Reasons to not trade away our 1st round pick

OG Anunoby makes me cream my pants

BC of the short shorts? Same

I really like De'aaron Fox, once he fills out his frame more he will be a star

Let's go in even another direction.

Not selling our first rounder for a major future expense allows us:

Increased future flexibility and additional positive assets that can likely net you a better return in the future then the present because you will have better chips to cash in(cap space, young cheap talent that can be moved easily, future draft picks, ability to absorb contracts in blockbuster trades). And it allows your organization better flexibility to more optimally address wants and needs of the team as they arise without as much unrecoverable risk.

You do understand the future is now right? Guys AD is slowly about to enter is prime. We have Buddy and Diallo can be our 2017 fake rookie for all I care. This draft class is nice, but you guys are truly missing the point about establishing culture and a successful sports brand. AD will NOT wanna wait for a 18 year old to delvop

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frick this draft.

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this is dell's life motto and the reason we're in the predicament we are

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You do understand the future is now right? Guys AD is slowly about to enter is prime. We have Buddy and Diallo can be our 2017 fake rookie for all I care. This draft class is nice, but you guys are truly missing the point about establishing culture and a successful sports brand. AD will NOT wanna wait for a 18 year old to delvop

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AD is still 3 years from his prime. It doesn't matter what he wants anymore. He's locked in and there is no way he declines the new designated vet extension. It's way too much money to leave on the table. So don't worry about appeasing AD or making the playoffs this year. We need to worry about building a team including drafting/developing young talent.

The Pelicans really need to hire David Stern to overlook what the FO does and override any stupid trades for Basketball reasons. If it wasn't for him we wouldn't have AD right now anyway. Worrying if our current GM is going to frick us for years to come is a reality we have to face everyday he is employed.

This is all logically correct, but you analytics nerds (gallows and Anderson voice) are forgetting the most important thing about winning:


Building culture. The process of developing and drafting clearly creates a " wait until next year, tank, hey it's OK to lose because next draft class is loaded!" Mindset when in the end has postive asset's and long term implications, but yet you guys ignore the current state.

The current state is, loser mentality, careless mentality towards winning which players will (look at Jrue Holiday lackadaisical play in crunch time) low number of fans and game attendance, and a bad Aura around the franchise with free agents .

All of these things SHOULD be factor in, yet you guys are only showing one side of the "draft and stash" philosophy which makes it hard for me to respect it. Also what makes you guys so sure AD wants three more years of sucking? Like what superstar wants to live like that?

Let's thank from AD perspective:

Best player on a bad team, with a limited fan base, sub par talent, young players who will take time to groom, frustrating losses, while he watch past teammates leave this franchise and immediately win. Do you guys really ignore all of this??