cries in Bruce Brown

During the season, at least. KAT was traded like three weeks before the season officially started or something like that.

Gary Trent forced to take a vet min was telling. Players are either getting the max or stuck with these low paying short term deals. No more midrange deals.

Luckily Kevin Huerter makes less

yall wanted parity so bad. lack of stars moving is a part of parity

Expansion will solve this instantly.

yeah that and GMs handing out bad contracts like candy

Think once some of those contracts cycle through we’ll pull a 180 on the cba. Trade rules lifted considerable constraints for non-tax teams as far as salary matching.

I don’t understand the lack of foresight with some of these teams who intentionally went on spending sprees before the apron rules fully took effect.

About half the league is in the tax with 9 of those teams more than $10 million over. That’s unprecedented. That number is usually just a handful of teams.

Does a generation last 2-3 years?

The benefit I can see is superstars will realize they can’t push their way out and have to play out their contract. 

I legit think that CJ is one of the worst contracts in the league rn lol.

I remember when everyone lost their mind over Robert Covington trade rumors leading up to the 2020 trade deadline lmao. You would’ve thought that he was prime Kawhi

It’s hard to blame them when Bridges went for what? 5 frp?? Unbelievable

I wouldn’t lump in Cam Johnson with most, dude is averaging 20 ppg on 67% TS, he would be pretty big on a good team imo.

Like Brooklyn thinking DFS was worth multiple 1st lmaoooo

I wouldn’t throw Caruso in there with Kuz. Caruso does have a lot of value for contending teams. Add him to the Lakers and they’d be top 3 in the West. He’s a roleplayer, but he’s also a defensive Star. His shot hasn’t been great this season but he can also space the floor, taking his entire career into account. It’s those types of players that unlock a championship window once a team has a great Superstar duo.

Those players, Danny Green, KCP, Shane Battier, Robert Sorry etc are situationally worth FRPs for the right team. Kuzma at his very best can score 20 on a tanking team, and for contenders he’s too expensive for what he could contribute as a generally pretty good offensive player. Winning teams would rather sign Westbrook to a smaller contract to provide that bench spark and scoring punch when the stars need a break.

Kuzma is a generalist, and players like Caruso are specialists. Specialists can significantly raise the ceiling and the floor for elite teams - take a look at Derrick White for Boston, KCP in 23 for Denver, Gary Payton II on the 22 Warriors, hell Tristan fucking Thompson in the Finals vs GSW 2016, Ray Allen and Shane Battier for the Heatles in 2013, Clint Capela for the 2018 Rockets along with PJ Tucker, Bobby Portis for Milwaukee 21, the corpse of Rondo fir the 2020 Lakers in the playoffs, Zubac on the Clippers.

It boils down to a player being among the best in the league in one thing and (most of the time) being pretty good at shooting the ball in order to be the x factor for championship teams. Teams can and have dropped FRPs for these roleplayers and rightfully so. If you’re elite in a desirable skill you’ll be worth it for the right team.

It absolutely depends on the role player and where those picks end up being. Picks in the late 20s aren’t worth much. People too often hear “multiple firsts” as if they are lottery picks, when they more often then not end up players who can’t sniff a rotation.

Caruso is absolutely worth more than the 24th pick in the draft and it’s insane to think otherwise.

Cam is actually a good player - he can actually shoot the ball and would thrive in a good offense that can get him open looks.

If Kuzma could shoot the 3 like Cam Johnson he’d be off the Wizards already

What’s worse is the contract some of these guys are on. Like Caruso recently signed a 4 year 81 mil contract. He’s made of glass and is always hurt

Caruso I think we were blinded by his laker days, bulls not being in a lot of news(minus lonzo ball’s knees) and not really knowing how old he is.

rather gamble because insane value if it hits

Wow they’re just like me 

We’re going to have to do something. Right now we have 14 rotation players and salary to make almost any trade work. With our recent drafting history we’ll probably get at least one more rotation player out of this draft. I know there’s gotta be an eastern conference team that needs depth and is willing to give up a good player for it. Hell I’d even take picks and expirings at this point just to get something

I mean, he’s the first option. He’s going to put up stats. It’s not like he’s putting up those numbers on great efficiency. Just one of those guys that is doomed to either be first option on a shit team, or third/fourth option on a good one. The most success he has seen was as a role player on the Lakers.

We traded for both at least years deadline. But Gafford was also a Wizard.

Washington should’ve learned from themselves with Beal

They did it one time right and got a championship, but everytime after they have held onto their players for way too long and end up losing them for peanuts.

From the Bulls*

At this point, it’s like don’t be that team

We lost Kawhi FVV for nothing, didn’t get much for siakam, only good one was OG. And let’s not talk about GTJ for powell

Teams need to learn from the team that traded OG and Siakam in their last year?

Best rental in the history of the NBA tbh

And that’s why they fired their FO after he made all these stupid decisions that fucked them!

Realistically, they should be ruined from that Bradley Beal move. The fact that they got a protected first is insane.

poole has been playing better this year for us than he ever played in golden state, kuzma is just a loser with an attitude problem who thinks he’s better than all this

Yeah this is one of the major risks of tanking - when you tell players your goal is to lose every single game you run the risk of them mentally checking out.

This is a problem with guranteed contracts, not tanking. Players in a contract year have motivation to play well even if the team sucks.

What did he do? I admittedly don’t keep up with Kyle Kuzma news.

Y’all need to just straight up freshen things by switching back to the Bullets. Big anti-woke sentiment going on now perfect time to do it AND you might be able to get Ja Morant to sign someday

He is as stupid off the court as he is on it.

Refused a trade to Dallas last deadline thinking he could be offered a bigger role for a better team. Mavs proceeded to make the finals lmao

Turned Mavs down said he didn’t see us as contenders and didn’t fit his timeline basically. So yeah he deserves what he gets

As you can see in my post, I said it definitely makes sense to hold onto guys like Brogdon or Temple who have been praised for their vet leadership, and don’t have a lot of value anyways so you’re not missing out on assets by holding onto them.

The Wiz already have 2 vet role models who are “actually playing” solid minutes in Val and Brogdon, so I don’t know how much losing Kuzma really hurts them in that regard. I guess you are right in that we don’t really know the inside of the Wizards locker room, and maybe Kuzma is some beacon of professionalism and leadership for them, but going off how he carries himself and how he actually plays on the court, he doesn’t seem to be some irreplaceable positive example for the young guys that he’s not worth losing for 2 1sts.

The good news for them is that his contract is heavily front loaded and actually tails off to a pretty reasonable value the next 2 years (although it does have a 15% trade kicker..). So they can recoup some of that trade value if he is able to get back to the level of play he was showing last year.

Ya, I just checked out his contract and it does look super reasonable going forward with how front loaded it was, other than the 15% trade kicker, which I guess he could waive for the right team anyways.

Hopefully he gets back on track next year and can recoup that trade value for you guys or at least improve his play and help show the young guys how to play winning basketball.

That was almost 5 years ago. Any winning habits he HAD (key word) have been drowned out by Wizards culture by now