Dark Faze wrote:TBH I don't know if we'd trade Deni for a first this year. Huge improvement and locked into a contract of terrific value. Currently at .59% TS. Improvement of efficiency like that in a clear tanking season is admirable. His ball handling and attacking development has raised his ceiling even if his ranged shooting doesn't improve much.
I wouldn't be surprised if we're not as active during this years deadline as expected. If you can sign Tyus to 2 years, 30 million (or a bit higher, idk) and move his contract next year instead of this year (same with Kuz really), then you're presumably getting better value (better draft) simply by waiting.
Yeah, we're almost surely not trading Deni. But Shams is right in that Bilal is the only guy who is truly untradeable.
The issue is time horizon. As the worst team in the league with the worst talent base, we have the longest time horizon and value distant future assets more than anyone else does, and we value current assets less than anyone else does.
Bilal is purely a future asset. Since nobody values the distant future more than us, nobody will give us a future asset more valuable than we value Bilal.
Deni is both a current asset and a future asset. I can at least conceive of teams who would value his immediate impact now more than we do and would therefore give us a future asset that we value more than we value Deni's future. A team like OKC could package a bunch of future 1sts in order to add Deni as a 5th starter/glue guy locked into an ultra-cheap contract for the next 4.5 years.