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MJ says at your hiring: You have 5 years Mitch. Either we are playing for a conference finals or you are fired.

What is your 5 year plan?

Super risky, but i would tank for 2 seasons (this and next) while shedding bad contracts (Marvin, Moz, Nic etc.). Go into 2021 with a few top prospects and a ton of cap space. Basically, an accelerated philly rebuild.

I dont think we need an all out full rebuild.We have talent, just needs to be better utilized and developed

Mitch went to UNC. He could trade Kemba for 4 second-rounders, sell them off for a Vegas trip, put Ed Cota at PG and still be off the hot seat.

JDR720 wrote:Super risky, but i would tank for 2 seasons (this and next) while shedding bad contracts (Marvin, Moz, Nic etc.). Go into 2021 with a few top prospects and a ton of cap space. Basically, an accelerated philly rebuild.

Pretty solid plan. Tanking for 2 seasons hopefully nets 1 superstar and 1 starter. Next 5 years, it'd appear Celtics and 76ers will be the top dogs. So, ideally, we'd want to draft players that can play some defense against some great scorers. My plan of action

Trade Kemba get some type of youth with upside and draft picks.

Look to deal any vet with value. Imo Marv, Zeller. Grab some more youth. Take on some horrific contracts like Noah and Deng if it returns future value.

Explain to the fans that winning in the NBA takes a plan. You can't just go head first in every season without eyeing the future. This season will be a setback but the hope of actually competing for trophies will become a lot more realistic.

Only guys I'm bringing from the roster now are Batum, MKG, Monk, Lamb, Willy, and Frank. These guys due to combination of no value or more value as potential upside with which we are looking for.

JDR720 wrote:Super risky, but i would tank for 2 seasons (this and next) while shedding bad contracts (Marvin, Moz, Nic etc.). Go into 2021 with a few top prospects and a ton of cap space. Basically, an accelerated philly rebuild.

I actually thought about this today, and this is exactly what I want the Hornets to do. It won't happen though. I don't think we will make any noise in the conference until we somehow luck into a superstar with one of our future 11# or 12# picks

In this scenario, you're likely getting fired. You could take the 'zero fcks given about the future route' and go all in on stars that are on the move. Keep Kemba and trade everything and all of our future draft picks for Kawhi and Marc Gasol.

Kemba-Kawhi-Gasol and whatever's leftover might get you to the ECF in a LeBron-less East if everything goes right. Then all of our players would leave next season and we'll be Brooklyn part two and it will be awful.

Step 1: Create a Black Ops Division, call them the KGBee
Step 2: Give Kemba the max, let him stat pad all year at the expense of wins and create All Star buzz.
Step 3: Meanwhile, KGBee has 2 chief functions: 1) Gather intel to be used to blackmail Adam Silver into rigging the lottery for us and 2) Run Psy Ops on biggest competitors (Boston, wherever LeBron is, etc) to be used later in postseason.
Step 4: Draft Zion Williamson or whoever the can't miss prospect is after tanking.
Step 5: Attract FA superstar to play with "superstar" Kemba Walker and "superstar in making" Zion Williams.