You think Kessler straight up is worth a 50% chance at a top 4 pick?
Pacers interest in Kessler- what do we want?
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You stupid? A pick isn't going to help them win for the next 1-3 years.
If you have the Pacers pick, Carlisle is just gonna clean up in mickey mouse march when there are tanking teams who own their picks. It helps the Jazz and their own tanking situation....but you're not moving Walker Kessler just to eliminate one tank contender. The pick is not bad, but it's not like owning the NOP pick. IND has already won 4 out of their last 6 now that they have some of their guys back.
You're probably looking at an 8-10 lotto position at best. The more I think about it, the less likely it seems. If we don't even care about our own lotto pick, why are we going to trade Kessler for a worse pick?
You're probably looking at an 8-10 lotto position at best. The more I think about it, the less likely it seems. If we don't even care about our own lotto pick, why are we going to trade Kessler for a worse pick?
Seems you’re having a manic episode because I said nothing about that, partially because they’re not trading that pick for Walker, nor are the Jazz “sweetening the pot” to get it.
It’s an insane risk proposition for both teams. It’s just not happening, in part because the Pacers don’t ever **** up.
But to answer your question, I make that trade straight across no question.
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The last one even remotely like that I can remember is when we were forced to give our only franchise #1 overall pick to the Lakers because we took an aging star from them in free agency. Ended up being Magic Johnson with that pick. NBA has been rigged from the beginning. That was just about the only time the league ever did that too.
jom2003
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Not if they win the #1 pick. #1 pick usually gets to help his teams win from year one in most cases. Sometimes even the top 3 contribute positively to winning in a strong draft class. And whoever they draft, a rookie contract holds much more value to a team than Walker who's about to add 20+mil to their salary.
Jazz aren't doing this deal now. Wait til the deadline when only 26 games remain. We will see where the Pacers are then and what their schedule looks like.
Schrödinger's Gerbil
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Swell. So let me get this straight: any time the Jazz have a good player, all the pundits and blog boys immediately assume we’re dying to trade him for even more “pieces” so we can drag out a rebuild forever. Why actually try to win when you can keep flipping real talent for hypothetical upside, right? At this rate, how long before the same pundits and blog boys start banging the drum to trade Keyonte George?
Max Porter
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If we get rid of Kessler we get rid of 90% of our defense. Who else in our starting 5 can defend? Unless the Pacers give us their pick this year theres no way.
The range of responses from the same posters amounting to the pacers will never trade the pick because it's too valuable and the Jazz can't add anything to the deal because that would be going up too much is wild.
There is a deal there depending on both sides risk tolerance.
I promise the Pacers don't believe there is a world where they can get Walker without giving up the pick, so them having interest means they have at least thought of deals regarding the pick.
There is a deal there depending on both sides risk tolerance.
I promise the Pacers don't believe there is a world where they can get Walker without giving up the pick, so them having interest means they have at least thought of deals regarding the pick.
We will win 165 - 157 and usher in the next glory age of professional basketball. It will be awesome.
This is a team that got a franchise player for a guy they’d been shopping for several years. I guarantee they think they could get a player from a team that refused to even negotiate an extension without trading a potential #1 pick.