younggunsmn wrote:Jedzz wrote:I've already read a few Warriors fans trying to combine the Iggy move in to massage the idea of how much they "actually" paid for Dlo while listening to them defend the Warriors when I claimed they are just deviously good at working every angle and loophole of this system and more or less treating other teams as farm systems and a wall to bounce a ball off of to get the ball to come back. Brooklyn needed the space for Durant+ signings, Warriors needed to maintain capload and paid a 2nd round pick for it. Warriors paying the Iggy cost was just a dead process cost that was forced by the Klay injury season and how the Warriors choose to operate in cap insanity land. It doesn't have any bearing on Dlo's cost/value to attain or what he can/should have been traded for.
There is no getting around it. The Warriors very competently traded a 2025 2nd round pick for the rights to have Dlo run their tank, (and maintain their capload as I've been getting taught about today), while Klay was out. And they did so with a "fake" appearance of trading a FRP that appeases others watching it all happen. There was a very real fit problem with Dlo/Steph and no, I don't think there was ever any chance of that FRP conveying. That's exactly why it wasn't just a Lotto protected pick, it was stretched out to 1-20 protected for a reason. They knew there was a risk had Steph played that they would outplay the lotto range. But that's it.
The Warriors could not have acquired D-Lo without moving Iguodala's salary, because of CBA rules about sign and trades and the hard cap. There was no path to D-Lo for them without dumping Igoudala. It was not possible. The pick to the Nets was demanded by Durant because he got pissy about signing off on a sign and trade and thought the Nets should get something out of it.
No one is questioning that. But it doesn't become part of Dlo's cost or value that can be compared to other players cost/value or other teams trading costs/value. The only thing that the Iggy transaction is then is a sunk cost of doing business in order to carry on the way the Warriors choose to handle their basketball business. It's not a league wide choice to handle their business in the way they do, and it's not required of them or any team. So the choice to handle the Iggy situation is nothing but an operating cost(forced by Durant leaving), not something applied to the value/cost of Dlo.
