Still tho, that’s the point. Denver managed to deal a player they didn’t want so much they turned their promising SG into a PG to play ahead of him and got back Devin Harris, who’s for sure a better player at this stage and the 2nd rounder.

This deal from the Denver perspective is something we pretty much haven’t seen from the Knicks in so long, a clear win on a deal.

What bothers me about the Mudiay deal is that we gave up something for a player Denver didn’t want. It’s like a much, much less harmful version of the Bargs deal. When a team wants to get rid of a guy you shouldn’t be paying them for him.

Right, which is why the original deal seemed like it made sense at the time. “Oh, okay, so Denver just want to get rid of him. Fair enough. Let’s give him a shot.” But then it turned out that they actually gave a real asset up for him!

I didn’t like that the Nets gave up a late first in the Russell deal. That didn’t seem to make sense for the purposes of the deal. That that pick then turned out to be Kuzma just made it all the more painful, but I didn’t like the first being included even before it was used to take a very good young player. Before they reported the first rounder being involved, I thought it was a great deal for the Nets, but then the first pick news came out and I wasn’t a fan. There’s no way that the Nets should have had to give up a first in that deal.

Brooklyn has had no choice for 3 years, they either find someone out of the complete scrap heap or they have literally no one to develop, and they still made better deals than the Mudiay one in terms of value. They gambled on Okafor, he’s still terrible, but they got a 2nd rounder. They gambled on Russell and he’s still bad, but they only lost Lopez who was gone anyway and useless cap space for them with Moz.

Now the Knicks gave away a second plus McDermott, who falls in the Lopez category of useless player since he wouldn’t be staying anyway, to bring a guy who showed zero signs he should even be in the league for 3 full years playing big rotation minutes, who also happens to play the very same position as two of the guys we should be developing in the first place.

How is that not stupid? It is probably going to be inconsequential, yes, but inconsequential moves can be stupid too. If I drink and drive and nothing happens to me at all, does that mean the decision making wasn’t stupid because it ended up being inconsequential?

Sure second rounders don’t amount to much but I don’t want us to just give them away.

Oh sure, I do agree that it probably won’t matter in the end, just like the second they traded to clear room for Travis Wear probably won’t come back to haunt them. But they’re still dumb moves. Or like how Ron Baker’s contract probably won’t matter much, but it’s still a dumb move (and so on and so forth).