He "breaks your heart?" This is some bull that I've been reading too much on this forum about DeMar since he's been here.
A good player is a player who has the skills to put the ball in his hands in crunch time who can handle taking the last shot, or dishing to an open teammate. DeMar has those skills. No other player on the team can sniff this role (except for maybe White when he gets some offense, or Walker if he develops consistency).
Your best player either makes or misses the shot and you live with it.
For a forum where everyone who knows how many shots Kobe missed in crunch time, and how much we know he was a volume chucker, yall should be smarter than to attach unnecessary emotion to your opinions of DeMar. He is who he is. A great offensive talent who is now flourishing in an open style of ball. A lot like when he was an MVP candidate in Toronto, he did the same when they opened up their offense there.
As for "worst good player in the league" I'd rather have this DeMar than any of these stars below.
Siakam
Conley
McCollum
Simmons
Embiid
Wiggins
Towns
Tatum
Tobias Harris
DeAaron Fox
Kevin Love
Blake Griffin
--many more.
, the way Curry is playing without his buddy KD, I'd rather have what we have been seeing in DeMar this season and in the bubble than Curry. He hasn't been a good player since 2018.
There's of course a ton of stars (besides the obvious list of the top 5-10 NBA players) who are better than him, to name a few:
Ja Morant
Booker
Jaylen Brown
Wall
Butler
Klay Thompson (when healthy)
CP3
Donovan Mitc
Oladipo
Murray (Denver)
But we don't have to have the best player in the league to be a good team or make runs in the playoffs again. Just a guy or two to rely on in crunch time the same way we used to have Parker/Manu, and a bunch of good role players, as well as a rock solid guy in the middle probably (late career TD).
But if you trade away DeMar, you all of a sudden have a surefire lottery team, as you have no one to give the ball to in crunch time who has the skills and mentality to get you a bucket. He "breaks your heart" has nothing to do with strategy at the end of the game.