I don't think it's too head-scratching. He's an important piece in basically any trade Phoenix could make for KD. More basic than that is that everyone knows he doesn't love basketball and he can just vanish, even on a team with CP3 and Monty Williams. Restricted free agency of course is usually a seriously complicating factor as well.
I guess 7 is a big number for someone like you since it's pretty close to 10, which is as high as you can get counting on your fingers.
You mean the front office already saw exactly what Magic's career was and then decided to let him go? Because that would be the equivalent of the Conley trade. We knew exactly what we were getting and we went and got it anyway. Unless you can say the front office saw 10+ years of Magic's career with all results then this isn't comparable at all. Picks are crap shoots, Conley was a fully known quantity, with injury history and everything. Hell from a pick standpoint we also missed out on Giannis. This list can go on and on. From a mortgage the farm to bring in an aging player that didn't fit our needs standpoint, who is on the list besides Conley?
This was a fun team to watch.
Doesn't matter in the least, unless you are saying that if we had kept them we would have fully consulted with the Grizz before using them. That would be stupid. You cannot say what we would have done with them. That is a fully false equivalency. Just like comparing the Magic draft to the Conley trade. Apples and Watermelons comparison (not even as close as an orange would be at least in size and shape).
Oh, because Memphis mismanaged the assets it's okay that we mismanaged the assets. Sound logic there....
Lol. Sorry you put so much time into figuring out what Memphis did with the assets we gave them only to realize the point holds no water.
