Charlotte would prefer BI

BI is probably the most untouchable player on the entire team. No chance he gets traded.

His first 3 years in Nola, he averaged nearly 60 games a season. In today's NBA, that isn't terrible.

This season, he averaged 25ppg (career high), 5.5 rebounds, 5.8 assists (career high), 88% FT (career high) on 6 attempts per game (career high), 39% from 3, 48% FG on 18.6 shots a game (career high).

He's also only 25 years old still.

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and is up for another big contract

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In like 2 seasons. He isn't up for any contract.

You cannot structure new extensions around CJs deal. This isn’t the NFL. To afford Herb and Trey extensions they will have to trade CJ. Dealing Zion would help though.

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You're very unlikely to get something in return that produces on the same level as BI. You may get a star player in return who does, but then you're paying a huge salary for them too. If you're hoping to get a star in the draft who puts up BI numbers, decades of history tell you that is extremely unlikely.

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I feel very confident Scoot will at least be an all star reserve one time within 8 years in the league like BI.

And you’d be paying a huge salary 5 years from now if scoot did become a star. Idk why that’s relevant rn.

Look if we were actually doing something with this team, I’d agree with y’all. But we’ve been mediocre at best for 4 years of this experiment with 2 playoff wins. This is a golden opportunity to get a potential franchise player. A guy who would have been number 1 in a lot of these recent drafts. Would also give us more flexibility to get shooters, give Trey more playing time, and a more concrete future even if we did trade Zion at some point.


Plus I think scoot is the type of vocal leader this team has craved from a star since the Griff era has started

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I feel very confident Scoot will at least be an all star reserve one time within 8 years in the league like BI. And you’d be paying a huge salary 5 years from now if scoot did become a star. Idk why that’s relevant rn.

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Exactly. We have salary issues right now. Five years is a lot of opportunity to fix the cap issues. Basically CJ will surely be gone and we can deal with Herb and Trey. The prospect of signing BI next year and Herb and Trey is really constricting. It means we’ll have to deal CJ from a point of extreme weakness. We’ll be paying someone to take his contract.

And let’s not forget they might rather keep CJ than BI or Zion. People like working with professionals. It might be nice having an adult on the team…

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nsert all BI’s career numbers from last year here…

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you can do that. All I know is those great numbers got us the 10th seed and losing to the fricking Thunder at home in the play-in. Ingram is like Derozen. Good numbers that don’t seem to translate to winning big and doing something special.

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Bro U seem to forget Injuries are the problem…not talent

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just another reason why you should get scoot. You can’t have BOTH your stars get constantly injured. If both get hurt again (likely) then you’re looking at another failed season. You’re blowing up the team at that point anyway.

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Zion don’t miss the season and pels are top 3 seed

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you know BI missed half the season too right? With his concussion that took 2+ weeks to recover, he’s turf toe that took 2+ months, etc. when BI gets hurt, he’s out for the longest possible time that injury requires to heal for. He only played in 55 the year before as well.

Meanwhile CJ played with a torn labrum and a fricked up thumb for months. Nance played injured as well. Players get hurt all the time like you said in this league. Some play through out. Others don’t (BI)


And who knows if we would have actually wound up top 3. We’re riding the success of a really good month of basketball and assume it would remain like that the rest of the way.