"Death to the Pessimistic State of Mind" - Nas Voice: NYK '23 Pre-Season Thread
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Peter Popoff
Baba Yega in black uptowns
The Lakers have a 27' and 29' draft pick. W'Brick getting 40 mil a year. nikka no.
And? You find the right team that values those picks and think the Lakers will be shyt and of course you can get a deal done. Again, let’s not act like expiring contracts don’t have value in this league.The Lakers have a 27' and 29' draft pick. Brick getting 40 mil a year. nikka no.
firemanBk
The Manslayer
They don't have as much value as they used to now that the contracts are shorter
Especially Russ since his salary is so extremely high there aren't many players he could get traded for straight up
Like I'm sure Miami would love to come off of Duncan Robinson's contract but they can't trade him straight for Russ cause Russ makes like 3x more
You can cobble together contracts to do so if you really wanted to. We just saw it with Gobert’s contract and the Lakers did it themselves to get Russ.
Trades aren’t made in vacuums. Westbrook isn’t just an expiring. He’s a bad fit on a team with a very short championship window in Lebron who have no way to replace him this year and a very poor way to replace him next summer. Everybody who they negotiate with knows that. I’m buying out his salary so that you can get better the only way you can. That’s gonna have to cost you.
Whose trading for him to be a fit for their team and not so they can buy him out and money? Even then, you’d be naive as hell if you think a team wouldnt take on Westbrook if he was bought out and they could get him on a minimum type contract.
mvp_status
Superstar
I'd prefer not to do the trade at all at this rate, but I'm really not understanding this need to hold onto Grimes. He's a bench player at most if Mitchell comes to NY
Youhadasparkwhenustarted
Superstar
That's ugly. If they're getting 6 picks I don't see the need to include 2 fukking swaps. Just play hardball, if this is gonna be the going rate for a star now then nobody will be able to afford to trade for one. The price has to come down at some point.
Youhadasparkwhenustarted
Superstar
I'm talking about basketball like I'm talking about the housing market, fukk 
Ironman
#Knickstape
Leon can simply walk away and not let the media bully them. Start the season as is and the focus should be getting Randle out of here.
Peter Popoff
Baba Yega in black uptowns
He's better than RJ at the 3, plays really good defense and on a cheaper contract.
Brunson
Mitchell
Grimes
Toppin
Mitchell or Sims
Would be an over .500 team pretty easily plus you got 3 and a half really good shooters and 2 really good shot blockers/rebounders/alley oop dunkers. It would actually be a really fun team to watch @ISO.
That’s my entire point.
He’s another piece in another trade.
Knicks are crazy though..
How the hell do they think they can getaway with a GM that NEVER talks to the media IN NEW YORK fukkIN CITY
They held a press conference introducing Jalen Brunson with no media allowed
The media is WAITING to crush them how long do they think they can do this?
How the hell do they think they can getaway with a GM that NEVER talks to the media IN NEW YORK fukkIN CITY
They held a press conference introducing Jalen Brunson with no media allowed
The media is WAITING to crush them how long do they think they can do this?
