BREAKING: The Washington Wizards are trading three-time All-Star Bradley Beal to the Phoenix Suns for Chris Paul, Landry Shamet, second-rounders
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Yeah Golden State was a unique situation. The owner was willing to spend in order to win
You can have an owner like Stan Kroenke for example in Denver who has unlimited money
He has money and he married the granddaughter of Sam Walton
If he wanted to he can just pay the tax and spend in order to keep winning
I think all parties involve like that trade
The Blazers would probably ask for more as KP isn’t worth moving down 5 spots along with a new deal.
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Many teams, big and small markets, but the teams that really draft well lean towards small. There are no championship teams built 100% through a draft, pieces are always acquired/signed, guys who were supposed to be a certain level in one place don't pan out and get new life in a reduced role elsewhere, veterans ring chasing after a decade doing what they were doing, players on prove it deals after injuries, etc.
It doesn't hurt them because if all of these guys panned out, they were not going to (super)max all of them to keep them, or afford to sign incoming players to supplement them the way Golden State supplemented the core they drafted.
Now this I agree with. I just don't think a hard cap is necessary if there's no ceiling for the true stars. Because then that creates a situation like the NFL where the players union is divided because there is too large of an economic gap between the Top 10 players and the bottom half of the league.
Kang Deezy
Overall Nice Guy
There’s no Porzingis trade
Stop being dumb
He’s gonna be a free agent
Stop being dumb
He’s gonna be a free agent
We can throw Monte Morris or Delon Wright in as sweetener
He ain’t getting $36M next season if he opts out
He doesn't have unlimited money. That's another thing brehs don't understand or don't want to understand for militant reasons. These owners aren't Gates/Bezos billionaires and for many of them just as much of their wealth is the worth of their teams as it is their other ventures.
Kang Deezy
Overall Nice Guy
Maybe he doesn’t, but he had a good year and stayed healthy, maybe he doesn’t make as much next year but if he can get a 4 year deal why wouldn’t he?
Be better.
The one man who was gonna give him a 4 year deal got fired two months ago.
Not sure of KP's market...
Kang Deezy
Overall Nice Guy
He will get paid.
Maybe he gets 4 years 120 million, idk
He can be signed and traded but that has to wait til free agency so he cannot be part of a trade involving a 2023 draft pick
He can opt in and extend though.
Kang Deezy
Overall Nice Guy
He could but that doesn’t match up with the wizards strategy and they wouldn’t be able to trade him for a year
If they don’t want to pay it they don’t have to, but just because the Charlotte’s & Indiana’s of the world are content with being mediocre and putting in bare minimum effort doesn’t mean other teams need to be punished
The Warriors didn’t buy their team through free agency. They drafted Steph, they drafted Klay, they drafted Draymond, they drafted Looney, they drafted Poole. Isn’t that what we want as a league? And now it’s a problem because a team is willing to pay a premium to keep their own homegrown core together?