re: Shams: Pels one of teams interested in Beal

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I'm even ok losing Jrue for Beal, as i would assume Jrue would have to go to a 3rd team, but i sure as shite am not giving up 3 first round picks (NAW/Jax/1st) to do it. I'd maybe consider giving up a first and that's it, and even in that scenario, i'd want the first from whatever good team Jrue is going to.
Something like Jrue to the Warriors, Wiggins to the Wizards, Beal to the Pelicans, and maybe we throw a first at Washington

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People gotta stop thinking this way.

If Beal’s market value today is two lottery level picks, a borderline allstar, and an unprotected first, what is his value at 29 after playing on an elite team for three seasons?

It’s probably still going to be around 1-2 lottery picks, a borderline all star, and an unprotected first round pick.

Or, you keep him longer because he is winning championships with you.

So on net the cost is not going to be that high. The question is does he make the most sense? If he gets us a championship and keeps us in the conversation for 5 years is it worth that cost? On the latter the answer is an obvious yes, if the former than I think you can have a more open debate about path forward.

I am still intrigued about a situation where we go after Turner and develop some of these guys and then look at flipping them. Of course that also depends on Jrue and what his next contract will look like. As he will be north of 30 playing toward his 35th birthday and that could be a major hindrance if he commands high dollars. But if he is willing and the Covid market works in our favor, him playing out the rest of his career as our Iggy is really intriguing while we make less all in moves to more organically build.


Moral of the story is we can go a lot of directions and not feel like we are backed into a corner if it wasn’t the perfect outcome. Something we couldn’t say for much for during the AD era where we just depleted our war chest as quick as we could on riskier assets.