Good explanation. They know that they will have the best odds at Flagg now basically no matter what so might as well see what their guys can do.
Either way it is a silly post. Once you get to a certain point of maturity, you understand that 1. regret does nothing but continuous mental harm and 2. there are two types of regret. Where you had a choice and made the “wrong” one (you had actual control and data points) and the other where you made a choice and later on and you found out the other was not necessarily the right choice but led to something after the fact that was impossible to predict at the time of the original choice. That’s just life and you are a weak person if you ever regret that for more than a moment. So, I don’t think Hardy is a mentally weak person and no he did not regret that for more than a day.
The trades really helped them get winning players (even though they were "selling"). Plus their rookies have really come into their own lately. And, they don't seem to be purposely sitting guys much these days.
A season or two from Philly and OKC probably rival what we've don this year. (Remember when the Thunder basically shut down Shai two years in a row after midseason or so?)
The ‘26 pick deserves its own thread. But it is worth mentioning that it has double swap rights attached to it that OKC doesn’t have. There is a non-zero chance that one of those swaps ends up as a top-4 lottery pick and we will not be able to get the swap because OUR pick is first owed to OKC if it’s 9+ and would not be eligible to swap.
I could see Kawhi Leonard and Paul George
