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Mavs are a dumpster fire lol. Does KD want to be in Lebron's and Luka's shadow? Spurs make the most sense. KD is plug-and-play.
lol I don’t want to overpay for KD either but trading Vassell and Keldon for him is a no brainer as long as you’re keeping the core 3 of Wemby, Fox and Castle.
Like holy some of you want the spurs to continue being a crappy team.
Mavs are a dumpster fire lol. Does KD want to be in Lebron's and Luka's shadow? Spurs make the most sense. KD is plug-and-play.
im more worried about the pick package needed. if they are going to want 2 firsts + vassell/keldon or whatever, then its not worth for KD at his age. not for us, anyway.
No picks 4 kd...makes no sense gor a 37 year old...hes not LeBron and that means he has a max range of 3 years of very good tò good tò Just ok Playtime. The point Is that his salary Is so High that DV and KJ (or HB) Need in any case tò be included in the trade. Imho the max offer then could be DV KJ plus Bassey and Braham 4 youth claims (plus in case some second round picks). Nothing more ..
This is how the conversation will go in the offseason:
Brian Wright: "Hey KD, wanna join the Spurs?"
KD: "Sure, who's the headcoach?"
Brian Wright: "Well Pop is trying to come back from a stroke"
KD: "So is Pop coaching this season?"
Brian Wright: "if he gets back to a 100% yes"
KD: "What if he doesn't?"
Brian Wright: "Then it's Mitch"
KD: "Let me talk to Mitch"
KD: "So Mitch, if I join the Spurs, what would the starting line up look like?"
Mitch: "Well it's a rubik cube that I need to figure out."
KD: "...."
Mitch: "Kevin, are you there?"
If Castle can raise his shooting percentage to league average from 3 then Sochan alongside KD would be pretty dangerous on both ends.
I can see KD helping CP3 get his 1st ring, on top of putting the Spurs back to being a contender after missing the playoff for so long. It’s the most ideal place for him to land. The problem is what is the haul the FO would be willing to give up to hire KD’s services for two years? Personally I hate giving FRP’s which the Spurs can continually use in the future to backup Wemby’s contending years. And as much as people hate Keldon and Vassell, they are potentially great role players behind Wemby, Fox, Castle and whoever potential high 2025 pick. I think it depends this coming draft which picks the ping pong balls would grant the Spurs. I’d say if one is top 4, then I seriously wouldn’t trade for KD’s short services for such high a price.
Last edited by John B; 03-07-2025 at 10:47 AM.
Downside of signing KD. I’d have to cheer for him despite his constant stupid remarks. But I guess that’s a good thing seeing as booing was invented in 1970…
Upside: literally everything else. KD has never whined about touches. He’s never whined about working hard or being coached hard. He’s never whined that the offense isn’t suited for him but rather the opposite. He suits the offense. He wouldn’t have to be a leader on this team. He is 6’10 and a better shooter, scorer, ball handler, passer, and defender than Vassell. Having KD on the team means we can actually start Sochan without the offense struggling in any shape or form. And a front court of Wemby, KD, and Sochan would be formidable defensively.
Also KD would take the time to actually teach Wemby his bag of moves. He gets general pleasure from doing that with younger players. And if Wemby does get hurt again, we have an actual go to scorer to replace him for a bit. I see zero downside to get Durant for 2 cheap FRPs
Yeah 37YO Durant at $54 million next season then $60 million a year the two after isn't worth two firsts to the Spurs. That would be Phoenix thinking they could get the similar value for Durant that they could have at the deadline but for a player that old the missed 2025 playoff run costs a lot towards his trade value. Only first I'm offering is the lesser 2025, or forget it if somehow both picks end up top 4 (can't imagine the Suns taking the 29 or the 32). All the other firsts the Spurs own up to 2031 other than the 2029 have juicy swaps attached and those only become available when big game hunting, like if Ant or Jokic or Tatum or someone at that level forced a trade.
Other upside of KD coming here:
He'd create burner Twitter accounts and go after the clowns in our local media and dumb Spurs fans. Maybe we'd get lucky and he'd even create a SpursTalk burner. Who will be his Anti-Avatar? He might beat LeBowen to the punch and have an Anti-Mitch first.
Imagine KD and mr. Body arguments.
This guy hasn't won anywhere in ages. I wouldn't give up two firsts for this guy. He's got maybe a year left of being impactful... if you can even call it that.
Well yeah if picks are involved then I say no too, but a straight up Vassell and Keldon swap, Son of a I’m in.
If we don't land KD, I hope that we could facilitate/exploit the Mavs/Suns trades that are bound to happen this summer.
Who knows, maybe we can get PJ Washington or Bol Bol for nothing? Lightning could strike twice.
If KD is willing to take a pay cut for his next contract like 35-40 millions a year, why not. 60 is too much considering his age and the fact that we’ll have Fox and Wemby getting a max.
Way to much
Let him go to Cavs !
Nope.
You know... I think there about 6-12 GMs in the NBA dumb enough to pay this kind of price. Of all the potential criticisms one could have our FO... this isn't one of them. Brian Wright has proven to be an adept asset manager.
It all depends on the quality of those picks.
Suns just traded away their unprotected 20131 FRP for 3 garbage FRPs and the only thing they did was trading away one of those garbage picks to get rid of Nurkic.
Three FRPs in 25-30 range aren't worth that much. With the new salary cap one can argue that early SRPs are more valuable than late FRPs.
He will be 37 by the time the season starts next year. Has there ever been a 37-year old player traded for 3 first round picks and a young player?
Has a 37 year old averaging 27ppg ever been traded?
I'd offer them Devin, Keldon, one lottery protected FRP and a bunch of seconds.
The kinds of teams who trade multiple FRPs for aging stars, tend to be the kinds of teams whose "garbage picks" end up becoming quite valuable. The Suns probably thought they were sending out garbage picks when they got Durant in the first place
If KD drives down his own value ala Fox, only then would I entertain a package involving anything more that one FRP+Vassell/filler. And even then I'm not renegotiating for over 3yrs/100M.
I wanna Angie enson. Let's see who gets lucky first.
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