re: Paul George: Should we?

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Yes. What Paul George really costs you is the assets you'd need to move contracts and create cap space for when Jimmy Butler is a FA in a few years. So would you rather make a sales pitch to Paul George for an entire year, or have the ability to hope Jimmy Butler will choose you in FA?

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I see where you're coming from and that makes a lot of sense. I'm all for the all in strategy. We might as well shoot for the stars with how we lucked into Boogie.

But the other option is to stay as flexible as possible while winning enough next year to keep Boogie. Doing that buys you some time to make other splash moves as they come available. You could argue that plan is just as risky as trading for George. But we'd likely also keep our picks with that scenario. Which is important because if this fails, that's our fall back. If we get George, we have no fall back plan. We suck for years with no way to rebuild and have no assets to give. That's scary as hell.

ETA: I suppose trading AD would be our fall-back plan like Ballhawk said. That makes all this a little less terrifying. I just don't think we could survive as a franchise if we fell into a situation like Brooklyn. Which is why I'm so hesitant