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This seems to be a topic of divide amongst Nets fans in the lead up to the draft.
Which side are you on?
Do you do it? Do you not do it?
What’s your rationale why or why not?
Inb4 the incels, post-2019 fanboys, and Gen-Z safe-spacers post their inevitable:
“OP cray bro lmao!”
“Na chill OP you a 🤡🤡🤡”
“In wut world r those piks better than PHX piks thas delusional lmao” (because they always take the time to google how to spell delusional and nothing else).
“OP a Marks and Tsai burner lol. They played Kyrie!”
This is what I’ve observed as a divide here the last few weeks. I’m merely posting the question to start the discussion.
Would you do this deal, or not?
by theRestisConfettii
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I would as it would give us full control of our own future but I understand why some might be against it
Absolutely no way. I want to keep the PHX picks because they don’t push the team to tank, but to compete while adding assets. The PHX picks will likely be better anyway and we lose a 1st round pick in this trade (we get two swaps and send one swap).
If at any time you can make your team better while another one loses games and sweetens a draft pick for you, it’s the best move to make. That’s how Boston got to where they are and it’s what Houston wants to do if they can’t dangle our picks for somebody like Mikal.
No, two of those are swaps and the pick this year nobody seems to want.
Also, this trade would mean we effectively traded KD, Kyrie and Harden plus the draft picks Houston has used for Mikal, CamJ and Simmons plus 2 future firsts, one of which is protected. Just malfeasance by the front office
No. Stop posting this shit over and over
No. There is no point in keeping bridges if we’re trading for our picks back.
It doesn’t make sense to trade away the phoenix picks unless we’re blowing it up. Even then, the phoenix picks may be more valuable
Personally yes, I would do this. I value having control of our own picks in the present day and near future much more than hoping Phoenix becomes bad in a few years while not having our own picks now.
If we did this, we could choose to draft young talent around Mikal while he’s still on his current contract or it would allow us to explore Mikal trades with teams other than Houston.
No shot.
Those Phoenix picks are the most valuable picks in the NBA right now. The #3 pick in this draft is not worth it.
I can understand people wanting our picks back though. 2025 is a great class and would give us a chance to get a premier talent if we tanked.
Our front office already said they weren’t interested in trading the suns picks or Mikal for our picks back. I appreciate that you’re getting your hopes up, but this team has already decided what they’re going to do.
Houston already asked us if they could trade us our picks back for even 2 of the Phoenix picks, and we already said no. In what universe would it make sense to say no to a better deal to accept a worse deal?
And furthermore, the nets FO is pretty confident that the nets won’t be terrible this year. We, the fans, are none too confident; but the FO seems to think we’re mid tier, maybe a 40 win team, and so our picks would be worthless to us. If everything goes according the FO plan, those nets picks will be somewhere in the 10-30 range, and apparently they think the Suns will be worse than us over the next few years.
**I think** our end goal is to try and get Cooper Flagg. I think pretty much every NBA team’s goal is to get Flagg. If the Suns play like miserable hot garbage over the next few season, they basically gifted Flagg to us. I think we shouldn’t move those picks. Alternatively we want our picks back if we’re going to tank. I personally believe we’re gonna be garbage, so I agree we should’ve already traded for the picks back when the deal was Mikal for the picks.
When I think about it, we traded those picks for James Harden, and now they want to give us those picks back for Mikal Bridges. I don’t see that as equivalent exchange and I’m pretty sure it would be closer to highway robbery to say Mikal could be traded for the same assets as James Harden. Mikal ain’t no James. But the FO thinks I’m wrong, that’s all I know.