I'm just curious. Am I the only person on this board that actually likes Beasley as a player? I see a lot of talent and someone who is only 25 years old and has been a 20+ points a game scorer already. He had an off the court incident that seems to have people forgetting how talented he actually is.Lets say the value of RJ Barrett right now is about 2 1st round picks. What would you rather do - rehab/develop his value into something similar to what Donovan's value is now or try to rehab/develop the value of someone like... Beasley? IMO there is much more value and potential in developing Barrett than there is in trying to rehab some random fringe rotational player into legit rotational player(aka one 1st round pick). IMO the return on someone like Barrett would be stronger than the random rehabilitation projects teams usually take on into 20-25M salary cap space.
I also think you are overestimating the impact of single players on really bad teams. Even players as good as SGA couldn't make OKC a competitive team. IMO if we trade most of our good vets for picks we would be bad enough for it to not affect our lottery odds a ton. And the little it will affect it will be worth it in case you actually hit big on one of those players.