Wait wait wait. I mean we obviously got a young superstar but if that pick turns top 2 we would've lost this trade, we gave a PG that's arguably better than him right now to a win now team and a potential franchise cornerstone to build around. Lakers fans are going crazy laughing at us rn, let's hold our optimism in for a while.
I said in another thread that I heard on ESPN or CNS that the Cavs said they would do the deal if ONE of:
Tatum
Brown
2018 Nets pick
Lakers pick
was included.
So Danny valued the Nets pick the least.
Makes sense. Even though Nets suck, the East sucks really bad. and the Lakers are in a BRUTAL Western Conference.
I guess he figures he's replaced the Nets pick with a better lottery pick in the Lakers pick.
We'd have to hope that if that Nets pick is a top 2 or 3 pick that the player we draft is better than Kyrie Irving in his prime.
Because that's who we just got. A 25 year old that has won a championship as a top 2 player and averaged 28 ppg and 5 assists over 2 finals series and 12 finals games.
He's arguably still 2-3 years away from his prime, coming to play for a better coach and our team that has gotten younger, bigger, stronger and better.
We have every reason to be smiling from ear to ear mate