Sam Presti is a con artist

iLLmatic860 · Post #1 » by **iLLmatic860** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:22 pm

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Getting picks for westbrook for a "unwanted contract " of cp3

Now Westbrook is "an unwanted contract"

And presti pulls off an unprotected after booker contract expires

Lmaooooo

OrangeBlueSkies · Post #2 » by **OrangeBlueSkies** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:26 pm

He’s a genius. He’s going to move Rubio, Oubre for assets.

Kordic27 · Post #3 » by **Kordic27** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:27 pm

The nightmarest of nightmare offseasons for the rockets. Legitimately everything is going awfully wrong.

Braggins · Post #4 » by **Braggins** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:27 pm

Wow lol.

Masaiah · Post #5 » by **Masaiah** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:28 pm

That pick will be redeemed before its unprotected. Phoenix will win too many games next season to finish bottom 12 IMO.

ThatBoyNick · Post #6 » by **ThatBoyNick** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:29 pm

He wasn’t a con artist when he sold Harden for Kmart and Adams, but this is solid revenge.

LoveMyRaps · Post #7 » by **LoveMyRaps** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:29 pm

I don't know... Schroeder for Green and the 28th overall pick from a super weak draft was not a good deal IMO.
But Presti is still one of the best executives in the league without a doubt. Top 3 in my books.

iLLmatic860 · Post #8 » by **iLLmatic860** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:33 pm

Masaiah wrote:That pick will be redeemed before its unprotected. Phoenix will win too many games next season to finish bottom 12 IMO.

I read tweet wrong. Good point

Still a good trade for okc

lonzo_pelota · Post #9 » by **lonzo_pelota** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:35 pm

Read on Twitter

Post #10 » by **zimpy27** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:36 pm

Presti is a genius

WestbrookGOATed · Post #11 » by **WestbrookGOATed** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:37 pm

OrangeBlueSkies wrote:He’s a genius. He’s going to move Rubio, Oubre for assets.

Oubre will stay. The Thunder have 17 1st rounders over the next 6 years. They have plenty of assets. Especially after they flip Rubio.

azcatz11 · Post #12 » by **azcatz11** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:39 pm

I think it's a good trade for the Suns. With the arena renovation, they need to be competitive to drum up excitement ASAP. I think that factored into this as well

Forbes · Post #13 » by **Forbes** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:39 pm

He def should give classes in Manipulation. So many GM would’ve been stuck with Westbrook and CP3 contracts with no return.

BadWolf · Post #14 » by **BadWolf** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:46 pm

Oubre, Rubio for DDV, Bledsoe,24?

Dupp · Post #15 » by **Dupp** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:46 pm

99% of realgm thought paul was a horrible contract because he had one down year. Not like people here knew any better.

HotelVitale · Post #16 » by **HotelVitale** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:47 pm

Have to give my standard take on not hyping up GMs too much: I think Presti is one of the better and more principled GMs around, but none of this ish is wizardry. The Rockets called him last year and he correctly gauged their interest in dumping a well paid and pretty broken CP3 for Westbrook, then he got lucky that CP3 was both healthy and terrific this year and correctly gauged PHX's interest in him when they called. He had assets other teams wanted and he held out for the best return. Not rocket science, just some basic moves that he played well and that worked for him thanks to some good fortune.

DBurks2818 · Post #17 » by **DBurks2818** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:47 pm

The Danny Ainge of the western conference.

Warriorfan · Post #18 » by **Warriorfan** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:48 pm

Eventually he needss to put ut all together for a championship. OKC needs to manipulate the draft to gets its superstar to get Presti his championship

The_Hater · Post #19 » by **The_Hater** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:51 pm

ThatBoyNick wrote:He wasn’t a con artist when he sold Harden for Kmart and Adams, but this is solid revenge.

Looking at his transaction and draft history, this was the only real blemish in 14 years. And ownership forced him to do something when they refused to pay Harden what he wanted.

An incredible run of competency in a job full of incompetent people really.

Forte IV · Post #20 » by **Forte IV** » Mon Nov 16, 2020 6:53 pm

I think we are beginning to vastly overrate the man. Outside of the 3 MVPs he's basically done nothing. He's drafted several athletic wings who can't shoot, and missed on several picks. People act like he's going to draft some superstar level player with all the picks he has. Stop getting infatuating with the first round pick.

A 1st round pick is like a fancy sports car. The idea is great but once you drive it off the lot (draft a player) it loses ridiculous value.