AD Traded to Lakersfor:Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart and three first round picks from the Lakers
Q: why are 1st-round picks considered much less precious in the NBA than NFL? In the NFL they are treated like a prized golden commodity (can’t recall ever hearing of one player being traded in the NFL for 3 first-round draft picks), whereas in the NBA they’re thrown about like nothing.
It’s like an NBA 1st-round pick is only worth an NFL second-rounder or third-rounder.
The only ones I can think of are Herschel Walker and RGIII.
I think it’s more that a truly elite basketball superstar has more impact on a team than a football superstar does, and so is worth more in draft picks. JJ Watt or Odell Beckham Jr aren’t by themselves going to turn your middling to pretty good team into a championship contender. Kawhi Leonard evidently will, though.
The only exception to this would be elite quarterbacks in their prime, but they aren’t ever traded. How many 1st round picks do you think a team would have given up for Brady or Manning in their primes? More than 3, I guarantee you.
The Jay Cutler trade is maybe the best example. I think the Bears traded 2 firsts and a third (and their own QB) for him.
Of course we would, but in no way would that have cheapened the Warriors’ win, and eventually it’d be largely forgotten.
Durant and Thompson’s injuries affected the series, no one said they didn’t.
Congratulations to the Raptors. While Kawhi will never, ever be my favorite NBA player (but could nicely fit in the all-important Sports Hate pantheon), he has another ring, which made him shitting all over his ex-coach (the one with a dying wife) worth it.
I actually think he might stay. Toronto is a lot like San Antonio in that nobody really cares about what happens there, but is twice the size which may have its appeal. We’ll see.
Pelicans now have a chance to destroy seven promising careers, instead of one. Can they do it?
The championship parade is almost 3 hours behind schedule, due to the size of the crowds.
Which is the most Toronto thing that has ever happened.
And a shooting, the next most Toronto thing that could happen.
For such a safe city, it’s rather NOT a Toronto thing.
Oh well, no one died.
Saddened to hear that with Lonzo’s move to NO, the much smaller market will shamefully deprive his charismatic, measured father the broad enough platform from which he can dispense his bon mots of scintillating (and much welcome!) prudent wisdom and conviviality.
I have to give the Boston Celtics props for drafting Romeo Langford in the first round. He’s from my hometown, went to my high school(not nearly at the same time, though), and seems to be a genuine nice guy.
So hometown kid makes good.
Free Agency officially kicks off this Sunday night. Any interest in a new thread?
I suppose you could start the 2019-2020 season thread, since, in effect, that’s what free agency will be a part of.
What the hell. Coming soon.
And here we are.