re: Pels want to move to top of draft, BI to be “aggressively” shopped per Stein

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Only due to historic injury luck that's bordering on a curse. What will a draft pick in a very, very mid-draft do to change that? Again, the odds are that this pick will not come close to the player BI is.

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Ok so now we’re cursed lol. Well I don’t know if theres a solution for that but there is a solution to making your team good enough to compete despite injuries.

A top 5 pick in any draft CAN make a difference- im not saying he will for sure but its also a big possibility he can. Odds are that player may be much cheaper and better fit than BI which make our team overall better. Its not about getting the better player- its about making your team better.

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How does this increase the ceiling? That's the part you're stating without any backing. Again, the odds are that this pick will not come close to the player BI is.

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That pick may hit and his ceiling may be higher than you think. Which is a possibility for a top 5 pick in any draft. You shed BI contract- freeing up money to maje your team better. And again its not about necessarily getting the better player but moving BI will make our team better. And you can add cheap players that make this team while having money to spend- thats how you increase the ceiling. Its not about getting the better player than BI- its about getting a better fit whos cheaper and makes our team overall better.

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When the injury gods favor us, we clearly are not.

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Every team has injuries- the truth is BI and Zion are injury prone players. You can survive having one star injury prone but not both. Thats honestly the big issue we depend too much on two guys that get injured.

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Historically bad injury luck, bordering on a curse. The same issues this franchise has had since the CP3 era.

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I can’t help you with curses. Maybs tell pels to hire a witch doctor.

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Duren ain't good. The #5 pick isn't valuable.

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Duren is an athletic 19 year old center who has shown flashes of being pretty good. Its something this team has been missing at the center position

Any #5 pick in a draft is valuable. So thats just false. There are different levels to that value according to the draft. But even in this draft there us value at 5. Ausar was picked last year at 5. High likelihood of Reed Sheppard and Topic being there at 5.