Zeno wrote:Indeed wrote:Zeno wrote:If it is just a late first as return, you wait to see if teams with a more urgent window will experience an injury. Where is Miami if Dragic is out for the season or the Jazz if they lose Conley? I know those teams don’t have much, just throwing out examples. If the return is just meh, wait on the market to shake a few more suitors out.
The Minnesota 1st is a top 3 protected pick, right now they are a bottom 3 team.
Yeah, sorry. I was kind of skipping steps in my logic here. To me the Wiggins contract is negative value so it is like you are selling the capspace for that pick in addition to Lowry which I get. But I wonder if it is not better to get Lowry’s true value and maintain the capspace to make an additional improvement or acquire another asset.
I’m not saying that I wouldn’t do the Lowry for Wiggins plus Minny pick but more could shake out from a desperate team as the season wears on. There is some risk that Minnesota somehow drop to 4 and somehow actually gets better the following year and it turns into not much of anything but a mid 1st 2022 and a bad contract.
If we just want to trade Lowry to a bad team, we can probably do that to maximize the return. It is just not making your organization looks good, as you failed to live up to the promise.
I feel Golden States still has a chance to compete this year, and the pick would be better than any other contender regardless it becomes out side of top 10. Meanwhile, it is difficult to find a team to match Lowry's contract with other non-core contract. Furthermore, Wiggins contract isn't as bad with 2 years remaining after this year, and he is a serviceable player, therefore, from an asset management perspective, he can be traded in the future, particularly as an expiring after next year.
