Morey I think wants to prove himself smarter than Presti - so he always tries to make deals with him so he can be like “oh I won that one on Sam”

It’s why he made the statement of how they traded McCain for his peak the other day. Wants people to think he won over Sam.

House

I mean we’re all going to die one day

Shit no. When he retires he can go be mayor. He would get elected, easily.

Not so long as we continue ritually sacrificing animals to fuel his powers.

Maybe if he gets bored.

Westbrook was exiting his prime. His season with the rockets was his last year being a winning player as a 1st/2nd option. They got off him at the right time and got a year of CP3 mentoring Shai and all the other young guys on the roster as well

Sengun is not that good

Yeah but even Sam Presti’s biggest loss ended up with him getting Steven Adams who he traded for a Denver first rounder that he again traded to get the 11th pick in the 2022 draft. Now when push comes to shove maybe he would’ve always took JDub and not Dieng, but he realized he & his organization loved both players and he made the correct moves to have the optionality and ammo to trade 3 first round picks for the eleventh pick in the draft (Knicks) so he didn’t have to choose between JDub and Dieng.

In other words, it’s really not that big of a stretch to see the indirect relationship between how his biggest loss of a trade ended up working out in his favor a dozen years later. Not everyone has his job security or good fortune to become GM when the team wins the 2nd pick in the lottery (maybe the Sonics take Oden if they won the lottery and don’t trade Ray Allen for the same package if Boston got the 2nd pick), but he is the only person who could maneuver the way he does regardless.

After trading Harden and losing Durant, he became significantly better as a front office executive which is what makes his story remarkable. He’s the basketball LBJ (the president lol). Also very Similar to how much better LeBron got post losing to Dallas though lol. There’s a quadruple entendre rap bar in here somewhere i swear

We have zero idea if Presti would’ve took Sengun at 16. Or if Daryl would’ve either btw.

Btw—hilarious for you to point towards that pick because we need to rewind a little further back. This was the second time Presti got his lick against Daryl after winning the Westbrook-CP3 deal.

The year is 2020. The 76ers just watched Jimmy Butler lead the Heat to the NBA Finals before losing in six games. They chose Al Horford, Tobias Harris, Josh Richardson and a Miami Heat 1st round pick over him.

Now Daryl is in Philly after leaving Houston, and one of his first moves is to reverse the supermajority of the FA acquisition that let the Heat get Jimmy Butler: Al Horford. So he gives up a first to salary dump Horford while OKC rehabs his image like Sark or Kiffin going to Alabama post USC. It’s a 2025 top 4 protected first rounder, 2026 unprotected.

So he gets Horford and a 2025, top 4 protected (hi VJ Edgecomb) which transforms into a 2026 unprotected 1st rounder (which OKC still owns; and notably, did not, trade it back to the 76ers despite Houston having eight or so more wins than the 76ers—the HOU 1st rounder is what he actually traded to get McCain on the clearance sale; AGAIN, he can thank Daryl, as he got this HOU 1st rounder in the CP3 for Westbrook —Daryl might have a humiliation kink as this McCain deal literally shines a spotlight on his previous failures all at once) for Danny Green who he additionally acquired as a salary dump from the Lakers.

Now it’s 2021. The Celtics have gone two seasons without Al Horford and realize they need him more than ever. Gordon Hayward is a shell of himself, Kemba is on his last legs, and Kyrie is with Durant in Brooklyn; they just eliminated Boston in the prior postseason. Horford, was considered the Embiid stopper, but Boston realized he was an unappreciated superglue guy w/connective energy who was needed as the Jays are two Alphas without great playmaking ability. So Boston trades for Al Horford by giving up Kemba Walker and a first round pick. That pick is 16th in the 2021 draft.

Morey’s replacement, Rafael Stone, has a home run 2021 draft. Jalen Green carried the team, post becoming a father, until they reached a dead end where he was apart of a deal to acquire Kevin Durant. And Stone takes an aggressive risk that paid dividends by acquiring the 16th pick for two first rounders. Presti would then take a page outta Stone’s playbook the following year by trading three first rounders, including the two acquired from the Sengun deal, in an aggressive move to acquire Ousmane Dieng.

Now, you might think that means he lost the trade; or, if you’re looking at it practically, this draft ammunition prevented him from making the mistake of taking Ousmane Dieng at 12 or someone else trading with the Knicks to take JDub at 11. Presti loved two players and had the luxury of getting both without getting hurt from an ammunition-asset perspective.

This couldn’t have happened without the CP3 to Russ trade first, then the LAL salary dump of Danny Green, and lastly the rehabilitation of Horford post 76ers. Just a fuckin unreal leveling up with each major transaction by Presti. No one else in NBA history could’ve done something like this. And the fuckin tasty cherry on top of the rocket-ship: Houston’s first rounder he traded for McCain instead of the 76ers is a subtle reminder for nerd-observers like myself how well executing and calculating he has been since Durant left.

Bravo.

Traded your most beloved franchise player 2 years removed from winning mvp all nba player still in the prime of his career and the best thing you have to show for it is nice bench player in Aaron Wiggins is not good work bro

He also could have drafted Jalen Duren instead Ousmane Dieng in 2022. He was right there and OKC had a glaring need for big guys at the time.

He’s allergic to drafting 6’8 plus Uber athletic wings for some reason

None of the players he got in return for Westbrook got him a ring 3 of the players McCain topic and the 2027 pick played a single minute during the run and Wiggins averaged 6 points on 52% ts

The Paul George trade return got us the chip.

Cp3 got traded for a bunch of inconsequential players and 1 first a 2022 first which ended up being the 30th pick which Presti traded anyway