This. Players can get injured or fall off at any time. And unfortunately in the case of “young developing talent,” there is all too many cases where the development simply doesn’t come.

To be fair BI is awesome yall just have a trash medical team lmao

BI has been better then AD this year

I think you saying the BI didn’t work out is not accurate.

BI with the raptors is absolutely living up to the billing as he was advertised to be. Assassin scorer who literally cant be guarded 1 on 1, and good team defender cause he has those long ass arms.

I think it says more about pelicans franchise that he was also labeled injury prone but this us hes top in the league in minutes played. I think your medical team is just atrocious tbh. Which makes me think a lot about zion, maybe he just isn’t getting the proper medical treatment he needs to be able to stay on the court.

What I’m saying is that franchises fail players just as much players fail to develop, it goes both ways. BI with the right franchise has definitely lived up to the billing.

I mean BI turned into a very good player, and Lonzo was a good player as well before his injury issues.

The real moral of the story is that nothing is certain in this business.

The Nets funded a perennial Celtics contender. The PG clippers trade is looked back on as a disaster, but not because of the picks, but because the interesting prospect became an MVP. Lonzo ball was looking like an extremely good point guard until his knee completely gave out on him. (Hell, if the Lakers didn’t get it done in that batshit 2020 season, that trade is just a meh-meh.) Zion and Ja Morant looked like franchise cornerstones at <22 and are quasi real players a few years later.

But with all that being said, I’d like to play the odds. And if I’m Milwaukee, my main focus is to a) not completely bottom out when I don’t have a pick and b) try and give folks some reason to come out to watch a game. (I’d also go back in time and not hire doc Rivers. (This is not a hindsight is ²⁰⁄₂₀ type deal. That applies to not trading for dame, but Glen “I didn’t go to medical school” Rivers was never a good hire.))

And I hated having to deal with people who were upset we broke up our “young core” lmao

That young core is barely getting you to the playoffs

As a raptors fan I’m not sorry BI didn’t work out for you guys because he’s working well for us!

Exactly.

The choice isn’t between the Warriors picks and some amazing young talent

No one is offering an amazing young talent

The other issue is young talent tend to be on team friendly deals. Even if Rockets are willing to trade Amen they have to come up with another 50 mil in salary to make it work.

Look I love Mobley but I would move him for a top 5 all NBA talent in Giannis

Unless you think one of those guys is a game changer that can turn the franchise around id go with the picks tbh

Because adding giannis to your team doesn’t mean automatic chip. So teams have to be careful

Not that I disagree, but the Cavs aren’t offering anything. They would have to move under the second apron (they’re $22.01 million over) before they can be involved in any trade where they’d have to aggregate salaries.

It could even get us someone like Micah Parsons!

steph is the franchise goat and the window.

you do whatever it takes to squeeze everything out of it to hell with the future.

i don’t care about any 116th grader right now that could be drafted 8 years from now

I wonder how many picks Giannis will be worth in two years? That’s the main argument if Curry is suddenly bad in two years and retires. Can you get a couple of those #1 picks back for him if you blow it up? Because the Bucks clearly just proved that it’s hard to just sign the best aging free agent every year and hoping that’s get Giannis out of the first round.

No, but they might judge their value based on the franchise giving the guy DNP-CDs all season

J-Dub was a Clippers pick that basically had everything going wrong for LAC in the prior season. That was the season where Kawhi missed all of it due his ACL tear, PG only played 31 games, and then the play-ins were brutal for LAC (choked a lead against Minnesota and then PG got COVID the day of the Pels game).

Your point still stands, but it took basically everything breaking against LAC in a singular season for this to happen. Outside of that, the LAC picks have become Tre Mann, Dillon Jones, and Nique Clifford. If LAC manages to squeak by and make the playoffs this season, that would mean all but 1 of their picks/swaps were outside of the lottery.

That’s not to say that first rounders aren’t valuable and you can’t get lucky, but the point is that it’s a huge gamble and the reason the PG trade was so fruitful to them was because they also got a young rookie who developed immensely more than what anyone could have imagined.

Larry Sanders was awesome until he just stopped liking basketball.

Henson too until ….I dont know what happened to him…

It’s always fuck Jason Kidd for what he did to that team and specifically Sanders on Christmas Eve that night.

just looked at your draft picks the past 29 years and damn you guys do suck at drafting. not that we’re much better

I think it’s more that yall suck at development. Some franchises are just bad at developing players, I’d say both the Bucks and Warriors struggle with that more than actually picking talent.

If the Bucks wanted they could probably trade one or two of these picks for Boozer or Dybantsa when they’re brought in to have a more certain franchise player to build around and focus on developing.

Nah, I’d say the majority of fans believe in a single timeline: Steph Curry.

The thing is, the likelihood of Steph getting us a chip before he retires, if supported by the FO, is so much higher than the chance of winning a chip in the ten years after Steph.

Damn is 31 years of age really old lol

Nope they won’t. Even if they have Giannis. Draymond isn’t leaving unless he retires. He will probably be there until Steph retires. It would be interesting how they build the team around those 3.

Or Jokic

Funny enough they’ve traded most of their seconds

Have you heard of pick swaps?

You know what else changes everything? All the Warriors’ first round picks.

It’s there in the title. League sources lean towards a Warriors trade offer because it has four picks.

Hes also the youngest player on the warriors

There’s also the chance that they re-tool that team fast. The 2027 FA class is really nice. They’ll have a clean cap sheet and the bird rights of Giannis + Curry. Given Curry being closer to retirement, it wouldn’t be shocking to see him sign a team friendly deal that allows them to build around Giannis + FAs along with Curry.

Maybe it goes south and Giannis walks and Curry retires quickly after, but you’re putting all of your chips behind GSW imploding considering the player talent the Bucks would be getting is… not inspiring.

Because they arent as great as made out to be They barely beat an injured pacers side

Reality is giannis makes them unstoppable They have way too many picks that will never be used they need to move on from some of them

There’s no reason to think that Steph Curry, who is still averaging 27/3/5 on 45/39/93 shooting splits, is going to announce his retirement tour next season.

In fact, I’d argue very strongly that he isn’t going to retire that quickly, and instead would have more of an openness to take a team friendly deal in 2027 so that they can build a more solid team around Giannis + him as he ages out.

Fuck I have something in common with Adam Silver?