Captain_Caveman wrote:Andrew McCeltic wrote:Captain_Caveman wrote:
I'd have preferred that it happen over the summer to have more time to build chemistry, and would need to see the actual trade, but it's pretty simple for me. Even now, Kevin Durant is as good as any player to ever put on a Celtics uniform. Maybe you only get that for a year and a half, but maybe you also only get Jaylen for a year and a half.
As a basketball player, Jaylen does not deserve to even be mentioned in the same paragraph as KD.
"Maybe you only get Jaylen for a year and a half" is a horrible rationalization for shortening your timeline.
KD would be worth it if he didn't have a history of major injury, if he were a year or two younger, and if he'd ever won anything without jumping on the back of a championship team. GS won before him, he took over for Harrison Barnes like a baby, he never won in Oklahoma City and he hasn't won anything in Brooklyn. I'd rather trade Jaylen for Lebron.
Only reason I even started an account here is people making posts like this about KG in 2007.
And my rationalization here is based on KD being a vastly superior basketball player. Jaylen being an unrestricted free agent in 2024 is still part of the equation, like it or not.
Durant is superior, today, I still don't do the trade. He's not superior enough.
2007 was different in fifteen ways - Pierce was almost 30 and unhappy. Jefferson was RAW, 22 years old. We lost out on Durant. We weren't going to tank *again* by trading Paul to rebuild. Turned a middling lotto pick into Ray. KG was 31, not 34. No major injury history, iron man, never missed more than six games a season until then. Polar opposite of KD''s personality.
