Only Lebron has played relevant past age 38 and Curry ain't Lebron. He might get to 39 or 40 but he will be 43 in 2030. He isn't immortal.
Curry will play the 2028-2029 season at age 40 and 41 (march birthday), not 43.
I mathed wrong and I meant to say 2030. Point stands.
If I was the interviewer: "So does this mean you prefer GMs who look dumb in your own recruiting?"
I get that. I think Lauri is the pivot point though. Even if the asset loss was higher in trading Sexton or Kessler... I'd move them first and keep Lauri if we don't get something REALLY good. What is Podz worth on the open market... 2 firsts maybe... like 1.5 firsts. If I sell Kessler for 1.5 less firsts than I'd get in the Lauri deal because I compromised I still see that as a preferred route because trading Lauri has such a big impact on the direction of the franchise... and both Sexton and Kessler are assets that will depreciate most likely where Lauri has a chance to appreciate.
I wonder if we are using promising young players with still uncertain ceiling as a way to extract every single possible pick we can get? First - find out what player the team you are negotiating with really doesn't want to lose, start pushing for him... (McDaniels with Minny, Barrett/Grimes from NYK, Podz from GSW)... then "settle" for all the picks... ?
Lemme stop you here: I would too. The problem is I don't think Danny will.
Well if you think he won't compromise on those guys I'm gonna say he holds firm on his star.
As well as if it is a "shot" at Ainge I am not sure he has a lot to prove to Ryan... he already knows he's smart. He may be talking in general but who knows. I really don't think Ainge will blink here. So GS has to ask themselves if they think they can do better than Lauri with that trade package or if Podz and Moody+whatever those assets can yield helps them with Curry's fading window.
9/10 not on this board don't know that super swaps exist even though they get traded/created multiple times every year.
What value are you assigning to Podz and Moody here? They can offer like 2.5 firsts or 2.75 firsts. I don't know that there would be a first out there for Moody headed into his final year of his rookie deal.
Can we say that maxing out owning their draft (meaning super swaps) is a great, nearing godfather offer? That’s pretty bananas.
Yeah I'd quibble with Moody and the full 3 firsts part. I'd say its 4.5-5 firsts type value plus the swaps. Take Podz out and its like 3-3.5 1sts plus swaps... its good but the middle ground imo is they keep Moody. If they can get a first for Moody I'd say they should do that with a third team and route that pick our way. A godfather offer is one you HAVE to take. You have no choice because its so good. Without Podz it ain't a godfather offer. Its a solid offer. It doesn't have to be a godfather offer to make sense though.
Its good... but just like a beach house sells for 25M and that is bananas... it still might be able to sell for more... we have the beach house... they want to buy it... we said we didn't want to sell it... they made a fair offer... we want more than fair cuz we really like the beach house.
Lemme play!
