payitforward wrote:
Dont look now, but it was more like ((Gortat + Oubre) OR (Oubre + Rivers)) = 1/2 year rental of Ariza. I have an incredible urge to go take a dump every time I think of it as Gortat + Oubre. Chances are Ariza will walk. So it could end up being Gortat + Oubre + Ariza for NOTHING. I'm sure there is an alternate universe where this is a good thing. We need to send EG back home.
Oh... it was even worse than that -- much worse!
It was the #18 pick in 2014, the #19 pick in 2015, the #45 pick in 2015 & our 2019 R2 pick (@ # 34-36?) in return for 50 games by Ariza at the end of his career (when he is *not nearly* the player he was with us the first time).
Let me put it another way: since we picked Sato in R2 we have had 8 R2 picks. Those are all gone. So are our 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022 R2 picks, plus our 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017 R1 picks.
That's 12 R2 picks & 4 R1 picks (one of them a lottery pick). All those picks are gone.
In the deals to p#ss away those 16 draft picks, we also added Jodie Meeks, Jason Smith, & millions of dollars of cash.
What did we get for all that? Well, we have Sam Dekker. He is a legitimate R1 pick. We have the rights to Aaron White. & we have the rights to Issuf Sanon. Those 2 weren't good picks, but still... lets make it 3 R1 picks & 10 R2 picks.
So, for 3 R1 picks, one a lottery pick, & 10 R2 picks, plus Meeks, Smith & millions of $$ what do we have? We have Ariza for 50 games, & we have the expiring Markieff Morris (a very bad player).
That is some kind of work by an NBA GM... wow!![/quote]
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