I’m liking this trade idea more and more, but something else I’ve been thinking is if the Grizzlies pick is necessary to include as that pick could be gold in a potential great draft at the top.
If Tatum is our prime trade chip that trumps other teams best single trade chip (Knicks getting 1st or 2nd pick will have at the very least similar value) maybe we can hold onto that Grizzlies pick.
Let’s compare directly to Lakers offer that was thrown out there.
Tatum beats out Ingram.
Starter Rozier just might be better than Ball now, although Ball still has the higher upside.
Williams verses Kuzma. Kuzma is polarizing. He averages almost 20 a game, but is almost 25 seems like a chucker shooting 30% from 3 and doesn’t provide much defense. How much does he really add to winning? Williams on the other hand has tantalizing Clint Capella talent maybe more at 21 in an area that really impacts winning.
The Lakers 2 number 1 picks (including this year) probably hold very similar value to the Kings and Clippers pick (at this moment remaining end of season and ping pong balls could change things).
In the end with these 2 trade packages you probably take the Celtics because of Tatum.
The Grizzlies pick might be viewed as the 2nd best asset out of everything listed here if you included it.
If you look at the KG trade even though 31 at the time still a top 5 player, but he also had 1 year left on his contract. Al Jefferson was the golden piece of that trade (to compare Tatum probably trumps Al as well). The rest was just kind of blah Gomes, Telfair, Green, Ratliff (salary filler), 2 future firsts (think they were both our own picks but could be wrong). You could argue Rozier (starter Rozier that is lol) is better than anything after Jefferson in that trade.