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Detroit trading Tobias Harris was an epic mistake

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Re: Detroit trading Tobias Harris was an epic mistake 

Post#21 » by 440BB » Tue Jul 9, 2019 9:22 pm

If we were paying Harris $180M for the next five years, I'd be mad as hell. A trade was the only way we'd get value before he was gone.
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Re: Detroit trading Tobias Harris was an epic mistake 

Post#22 » by kellmellus50 » Tue Jul 9, 2019 9:44 pm

440BB wrote:If we were paying Harris $180M for the next five years, I'd be mad as hell. A trade was the only way we'd get value before he was gone.


Thats the reason i am happy we traded him otherwise we would have lost him for nothing.
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Re: Detroit trading Tobias Harris was an epic mistake 

Post#23 » by The_Irony » Wed Jul 10, 2019 1:35 am

this didn't age well
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Re: Detroit trading Tobias Harris was an epic mistake 

Post#24 » by sc8581 » Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:31 am

He's insanely overpaid, ideally he's a 6th man on a contending team with his construction cone defense.
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Re: Detroit trading Tobias Harris was an epic mistake 

Post#25 » by A_dub06 » Wed Jul 10, 2019 12:16 pm

I don’t think trading Tobias Harris was a joke, trading our 1st round pick that became SGA certainly is though and I would much rather have kept our flexibility and him on our roster than getting Griffin.
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Re: Detroit trading Tobias Harris was an epic mistake 

Post#26 » by Snakebites » Wed Jul 10, 2019 4:32 pm

I will say that my mind was absolutely blown by the contract Tobias got.

SVG would have given him that contract. I'm not sure Ed would though.
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Re: Detroit trading Tobias Harris was an epic mistake 

Post#27 » by DetroitDon15 » Thu Jul 11, 2019 1:00 am

Snakebites wrote:The Clips flipped him into a pretty good package at the deadline.

Coulda been us...


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Re: Detroit trading Tobias Harris was an epic mistake 

Post#28 » by thesack12 » Thu Jul 11, 2019 1:02 pm

Tobias Harris currently has the 4th biggest overall contract value in the NBA

1) Russell Westbrook
2) Stephen Curry
3) Klay Thompson
4) Tobias Harris

Tobias' average yearly salary is 9th in the NBA

1) John Wall
2) James Harden
3) Russell Westbrook
4) Kevin Durant
5) Stephen Curry
6) Chris Paul
7) Lebron James
8) Klay Thompson
9) Tobias Harris
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Re: Detroit trading Tobias Harris was an epic mistake 

Post#29 » by DBC10 » Thu Jul 11, 2019 1:40 pm

John Wall's contract is insane. Grundfeld must've had some good whiskey before he came up with that number.

But Westbrook's contract really has to be the 2nd worst on that list in relative value proposition.

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