Lauri Markkanen Hype & Appreciation Thread

[NUMBERICA]

You don't just give up a top 20 player when you have as many assets as the Jazz do.

They don’t have that many (tradable draft) assets at this point.

I wouldn’t trade Lauri for rubbish but wouldn’t be Gollum about it. It’s quite unlikely he’ll be here for a title run one way or another.

Lauri is a really good player having a great year so far. Given where we are and need to be it makes more sense to parlay that into a trade than to continue to sit on him.

Not fun using this space to have this discussion. Lauri’s awesome.

 

[NUMBERICA]

They don’t have that many (tradable draft) assets at this point.

Just to elaborate:
-we can’t trade swaps directly
-for comparison, we had ~9 1sts from other teams in 2023, we now have ~4
-Lauri’s impact on winning is at this stage very possibly the difference between keeping a *TOP-8* pick or not which is worth calculating into the value, IMO.

We have enough assets for one big trade before we’re back to trading our own picks which would be incredibly irresponsible.