I was thinking this as well but honestly it seems like the Lakers giving up 27 and 29 unprotected allows them to recoup some of our ownership of them. Even though it is down the line.
I think the issue is Kyrie might just tell Sean to fk off and not show up for the rest of the season.
Kyrie, Durant, Gordon,Bruno to LAL Westbrook, Christopher, Lakers 2027 and 2029, Brooklyn 2024, Garuba , KMJ to Brooklyn. Davis to Houston.
Kyrie will likely say, "You're right, I'm under contract, pay me while I roll the ball to the other team. Let me know when you've got that trade worked out."
Really sucks that Kyrie keeps finding himself in these bad situations that he has to get away from. I'm sure he'll be happy with his next team.
This is really the primary risk. The thing I ask myself (if I'm the hypothetical GM) is what price would I pay for a rental of a player like Kyrie for a championship run. The Rockets just a few years back paid a pretty decent first round pick for Lou Williams as a rental. So if a GM thinks Lou Williams is worth a first as a rental, surely Kyrie's services are worth more than just one Lakers first rounders so it makes sense to just hold him for a playoff run in theory. But 100% you are right that his unreliability, and mercurial personality is a factor here. If you think there's a 60 or higher % chance of him sulking, faking an injury, or whatever to punish the Nets for not trading you at the deadline, you are screwed either way and might as well take the Lakers picks & Russ.
It would be hilarious if Stone could package Gordon ($19) and Kevin Porter Jr ($5.2) to Brooklyn to facilitate some team trading for Kyrie, like the Lakers or Phoenix. We would gladly take back some combination of players and a first-rounder from that 3rd team. I'm sure Tillman would buy out any veterans (like Patty Mills if he ended up in Houston, caught in the numbers fray). I mean what can the Nets expect to get at this point in Kyrie trade other than peanuts?
He won't do it because he will lose money on next contract and runs a risk of someone he respects and promised allegiance to (KD) calling him out as immature and really a "b*tch ass" teammate and said claim be legitimate because no one else in the league ever sat out due to not getting an extension they wanted. And doing so on a team that has championship chances is going to make Irving a laughing stock of the league
Irving doesn't care what anyone thinks. He marches to his own drum (or the tune he hears in his head).
Is it just me or have the people here become very soft? Who cares about all of that outside of basketball? When the guy is on the court he is winning. That's all that matters. That's all what SPORTS is supposed to be. You buncha softies have turned it into a soap opera.
what a strange post after he won the title with lebron in clev, when is the last time he won anything since he left Cleveland. This is the amount of games played in the last 4 years 20 of 72 54 of 72 29 of 82 40 of 51 Of course folks care of the stuff outside of basketball bc that's exactly what Kyrie cares more about. how you equated softies and soap opera with folks taking into full account what comes with Kyrie makes no sense. Kyrie himself is literally the one creating all that nonsense, not anyone else. You posted as if its the opposite nobody here has denied Kyrie is good at basketball. It's all the other BS that comes with him that negates it. what's funny is this comes right after the Nets were blown embarrassingly out the building by Boston from start to finish
Nah. It'd be the same if he was a 90s or 80s player. He's just a headcase in the worst ways. Rodman was barely put up with and he was a much more impactful player for team winning. Kyrie is such a polarizing player to rank with all time point guards. You know the skill. You know the excitement. Big shot maker, but i swear when i think of Kyrie i think of a part time basketball player who stopped playing full time after his run in Cleveland and he's just kinda making guest appearances here and there. I guess todays NBA is a lot like a pick up game anyway.
When the guy is on the court is the operative phrase here. I’d take the ball player if I knew he’d play ball.
People who post and repost on social media tend to care of what others think. Or are you suggesting the dude is a total wack job and has zero rhyme and reason as to what he posts and reposts? He certainly spent a whole lot of effort recruiting KD and has always (ie consistently) proclaimed that KD is a stud. Yeah, not buying the whole mercurial thing. Dude just wants to get paid and is getting emotional over the losses piling up lately. Pretty simple really.
None of that really negates his play. It shouldn't for true sports fans. The problem was never Kyrie or anything he said or didn't say. The problem is the NBA should have never started spying on players social media accounts. We (fans)easily forget that these players are actually people who won't always agree with the norm.
oh it doesn't? if you're priorities aren't even the game and you're not even playing how in the world does that not negate it. his job is to play basketball not convince the earth is flat and what religion is no that's not the problem. The problem is Kyrie himself. It's funny how he is the only player that comes across all these issues. He doesn't belong in the general forget these players are actually people claim. He's Kyrie who tries to do whatever tf he wants without any regard for any outcomes
and who, other than old friend Johnnie Dubya, do they wanna dump out of? Mebbe Reggie. Now, where’s the other 20 mil?
Take your pick Powell $16 mil morris $16mil Kennard $13 mil Covington $12 mil Reggie $11 mil Batum $10 mil Wall $6mil
