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TopicNBA Offseason/Regular Season Topic
Emeraldegg
11/18/20 6:07:11 PM
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davidponte posted...
Danny Green traded to Philly for Horford, a 1st and a 2nd.

I don't care how much cap relief you get, trading two picks for Green is absolute insanity. It's crazy how much draft picks are devalued in the NBA when in the NFL and especially the NHL they're worth a newborn son.

It's not so much that they're paying for green, it's taht they're paying to get rid of horford. It's been commonly understood that horford was such an albatross that philly would certainly have to part with assets to offload him somewhere. Given that the first is a lightly protected in 2025, I'd say the sixers got off quite easily honestly. Sixers were in such dire straits I'd have asked for TWO firsts.

As far as picks being devalued, I think part of that is because of how much of a crapshoot even outside the top 5 becomes once you hit that point. In the NFL, the gap between 2 and 5 is much smaller than it is in the NBA, where there's seemingly much less impactful talent than in the NFL. So teams are much more willing to part with them because the floor is much lower than in the NFL. In the NFL, a 20th overall pick is expected to be a relatively solid starter. In the NBA, you're lucky if such a player even cracks the rotation.
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