esqtvd wrote:You have to give up something to get something.
But what we did was give up everything to get nothing. PG was and is a career loser who wasn't even worth half of that trade on the day it was made, let alone now.
The trade's defenders have always coped by pretending the trade was for Kawhi too, but even if we accept that logic, Kawhi hasn't actually done anything in a Clipper uniform to justify it either.
NOBODY knows what's going to happen 6 years down the road.
This goes both ways and is ultimately why you should never gut your whole future just to trade for one player.
And Ballmer thought he could spend his way out of any 213 complications until his fellow owners AMBUSHED him with the new CBA.
And he was already foolish for thinking that way even before the new CBA. Just look at how Mark Cuban wasted most of Dirk's career trying to do the exact same thing. Spend, spend, spend, pile on "big names" regardless of fit, age, or how good they actually were, and then he couldn't understand why they'd always flame out in the playoffs. The one year they actually won with Dirk is when Cuban finally stopped trying to buy a title and just built a real team around him that made sense. He then went back to the old star-chasing and wasted the rest of Dirk's career. Same thing with Daryl Morey - his strategy of chasing instant gratification with big names has led to his teams never winning anything ever. I don't give Ballmer a free pass on being "ambushed" by the new CBA when his original plan wasn't going to work anyway.