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Grade the Trade: Mitchell to Cavs

How would you grade the trade for us?

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It’s a solid return. Sexton putting up Don like numbers would be hilarious. I think one of the picks has to pop or Ochai has to be really good to get an A.

I would have liked to extort the Knicks for more and it would have been fun to root against them.
 
I think it's a B. Not as big on the players we got in return as other people are(they help us lose games so I guess thats something). Those picks could be nice down the line, you never know how teams perform and injuries happen, players leave
 
B+. We got good value coming back and I think it’s a good trade for CLE as well to go all-in. We tie up a bit more salary next year, but I don’t think we are on the hunt for prime FA’s anyway.

Getting an additional pick would have been an A, but that wasn’t going to happen since CLE couldn’t.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Feels like when I’m a little disappointed but cool with a final grade. B+ it is.

It’s gonna be a dark 2-3 years.
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I will have to revise this later. I have to admit I have tunnel vision on the draft assets but I really like all the players too. Agbaji could be a real steal, Markkanen fills an important role on any serious team, and Sexton could POPPPPPP.
 
I give it a B+. But this trade changed some things for me in a good way. There hasn’t been a time I’ve been less interested or more apathetic about this franchise in the past 25 years as I have been the past two months since we traded Gobert. The idea of having Donovan still on the team after moving Rudy felt dirty. Literally last night I was thinking about how disinterested I was and if this would be a convenient time, with everything else going on in life that I can focus on, to just check out. Finally ripping the bandaid off has washed away a lot of that. Not all of it, but more than half.

I also see us being somewhat competitive next year, too. Not necessarily playoffs but not tank front runners. We’d need some lottery luck. But even finishing 10th worst gives you 20% chance at top 4 with the new odds.
 
Also, my concerns about going all in on just picks is that you need an actual team structure to build off of. I feel like we’ve got that now and may start competing much sooner, which can be good and bad.
 
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