LOL! From what I'm reading so far on this page, I'm guessing that my hypothetical trade of Book or KD to New York for Randle/Bojan and 3 first etc was/is not being well recieved for discussion.
Well context is important of course, and before more people lose their minds over that specific premise, please try and understand (with an open mind) that specific theoretical suggestion was only predicated upon the premise of
"Booker asking out" rather than being willing to possibly endure another rebuild IF we trade Durant (Which I'm ok with) in order to somewhat reconstruct our roster with better balance and depth. And again, as I had explained before, Randles' value coming back in a trade would be in that he first would represent significant salary filler to offset Books'
$49.7 next season for the necessary salary exchange likely needed for the trade to end up legal, as I don't believe they'd choose to gut their roster for salary matching. Randle would also bring us a big, physical, aggressive post big with playmaking skills and versatility that would then allow us to more easily trade Nurkic OR play both Randle AND Nurkic in the frontcourt to give us a 4/5 duo of BIG, STRONG, PHYSICAL, AGGRESSIVE, VERSATILE to help provide playmaking through the frontcourt that would make the backcourts' job much easier having to focus less on facilitating, and more on scoring (whether that becomes Beal and whomever, or Book and Beal IF KD was flipped to New York). Can people really not envision how that might work? And Bojan would represent a 20 million expiring contract that we could either use to begin significantly reducing our cap numbers, OR be flipped for other young players and assets/ picks??
Now the other contextual correlative for a theoretical of Book being traded to New york was based upon two factors:
1- Bookers' connection to Leon Rose.
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/devin-booker-on-knicks-radar-suns-stars-relationship-with-leon-rose-adds-intrigue-to-rumor/#:~:text=From%20Berman%3A,Wesley%20is%20close%20to%20each.
2- Books' desire to still compete for a championship while also building his brand in what could be considered the biggest potential basketball market that has long been considered " the mecca of basketball" and would provide enormous publicity equal to that of LA, but already in much better position to contend with him than any of these current LA teams,
WHICH I'D NEVER TRADE HIM TO UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!! as I'd view that as being worse than when we sent Nash to LA. It's almost sacrilegious.
Now again, Nowhere in my posts will you find me saying that we "HAVE TO TRADE BOOKER" !! But again, rather based on recent discussions around here, that
IF Booker asks to be traded" (asks out) as a consequence of us trading KD, which I'm not at all opposed to (even though I love KDs' game and would like to see him retire here if possible). That the two most likely destinations for him (IF we allowed him to choose himself as a favor) would probably be New York or Detroit. And I mention Detroit obviously not under the premise of contention, but rather because he's a Detroit native, he gets along with Monty Williams, and Ishbia is also a Detroit native who still lives in Detroit, so he could still maintain that relationship with him, AND Booker could represent his hometown if he so wishes?
Now If everyone's issue with my suggestions were based upon returning value exchange, then I of course understand that you'll have differing perspectives on our returning value Booker could theoretically return. And with an open mind, I'd love to hear more about these more realistic outcomes and what makes them more plausible contextually. I'm just trying to be a little conservative on this valuation premise, and view a potential Booker trade premise through the other teams eyes objectively.
