Clips lowkey got a haul

He’s one of the best centers in the league

its not insane, teams like Indiana have to take risks to become top contenders. Nobody is going to Indiana in free agency

Mathurin is basically a free agent and Indiana didn’t want to pay him, the pick has very little chance that it becomes better than Zubac considering the protections

People are overreacting

if Hali bounces back then the 29 is going to be in 20s and not that good.

Ben Mathurin has to be extended, now he’s probably a neutral or negative asset.

I agree the picks are nice but Zubac is so good and his contract is incredible. If the pacers get to keep their top 4 pick this year this deal is a home run.

One of these teams got fleeced, and we’re waiting on the results of a coin flip to find out who 🤣

He’s lowkey been a lemon this season as well

Insane overpay in a throw away year, it’s like they need to make this trade now. Don’t even like the fit that much zubac doesn’t exactly fit that face paced offense. Tho I’m sure they’ll find a way to make it work.

I disagree, that 29 unprotected pick is going to be in the 20s most likely - so basically banking on a 47% chance of getting the Pacers 2026 pick…

Mathurin sucks honestly

We really need a center, and if the pick isn’t a top 4 pick, we were probably just gonna spend it on a center gamble anyways. It makes a ton of sense for us. Plus we aren’t paying Benny this offseason we getting something for him is great. Works well for clippers too, they can afford to match whatever offer he gets in RFA.

The 29 unprotected is likely to not be anything amazing either, this is the one year we have ever tanked in decades lol. Even if we are bad we’ll likely be a top 8 in the east team.

And then for this year, unless it’s too 4, it’s like that family guy meme. “A 5-9 pick could be anything, it could even be a Zubac that we desperately need!”

what a flip since they got Zubac (and Michael Beasely) for Mike Muscala originally

Especially since there’s no guarantee that Haliburton is the same when he comes back

Fucking people on r/pacers are saying we’ll claw our way to the play-in.

Motherfuckers, we have triple the amount of losses that we do wins lmao. Just shut the rest of the damn season down.

or they win so much that the pick ends up going 10-30

Tanking doesn’t do anything for them, no matter how bad your record is at best you have a 47.9% chance of picking 5 or worse

Jazz in the West and Pacers in the East

Right? I’m fine with this

People on Reddit overvalue first round picks.

Thank you. Mathurin was gone anyway this offseason. Without this trade and the pick is 5-9, then we would have missed out on the top 3 and have no center for Hali back. Now we have the same chance for the top rookies and have a center.

Incorrect man. The top 3 are elite prospects out of college since maybe zion. The next 3 imo are Caleb, Flemings and Wagler. They are also difference makers but Peterson Boozer AJ are on coopers level

This is absolutely the most sensible take of any here. I also assume not many non clippers fans watch clippers games, so they don’t know how good Zubac has been.

Yeah drafts historically really drop off after the top 4 or so, and it looks like there’s an upper tier of 3-4 players this season. Especially now with rookie scale being higher, picks 5-9 are actually a good chunk of change, so if you’re not sure they can be a reliable playoff player pretty quickly then they actually can make things awkward when dealing with aprons and stuff. Fair value for a great player.

I did too lol

Wild stat.

That core plus high level role players like Nembhard, Nesmith, Toppin, and if Jarace Walker/Johnny Furphy develop into something? Yeah they’ll be a fun team in the east for a while.

It was fake

😂 we got baited

My heart literally dropped to my ass.

fake

Idk but I blocked him lol. These are serious times here no space for bullshit

The pacers desperately need center and have a wealth of guards so it makes sense

It would be tough for us to find a spot for the 30th pick on the 5x defending champs anyway, let em have it

shit is not real

Huh

Oh go fuck yourself

I don’t, if we don’t get a top 3 pick in this draft then it’s not that useful to us anyway.

Either way we have Hali-Pascal-Zubac next year and a decent chance we add in a contributing rookie.

We had to deal with game 4 Scott Foster fuckery and lost our star PG in game 7 of the finals so the NBA owes us at this point.