Washington and Golden State are close on a trade sending Chris Paul to the Warriors for Jordan Poole, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium

[Regular_P]

@Regular_P . He bout to be traded more than that bum Nik Staukkkis

Wiz going to the playoffs now.

 

[Rigby.]

And if he continues to play like he did last year? A 4 year 130 million dollar anchor around your neck

What does that even mean bruh …they just spent 35 million a year on Jordan Poole ..why do you think they’ll spend/leverage that $65 million wisely?

It’s a low stakes gamble tbh. They’re probably looking at mainly developmental pieces this draft and I don’t believe they have a pick next year. So it’s 2 years that don’t matter either way. Either he’s positively flippable by 2025, you sell for 50 cents on the dollar, you waive him, or you let him waste another year and then flip him as an expiring

There’s just not many real cons to this move for Washington tbh

 

[Heavy_Handz]

No, he has 4. His new deal kicks in this upcoming season I believe. So October will be the first year of a four year contract

My bad. Even still. Wiz will have 70 mill in cap space next year.

 

[CarltonJunior]

Warriors playing keep away from the Lakers

I imagine Washington would have waived him and Lakers would have signed him for pennies

This is actually a decent point and might have changed the way that I look at this trade entirely actually.

 

[Morethan1]

They’ll trade his expiring at the deadline and save a bunch of tax money

Keep him

Next season he's Non Guarantee

Well after this upcoming season

 

[reserved_one]

CP3 on the Warriors? WTF? Never in my wildest dreams I thought I would see this happen but here we are.

 

[Dwight Howard]

Warriors playing keep away from the Lakers

I imagine Washington would have waived him and Lakers would have signed him for pennies

I doubt the warriors or any other franchise is concerned with the Lakers getting cp3. Atleast not to the extend they'd give up assets to avoid it happening.

 

[dh86]

Why? He's completely tearing it down to start from scratch.

How does he expect to build without draft capital? The best assets are gone already. I dont understand why the Warriors didnt have to give up firsts with Poole. Warriors werent going to be able to sustain their roster with the new CBA, and he was a corpse in the playoffs. Worst contract in the league, Wizards should have held out.

 

[firemanBk]

Washington building around Jordan fukking Poole

That motherfukker about to average 30 ppg on 38/25/90 splits next year

 

[VegetasHairline]

The Coli: These treadmill teams gotta blow it up and tank!

*treadmill team blows it up and tanks*

Also The Coli: NO NOT LIKE THAT!

 

[King Poetic]

Poole got his own squad

Now Washington better get Kuz signed

 

[VegetasHairline]

How does he expect to build without draft capital? The best assets are gone already. I dont understand why the Warriors didnt have to give up firsts with Poole. Warriors werent going to be able to sustain their roster with the new CBA, and he was a corpse in the playoffs. Worst contract in the league, Wizards should have held out.

Because these are the only moves they're gonna make. They don't have time to make more moves and acquire picks. It's all about what they do now.

 

[Surreal]

Noooo!!!!!!!!

I don’t want that nikka nowhere close of winning anything

He won't be

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

I doubt the warriors or any other franchise is concerned with the Lakers getting cp3. Atleast not to the extend they'd give up assets to avoid it happening.

Its addition by subtraction getting rid of Poole..potentially weakens the team that knocked you out of the playoffs recently and Paul expires soon anyway

 

[Left.A1]

This is actually a good get for the Wiz because it now sets the nucleus of what the team will be for this rebuild. 1 and 2 are set so now they'll be drafting wings and bigs around the tyus poole backcourt.

You think a “nucleus” built around Jordan Poole and his 130 million dollar contract is a “good thing” Did you not watch him at all last year?

If Poole takes his role as the man in WSH seriously and shows progression and work ethic then the team could feasibly be built around him

What makes you believe this will happen?

if he regresses or you don't like what you see behind closed doors a team will definitely give up something nice for him and he'll likely bring back more than Beal or KP did, so I get it.

What is this based on? His own team that drafted him just salary dumped him for a 38 year old …if he continues to regress why the hell would another team “give up something nice” for that?

Before this trade though, Wizards were definitely getting an offseason grade of D or F from me.

Yeah I guess the name involved is getting people excited.. it Poole has a lot to bounce back from to prove worthy of that money or any prospects of him being nothing close to a franchise cornerstone