I love KD as a player! He's a fantastic talent. And it'd be cool to see him retire here too. But the bigger picture here is that him statingbdoes absolutely nothing to help us right this mess!
And people deluding themselves into saying give it two more years must love the experience we've gone through this past 2-3 years because nothing will change for the better with this roster as constructed and All 3 players eating up the majority of our cap flexibility and having no assets or youth and athleticism to create a real team around KD and Booker anyways.
KD will continue to age and at some point very soon, perhaps even next season completely fall off a clif and Booker will be making 70+ million to play faux " Chris Paul" averaging solid assists while having 10 point and 13 or maybe if lucky 20 points games occasionally.
And then will never again be a truly elite SG in his prime years because he'll keep opting to pass/ defer to lesser talents rather than play into his natural gifts aw an elite scoring guard because Steve "effing" Kerr convinced him to be something he's not! Brilliant plan to take out an elite oppositional threat in the western conference by the way!
Worst of all is that over these next 2-3 years, we'll continue hemorrhaging cost controlled lottery level talent! And have no legitimate incoming young athletic talent, so when KD does finally retire or is predominantly irrelevant making supermax money, we'll still he the most expensive lottery team in NBA history, a 2nd apron rebuilding team with no real assets for the future.
And on top of everything else, thusly forcing ourselves into an even longer, much more painful decade + long full rebuild because we futilely chose to hold onto our only remaining assets left ( KD and Booker) while achieving nothing really and now they ( KD and Booker) only having minimal- neutral teade value at best for their age/ contract!
It's not fun or good, butvwe need to move both while they still carry mostly optimal value, otherwise things will get much worse and forva much longer time needed to fix things and become relevant again!
# Not close to winning!!
