ImNotMcDiSwear wrote:bwgood77 wrote:Frank Lee wrote:
A quick answer is Booker.....
Book and Beal arent apples to oranges...but more like Fiji's to McIntosh. Both would have to ask to be traded and the public disclosure of that would not help the value. Beal is also a FA after 20/21 season, where as Book has to wait till 2024. That could come into play next yr if Beal wants to walk. Book? not so much for a couple years. Why are we talking about Beal?Are you implying he should join the Suns ? Dueling Matadors is not something Id like to see.
In a vacuum, Id say Book is worth a prospect, a good pick, and salary fodder. but its not a vacuum. Especially if he disgruntles for a deal. May be a couple teams get in a bidding battle, may be not. Second line of thought would be a deal for another top player... but those deals are few and far between.
Fan bases' tendencies are to over rate these two (Beal/Book) similarly efficient AlloNod chuckers. Its not so much as who you'd get, but more so, who would want them bad enough to give up a tasty enough package to get these sidekicks. Batmen they are not. Furthermore, I doubt either team would get sufficient replacement value to offset the loss. But if it comes down to trade them or lose them for nothing, then who knows. At least with Book, we dont have that leverage threat till 2023-4
Dealing Book is not going to do anything but delay our next playoff appearance, IMO.
That's what I was thinking. And I will preface it by saying I am not suggesting we trade him and I don't think he will ask out. And as I've mentioned, most people talking about trade packages are only doing so when it is mentioned he is going to ask out..not because they think we should put him on the block, outside of 1-2 people maybe.
But yes, a package like Nance got. A nice young prospect and maybe a couple vets and a pick, possibly 2 protected ones (though 2 is probably pushing it). As you mentioned, teams won't gut their core to trade for him..it will be to add to him.
But obviously no reason to think about trading him any time soon with the way Ayton and Bridges are improving...along with Booker himself now that he has a legit PG and can play more off ball.
I actually think that the right team might just gut their core youth group for Booker. It's gotta be a team that either already has a co-star for Book or a team that believes they can leverage Booker's presence to attract one or two major free agents.
While the Bulls and Magic are poor fits for this kind of scenario, the Knicks are not. They've been unable to add a star via any means since Melo departed.
When I say that Booker should get a return like Nance got, I don't mean we're settling for scraps and unknown prospects and hoping that one of them busts out like KJ. I think about a major package closer to what Kerrsed was proposing in terms of value. I think Booker is a superstar, that other teams value him that way, and that the league consensus is that our struggles have to do with everything Phoenix Suns and not Booker himself.
All of this is moot, for at least one more season. Once we blow our load in free agency, Deandre enters year 3 and Oubre is set to enter free agency, if we're not a playoff squad by then, Booker may well conclude that there is no light at the end of this tunnel. But I don't think the FO will start thinking along the lines of a Booker trade until we approach the last two years of his deal unless he requests a trade.
I didn't necessarily mean scraps. KJ was a premier prospect and Tyrone Corbin and Mark West were solid vets but not old..Corbin was 25 and West 28.
Though I don't think a team like the Knicks would even be able to come up with as good as package as that. Those other teams, were primary pieces their new regime who was brought in recently took with high lotto picks for their rebuild, and they likely value them highly. I doubt the Hawks would want to pair Trae and Booker anyway for obvious reasons.
If it was the Knicks, it would have to mainly be for picks. It doesn't make sense for either team to have Robinson as a key piece in the trade and they are probably hoping to build around Barrett, though I guess he could be a possibility. But who knows who else they have 2-3 years from now if Booker asks out like many others think. He would probably be pretty unhappy going to another rebuilding situation though.
