Brand hew draft pick and have a ton of cap space we can rent or just take a player like DRuss, Chris Paul, Westbrook, Tobias, KP, Hartford, etc…and get a 1st rounder to take those contracts.

bet a few teams will see that their NBA title is a pipe dream and get under luxury tax. Just need a GM that can pull it off. Then we go to work with developing young guys with a right development coach.

They keep talking about how much he’s adding to the team with his spacing, rim protection, and improved rebounding and don’t seem to be concerned with his shot yet at all.

Well, that settles it then.

If they had “rented” KP/THJr and Lee’s cap space for 2 #1 picks once the prime FA’s punted a take of 4 #1’s would have been a king’s ransom for KP for the price of one more tankathon year (which we are getting anyway sans the picks)…..

Something this extreme is a lot easier said than done.

Teams aren’t throwing around 1st rounders for expiring deals like candy unless they are desperate to complete another deal. The reason for giving up a 1st rounder for space is that you are also giving up a terrible contract, which in most cases is a multi year bad contract.

Think of it like Hardaway.

We could have moved Hardaway’s multi year bad contract as a stand alone deal, but everyone would have demanded a 1st round pick or maybe even more. So sure, someone could have gotten a 1st rounder, but they also would have been stuck with Hardaway for 2 years instead of being able to use that space productively right away.

GMs make mistakes and some are smarter than others, but you can’t assume you are just going to run around stealing from everyone.

Edit: It’s up

Are you really sure anyone would now be interested in a 154M player whose “good” knee needs PRP at 24 and chucks with below league average efficiency.

I’m sure Dallas is happy.

They keep talking about how much he’s adding to the team with his spacing, rim protection, and improved rebounding and don’t seem to be concerned with his shot yet at all.

The thing is, KP on his deal still has market value. He’s a tantalizing shiny object. Dallas could probably get more for him right now than they gave up. Sort of like Melo’s deal…we still got some value for him deep into that contract. So whether KP is actually worth what you can trade him for is irrelevant. Cuban picked him up on the cheap and we sold relatively low.

Are you really sure anyone would now be interested in a 154M player whose “good” knee needs PRP at 24 and chucks with below league average efficiency.

The actually made a fine deal to trade KP…. the only problem as the idea was to sign real players with the added cap space and once that blew up they pivoted in the wrong direction.

If they had “rented” KP/THJr and Lee’s cap space for 2 #1 picks once the prime FA’s punted a take of 4 #1’s would have been a king’s ransom for KP for the price of one more tankathon year (which we are getting anyway sans the picks)…..

So whether KP is actually worth what you can trade him for is irrelevant. Cuban picked him up on the cheap and we sold relatively low.

100%

People here are projecting their own valuation of KP onto the rest of the league and assuming that the league agrees with them or that they are right and the league is wrong. The reality is the consensus here may be wrong (underestimating him), and even if it’s right, the league may disagree and he can still be traded in a better deal for Dallas.

I think I’m somewhere in the middle.

I’m above the consensus here, but way more worried about injury risk than Cuban and others in the NBA seem to be.