Recent content by Ensign Nate

Nevermind. The Nets got their own pick back.

I really prefer to keep Lauri and build around him, but the timelines just don't match up. Houston makes a lot if sense as a trade partner because they want to win now and have tradable assets including a 2025 pick swap with the Nets.

So, what's preventing Utah or any other team from drafting Bronny and then holding the Lakers hostage for his draft rights?

Me too!

Completely agree. No reason taxpayers should be funding stadiums. I think everyone knows that if it was put up to a general election public funding would lose overwhelmingly. So instead you just grease a few palms of elected officials, and VOILA! you get a billion dollars for free. For a...

So, the one wrinkle here is that Ryan wants to keep making money. He wants to keep selling tickets, and jerseys, and tshirts, water bottles, etc. and Lauri is a big part of that. And of course, Ryan is trying to convince state lawmakers to use public funds to pay for the little kingdom he's...

I will readily admit that I don't know what the best option is with Lauri. If he plays a lot, he actively undermines the tank. If you trade him, there's no way to get comparable value. When you trade away a star you immediately begin the process of trying to figure out how to land the next...

I will acknowledge that Ainge is pretty good at manipulating the media. He's good at dropping quotes and letting info slip out to create a smokescreen or misdirection.

I'm not sure there are any big moves to be made this summer. Based and recent trades the price to acquire even mediocre vets is sky high, and there wasn't anything in this draft that warranted cashing in a bunch of chips. Still, sometimes you've got to make your own luck. And I've been pretty...

If Danny is operating on the assumption that you have to have a Top 10 or even Top 5 player to win a championship then the team clearly should have tanked hard both years. Tanking provides premium picks that could be great players or traded for great players. Spending two years idling in...

I agree. This isn't a case where impatient or short sighted fans can't sit through a rebuild. The problem is that this season in particular the front office doesn't really seem to have a plan. If they wanted to win this year they should have more aggressively persued a vet point guard and...

Jazz should have drafted Bane instead of Dok. If they had drafted Bane the entire trajectory of the franchise might have turned out differently. There's sometimes a few diamonds in the rough late in the first round and even second. But no one seems to have a good way of identifying them...

Definitely want to keep the pick this year. This is probably their last chance at an early pick. There's no way to predict where those Wolves and Cavs picks will fall. The worst case scenario would be conveying a #11 or #12 pick this year. Better to convey a #20ish next year. The picks they...

I think B+ is about right. These guys all seem like high floor guys with starter potential, but they aren't future all-stars. None of us really know how the Jazz felt about the guys drafted 5-8 or 10-15, but I would like to have seen a more aggressive approach in attempting to move up. Of...