re: Exploring a Luka for Zion swap

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healthy Zion

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Is an oxymoron if ever there was one.

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If you dont think a healthy Zion is Top 5 player in the league

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I don’t. And I’m not sure anybody but you and Zion and his family do either. Some people probably think he could be if he could stay healthy. But I’m not sure the list of people who think he can stay healthy is any different than you and his family as well.

There is zero chance Cuban trades Luka. He’s simply too valuable to that franchise even if they aren’t winning. But just to entertain this hypothetical, like others have said, you are severely underestimating what else we’d have to give up to get him. We’d have to give them Zion AND something close to what the Lakers gave us for AD. Or what the Timberwolves gave up for Gobert. Because you simply cannot count on a “healthy Zion” as one does not exist.

And this hypothetical still only makes sense if Luka is disgruntled to the point where Cuban has to trade him. And if Cuban is so pissed that he says “frick where you want to go, you’re going to New Orleans” and jeopardizes his ability to ever sign another superstar again, we may get 1 or 2 years from him before he forces his way out of here and we’re left with the worst roster in the league and no assets to get better.

Nobody with options is ever gonna want to come to New Orleans, and nobody here is ever gonna want to stay. Unless or until we start winning. We’ve simply GOT to figure out a way to make it work with Zion, whatever it takes. Or turn back into the Charlotte of the West, a franchise most people forget even exists until draft night.