Can’t even trade for Kawhi because his under the table payments stop when he’s out of LA lmao.

Chefs kiss

Missed opportunity to say feed families.

Like Latrell’s family

It’s not though

Idk why he even tried. Wouldn’t it be dumb as shit to trade assets for a player who very potentially could get suspended

I wish he didn’t, at this point I miss watching process era just hoping for a flash.

Are we sure there wasnt something in the cake? Would explain the “Sold, high” thing

Na that’s bullshit. You can just have the McCain trade ready to go and if you find a Kawhi deal you make it a 3 teamer. You don’t need to trade McCain the day before to have the extra first.

Rockets first round pick is not a 2nd! That’s as real as it gets!

Meh. The article says sources suggest one of the players Morey was after was Kawhi and personally I think this is a nothing burger. Lots of question marks around Kawhi and you would think the Clippers value McCain over a late first.

KOC actually makes a really good point tho. Nick Nurse wasn’t using McCain (whether that was due to recent injury or Nurse just not liking him we’ll never know) and so Morey probably saw him as an easy piece to get under the tax while also picking up a frp.

The strange part is Morey himself said the pick was offered to many teams with no one offering a needle mover (shocker). But what is confusing to me is (and this is an assumption) the sixers would probably have sent that first and Drummond/Oubre (possibly Grimes even) to pick up a better player. BUT wouldn’t a selling team rather have McCain and some 2nds than a bad first and a salary dump? The whole thing just seems like straight up bad asset management from Daryl. Unless other offers for McCain were really that bad but I have a hard time believing that.

I disagree. I think he sold high

The number one overall pick is essentially just 30 number 30 picks 

McCain is an undersized two-guard who can’t run an offense and can’t defend. He has one skill, shooting. Were you this up in arms about Luke Kennard, the all-time leader in 3pt%, getting traded for a measly 2nd round pick?

If someone got a 1st & three 2nds for Seth Curry wouldn’t you call that a win?

And the pick is still a first. It’s currently 25th, half a game out of 23rd, a single game out of 22nd, a game and a half out of 21st.

Daryl: hey how about PG and picks for Kawhi? 

George would surely have been the one going to clippers in that deal.

Wait, you actually thought the idea here was to pair them?

Imagine PG and Kawhi on the same roster, they could probably make the finals and win

Smartest NFT investor

Imagine PG and Kawhi playing together on the same team

Defensive juggernaut

But didn’t you hear? People around here thinks it’s all ownership and not Morey.

Tbf I felt like a PG-Kawhi swap actually made a lot of sense for both sides and was the best move Philly could have made.

If you make that swap, I feel like if you are Philly, you feel good about at least making the conference finals with the injuries in the east and potentially getting to the finals. Kawhi’s deal is also a year shorter than PG’s so it would give them cap space next offseason.

For Clippers, if you get back your first and the swap, you can actually start tanking in the season after next. Keep PG as a tank commander. Let him get healthy and he might have some value in the last year of his deal as an expiring.

And that pick and swap are valuable for sure. But the clippers showed it this year that Kawhi, Harden, Zubac is good enough for a play in team or around there (assuming they make the Kawhi-PG swap before the Harden and Zubac trades). So if you are saying that first is going to be like the ~10th pick and the swap you are going from the 20th pick up to the ~10th, I think that’s worth it to Philly. But the risk is a clippers disaster season where that unprotected first ends up being a top 4 pick.

And the annoying part is his undue influence on how the game is discussed these days.

Im totally confident that you didn’t know that fuckhead

I don’t mean to interrupt the meme, but Sixers fans should be giving Morey the benefit of the doubt at this point.

This is the same sub that criticized Morey for drafting McCain in the first place over Dalton Knecht, and now they pretend like they never did. Same with waiting on trading Ben Simmons & the letting Yabusele walk.

He is a liar after all

they were not blowing it up. just stupid media commentary.

trading harden who wanted a new contract was the right move. and trading zubac who was being propped up by harden’s play when his value at all time high was good business.

it’s like saying they were blowing it up when they didn’t resign PG.

Kawhi still would have been an interesting fit for a team trying to do something, especially in the East.

His health is a huge issue and I’m not sure it really goes anywhere, but Kawhi and Giannis could have been fun as hell for a few months.

Wouldn’t PG be the matching salary going back the other way?

The PG Clippers reunion would be the funniest shit

I think in this scenario they’d trade PG and draft picks for Kawhi, so the money would match up

If only Lawrence Frank had the courage of his convictions.

Paul George contract for salary match. They own 2 of the clippers pick + got a 2026 pick and a bunch of seconds

Not enough assets to dump the horrid Paul George contract and get Kawhi

Leonard for George, and Philly puts in the Clippers’ pick in 2028, their swap rights in 2029 and one or more of their 2030-2032 picks. It’d rely on the Clippers deciding to tear things down, probably in advance of punishment from the league. It’d also rely, I think, on the Clippers believing that they wouldn’t have draft picks stripped, because if they have picks taken away they can’t tank. Relies on threading a needle but I can see why you’d at least make the call.

…the 76ers might maybe have also considered doing Leonard for Embiid to get off his contract.

Butler had two chances on his own and came up very short both times. If he had Embiid and whatever assets they could get for a prime Simmons, they’d be so good (and then so injured)

EDIT: Prime Simmons for Hali + picks or Siakam + OG would have been filthy lol