Think about the nightmare scenarios about this trade. The Nets pick turning into Ayton, Bagley, or Doncic. IT gelling with Lebron and leading the Cavs to a title. Crowder shutting down the Celtic wings in the playoffs. Zizic developing into solid big.
Of course none of that happened and everything blew up in the Cavs faces. The Cavs HAD to get back at least one allstar level player and it looks like they got none. Maybe a couple solid players and some garbage.
The trade is an easy A and a A++++ if you sign Kyrie. You got a legitimate star and top 20 player in the league for a bunch of meh. Yes, it sucked Kyrie got hurt and cost the Celtics a trip to the finals. But when you look what they ended up trading for him it is ridiculous.
The trade was always an A because the Celtics got the best player in the deal. The draft is a crapshoot. Nothing is guaranteed. The Celtics got the best player in the deal. Thats called winning a trade.
So then Brooklyn won the trade with us in 2013?
It’s not so black and white. Future picks need to be sorted out.
If you look at what we were in 2017 and got smoked, to almost pulling it out against the, without Kyrie (and Hayward, and Theis) to now the Cavs having to blow it up while we prepare to take the reigns of the East.
The trade signaled the end of the Cavs as we knew them, and tonight was an emphatic exclamation point on what that trade did to Cleveland.