re: Pelicans with plenty of love in Simmons' worst contracts piece

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Can't believe people questioning the Jrue trade.

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It's not the home run some pretend.

Holiday is good. But it is certainly fair to question if they would have been better off playing the long game with 2 lottery picks and cap space.

Obviously they would have to endure growing pains and more losing (What? That's happening this year too? Oh), but say they picked Burke and then grab Saric this summer? Plenty of cap space to supplement Davis/Anderson and time to let all of those guys grow.

I get why they made the moves they did. I did like them at the time and I still do like them on the whole. But I do wonder about playing it the other way.