My preference would be to not make that deal. If it happens, so be it, I will come around on it when the games start. But I think we’d be getting an aging player who is likely to be what he was in his other 4 Clips seasons or worse, and then that contract becomes an albatross.

Give me Iron Man Bridges any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Give me PG13 as a cap-killing, oft-injured, end-of-prime faux-superstar on a $50M flyer with a bloated extension looming and I’d be mortified. 2021 will be 4 playoffs ago.

I get that most of that, too. But 33 year old PG13 wasn’t oft-injured, and played extremely well.

It’s about the price, though. Give me PG13 at DDVs salary, or even Brunson’s, and I’d be thrilled. Give me PG13 as a cap-killing, oft-injured, end-of-prime faux-superstar on a $50M flyer with a bloated extension looming and I’d be mortified. 2021 will be 4 playoffs ago.

Paul George is 34. Can’t get excited about that

I get that. But as of now George is still a very good two-way player, and in 2021 (not 2017) he averaged 29pts, 10rebs, and 5+assists a game while carrying the Clippers to the WCF after Leonard’s body failed him once again.

He played 2500 minutes this year over 74 games. He has a decent amount if good basketball left in him, I would guess.

we’ve consistently gotten better players in the twenties and in the second round than we have in the lottery. Nothing to brag about of course but Quickly, Deuce, Mitch, Grimes have all played really well for us.

This (above) is the thing. This draft may suck, but Leon already traded for his guy in OG. He’s gonna sign him. No need to trade for PG or Mikal.

Assuming health, the entire fan base is okay with running back the January squad at least until the All Star Break. It’s now time for the Knick brass to hunker down and find the best players available in this draft. If that means a trade to consolidate picks and move up, so be it. It if means finding the next Quickley and Mitchell Robinson, even better.

Also a thousand times this:

Paul George is 34. Can’t get excited about that.

The bigger news was signing the new medical guy. Can’t wait for Thibs to get detailed graphs of when his players are peaking and when they need to sit. And for us to argue about same 😉

Paul George hasn’t had a good playoff run since 2017.

I haven’t followed the nuances of this thread terribly closely, but I am assuming this is said in the satiric voice, yes?