The Rockets have been offering a first round pick to get rid of Brandon Knight’s salary. What I don’t understand about that is what is the benefit to that for them? Just saving money or what?

Mark Jackson is a slimy mofo. Using his ABC gig to pimp the Lakers’ shitty trade offer for Anthony Davis when he clearly wants to get the Lakers coaching gig is ridiculous. Luke Walton is not a bad young coach but he is way out of his depth dealing with Lebron and friends. It would probably be for the best if Walton just went somewhere else.

The issue with Zion is that the NBA has changed so dramatically from Barkley and LJ’s day. Remember, if you were to look at what NBA player from the 1990s that Lebron James looked the most like, physically, it would be Karl Malone (Malone was 6’9″ and 250 pounds while Lebron ia 6’8″ and 250 pounds) and yet Lebron plays much more of a guard-like game while using his forward-like abilities to make himself even better than normal (when he unleashed the post-up game, he became a sort of transcendent player).

So similarly, if Charles Barkley and Larry Johnson were coming into the NBA today, their games would be much different. Pre-injury LJ was a good player, but think about post-injury LJ. He remained a very good (but not great) player, but in a completely different type of fashion, using the outside game a lot more. Now, imagine pairing early-LJ (with the explosive, above the rim game) and late LJ (with the three-point range that people sometimes forget he started with in his last season with Charlotte, right after the injury) into a single LJ. That would be a great player.

Therefore, when comparing him to guys like Barkley and LJ, it’s really just the similar body types. I guess, then, I’d go with Barkley. Barkley in today’s NBA would be amazing.

I haven’t seen Zion play or looked at his stats, but if all the KB hype here around Zion is just to land the next Larry Johnson, that would be a pretty terrible outcome.

100% young Barkley.

Cam Reddish, here we come!

Personally, I’d trade up to get Zion. He seems a once-in-a-generation type talent.