DJ_3_Ball wrote:kan_t wrote:DJ_3_Ball wrote:Curious to get some Nets fans reactions to this trade proposal:
BKN Receives: Jaden Hardy, Josh Green, DAL 10th Overall 2023 pick, DAL 2027 1st Round Pick Unprotected, DAL 2030 2nd Round Pick, THJ (2 years left at $17.8 M & $16.1 M), Bertans $17 M Expiring next season, Bullock $10.5 M Expiring next season
DAL Receives: Mikal Bridges, Ben Simmons, DFS, Claxton
Follow up thought. If Dallas trades Kyrie to the Lakers in a sign & trade for DLo + a 2029 Lakers 1st round pick unprotected, and then DAL was able to offer that '29 LAL 1st round pick Unprotected in place of the DAL 2027 1st Round Pick Unprotected. Would that make the deal more intriguing to you?
The Nets are not trying to tank.
The Nets are in a tough spot. Mikal Bridges is a top 15 player in this league and about to turn 27 yrs old. However, he's in that 10 to 15 range, and on his own, Mikal is not good enough to take a team to a title. You'd have to add more. Extending Nic Claxton and Cameron Johnsons are not enough.
Due to the Harden trade, the Nets have lost 2 1st round picks to HOU over the next 4 drafts. The Nets could trade for a player like Dame Lillard and go into win now mode. I think it makes more sense to trade Mikal for young promising players + as much draft capital as they can amass i.e. go the OKC route. Trade Joe Harris at next year's trade deadline. Clear out trash like Ben Simmons without having to attach a 1st round pick. Get in on every young FA you can over the next several off seasons. Be one of the few teams with a ton of cap space. Players like Markelle Fultz are enticing. I'd rather go that direction if I were the Nets, but maybe they prefer win now mode.
This is you major mistake and rest is just chain reaction to what you'd assume.
• In order to understand why, you need to hear what Owner/GM say. At no point they indicated or gave us hint they going to rebuild traditional way through the draft. Opposite will be true.
• After extension and in his end of the season presser, Marks said that he has blank check and few years to work with. Most here with cap knowledge will tell that Marks had some type of retool plan been being planned couple years ago. The way he structured contracts indicated that much.
So as you mentioned, we don't have our own picks which makes tanking useless and harmful to what ownership tried to establish. We in a biggest market with the team that monopolized it for the better half of the century. So building new and young fan base is a must. How they doing it is why we have civil war going on here. But that another topic.
All and all what our GM and beats say is that Bridges, CamJ and Nic is pretty much our future. Rest of the players like DFS already said they understand business aspects and know this off-season or next could be their last in black and white. I did come to your board with a trade question about that 10th pick. I really hope Marks will make a move and aquire it even if we have to lose DFS, Royce, Din, CamT and Joe. Most of us here say they redundant here anyway. Some like this player more few others the other one, but will be happy to move them if right situation will come along. Taylor Hendricks is that shiny toy, keep majority of the fan base exited and happy for some time while we is star chase process again
