season.
Not the best player they could have hypothetically gotten but absolutely the best roster fit they could have made without drastically changing the identity of this team. The only other player of his ilk in this league is OG (highest level 3&D with size) and they’re about resign him too.The point is the opportunity cost of using those picks on Mikal. This is the Knicks' all in trade. The question isn't will Bridges be better than any of those draft picks, it's is Bridges the best possible player they could've got for all those picks?
I'm not even necessarily saying it isn't the best use of those picks, as there's a lot to like about this trade, but i'm not quite sure it's a totally transformative blockbuster trade that immediately takes a team to the next level. Which is what that kind of pick haul usually results in. But maybe the Knicks don't need that much more to get better, i dunno
You’re assuming that a team doesn’t come in with an offer that will be hard for him to turn down.Not the best player they could have hypothetically gotten but absolutely the best roster fit they could have made without drastically changing the identity of this team. The only other player of his ilk in this league is OG (highest level 3&D with size) and they’re about resign him too.
Its a win now move with an incredibly deep and defensive minded team. The team you saw lose to the pacers and fight hard against the sixers, that’s our bench now.
No team can offer him what the Knicks can. I refuse to believe they did all this, just to let him walk.You’re assuming that a team doesn’t come in with an offer that will be hard for him to turn down.
He’s too young and with an injury history to be leaving money on the table already.
He really fukking is.Leon Rose is a MONSTER