I was so sick of KD and his lazy closeouts on 3pt shooters. When I saw it during the Suns game I was so relieved.
Serenadingthrough
I hope Marks doesn’t trade those picks away.
skinneej
Happy to have the picks, but after a decade of smug Celtics fans talking shit, I’m not gonna do the same to Suns fans.
Otaku_Instinct
big thanks to Mat Ishbia for trading us Bridges because he wanted to make a ‘splash’ 🙏
Cool_Cold_5554
It’s too early to gloat. They can still get it together and even if they don’t, their future is not totally dead. They still have Booker. They can trade Durant to replenish depth and youth. Or they can even trade Booker and get a haul. We had to blow it up with no control of our picks and we’re not a lottery team.
addictivesign
It is beautiful.
Sean Marks took advantage of a naive new owner. That is what the great GMs do, they find a leverage play and the execute it brilliantly.
I honestly think we might get 4 lottery picks and potentially very high picks from Phoenix because the Suns have no way to really improve the team. They have to hope Beal isn’t constantly injured and hope that Durant and Booker are consistently healthy. Otherwise they’ll definitely be in the lottery given how competitive the western conference is.
The Suns have Grayson Allan as a soon to be free agent. How much will he command on the open market? I’d imagine minimum $10 million but what will be the high end? If a team comes in with a big offer for him and the Suns don’t offer the same or more (because of the luxury tax payments) they have no way of adding replacement talent because they’re so far over the salary cap.
Cooper Flagg is seen as the number one overall pick in the 2025 draft. I know it’s unlikely but it would be awesome to select him with the Phoenix pick and he’d be transformative for Brooklyn.
The Nets lost out on the Jays in Boston because we had naive GM and front office executives (Billy King and Bobby Marks) who didn’t think about refusing to include swaps in the KG and PP trade or even protecting their picks number one overall – Would Boston have really turned down the deal if Brooklyn had agreed to the picks but said top 3 protected. No way because Boston never expected us to be a lottery team so soon.
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I was so sick of KD and his lazy closeouts on 3pt shooters. When I saw it during the Suns game I was so relieved.
I hope Marks doesn’t trade those picks away.
Happy to have the picks, but after a decade of smug Celtics fans talking shit, I’m not gonna do the same to Suns fans.
big thanks to Mat Ishbia for trading us Bridges because he wanted to make a ‘splash’ 🙏
It’s too early to gloat. They can still get it together and even if they don’t, their future is not totally dead. They still have Booker. They can trade Durant to replenish depth and youth. Or they can even trade Booker and get a haul. We had to blow it up with no control of our picks and we’re not a lottery team.
It is beautiful.
Sean Marks took advantage of a naive new owner. That is what the great GMs do, they find a leverage play and the execute it brilliantly.
I honestly think we might get 4 lottery picks and potentially very high picks from Phoenix because the Suns have no way to really improve the team. They have to hope Beal isn’t constantly injured and hope that Durant and Booker are consistently healthy. Otherwise they’ll definitely be in the lottery given how competitive the western conference is.
The Suns have Grayson Allan as a soon to be free agent. How much will he command on the open market? I’d imagine minimum $10 million but what will be the high end? If a team comes in with a big offer for him and the Suns don’t offer the same or more (because of the luxury tax payments) they have no way of adding replacement talent because they’re so far over the salary cap.
Cooper Flagg is seen as the number one overall pick in the 2025 draft. I know it’s unlikely but it would be awesome to select him with the Phoenix pick and he’d be transformative for Brooklyn.
The Nets lost out on the Jays in Boston because we had naive GM and front office executives (Billy King and Bobby Marks) who didn’t think about refusing to include swaps in the KG and PP trade or even protecting their picks number one overall – Would Boston have really turned down the deal if Brooklyn had agreed to the picks but said top 3 protected. No way because Boston never expected us to be a lottery team so soon.