Even though I love the trade, I'm not ready to anoint Stevens as the new GM genius.
There's some evidence that this trade was close to taking place at the last trade deadline. Horford was being kept out of action. If true, then this move is not really Brad's but Danny's.
This trade can't possibly be the only significant move this off-season if the team is in "win now" mode. Let's see what Stevens' next move is.
Everybody knows there’s zero chance Danny would have swallowed his pride and admitted he made a mistake signing Kemba instead of making sure Horford got paid. Danny got rattled by losing Kyrie and panicked by throwing max money at the poor man’s version of Kyrie, who was just as bad on defense, not as good of a passer and not as good of a scorer (and somehow has worse knees than Kyrie, who has the second worst knees in the NBA). Kemba was a horrible fit for this team as we saw after losing key facilitator Gordon Hayward. It’s the primary reason why last season was a disaster after 3 of 5 trips to the ECF.
Horford was shutdown because OKC wanted to trade him. They could not do it at the deadline. Danny left and Brad saw an opportunity to fix a Danny mistake, so he took it.
Besides, everybody knows Danny would never give up pick sixteen when he could instead draft the next French Dancing Bear with it…
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