so I guess that I reject the premise that u have to draft at your draft position. Good GM’s make trades up and down the board to access value. They also trade picks for future picks, even sometimes trading out of drafts entirely. It’s not always possible, but for example, I know for a fact we could have traded down and/or out of the Reed draft. Certainly Cadtle was the better prospect, probably Clingan too. Same with the Jalen draft. Barnes and Mobley are better players. Hell, Franz, Giddy, Jalen Johnson are better players. In the Bari draft we now see that Duran and JWill would have both been better picks, but I don’t begrudge Stone that pick. My point is several of our top 4 picks have not panned out well. None of our picks in the early 20’s have panned out. Tari was a great pick, but he’s a role player. Sengun and Amen (who was the obvious pick) are the home runs…out of all those picks. I just think that’s a very mixed track record. Just my opinion of course.
I won’t say that I know his personal views in depth but I know that he’s given speeches on racial wealth gaps, systemic inequalities and mentioned wanting to bring something akin to Blackwall Street to Boston. Brown has also been outspoken on policing issues
Does anyone give a crap about any of this? Like if he was making 20% of the cap instead of 35% of the cap teams would have been lining up to get him. Every non superstar on a supermax who gets traded gets traded for nothing, that’s the reality of the new cba.
The pick of Green and Christopher was was the fail especially with Barnes and Mobley on the board. They fell for the highlights vs a guy young, sound with upside like the 2 earlier. Barnes or Mobley with Sengun eliminate the signing of FVV or Brooks.
I was speaking specifically about Tilman's desire to trade for him (which appears to have been none). I don't think that Brown's political views were the only reason but I don't think they were a non-factor. Tilman doesn't strike me as the type to want an employee with radically different views than his own. But maybe I'm wrong.
So if trading for brown was a positive for the rockets, you think he would pass? I was vehemently against trading for him because of the cap situation but if he was making reasonable money it’s totally different.
