Top 25 trade assets ranked by Anthony Davis contenders

[CelticsElite]

https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2019/05/top-25-assets-among-presumed-anthony-davis-contenders.html

[Ilikesports17]

Gilgeous-Alexander over the RJ Barrett? really?

[Pvictor11]

Kuzma ahead of Brown and Gallinari, Knox and Smith Jr ahead of Smart is tough to swallow.

[Tr1boy]

Gilgeous-Alexander over the RJ Barrett? really?

Barrett is still WIP in the shooting department, especially 3 pt shooting

Shai has a nice looking jump shot

[footey]

This list clearly favors Celtics, which is good, even though I feel it puts Smart and Brown too low, but also puts Ingram too low.

[IDreamCeltics]

Trading Jason Tatum for Anthony Davis would be akin to if the Warriors had traded Klay Thompson for Kevin Love... You just don't trade away young wings who can hit .40+ from 3 in todays NBA.

[liam]

Trading Jason Tatum for Anthony Davis would be akin to if the Warriors had traded Klay Thompson for Kevin Love... You just don't trade away young wings who can hit .40+ from 3 in todays NBA.

Davis is a waaaaay better player than Kevin Love.

[IDreamCeltics]

Trading Jason Tatum for Anthony Davis would be akin to if the Warriors had traded Klay Thompson for Kevin Love... You just don't trade away young wings who can hit .40+ from 3 in todays NBA.

Davis is a waaaaay better player than Kevin Love.

Naw, he's just he modern version of the 25 year old Kevin Love (the season before Love was traded). 

I like Anthony Davis by the way, but he's a lot closer to being the third best player on a contender than he is to being the 1st. 

[jpotter33]

Probably should’ve just stopped reading this after seeing who was at #2.

[RJ87]

Trading Jason Tatum for Anthony Davis would be akin to if the Warriors had traded Klay Thompson for Kevin Love... You just don't trade away young wings who can hit .40+ from 3 in todays NBA.

Jayson didn't hit 40% from three this year. That was last season. Given his lack of progress this year and the concerns about him coming into the season with the wrong mindset, I think you move him for an All-Star/All-NBA/All-Defensive talent before the sheen wears off.

[Big333223]

Trading Jason Tatum for Anthony Davis would be akin to if the Warriors had traded Klay Thompson for Kevin Love... You just don't trade away young wings who can hit .40+ from 3 in todays NBA.

Davis is a waaaaay better player than Kevin Love.

Naw, he's just he modern version of the 25 year old Kevin Love (the season before Love was traded). 

I like Anthony Davis by the way, but he's a lot closer to being the third best player on a contender than he is to being the 1st.

You're comparing a player who has made 3 All NBA 1st teams and has had 2 top 5 finishes in MVP voting to someone who made a pair of 2nd teams and never had a top 5 MVP season.

Only once did Love's team win more than 31 games and he never made the playoffs in Minnesota. Davis has made the playoffs twice, advancing out of the first round once.

Davis is a more skilled offensive player than Love ever was while also being an All NBA defender. Love was always a bad defender.

There's no comparison here. AD is a much, much better player than peak Love and I don't see any reason he couldn't be the best player on a champion.

And to get back on topic: Nice to see Tatum ranked #1.

[makaveli]

Probably should’ve just stopped reading this after seeing who was at #2.

i wanted to stop there, but then i stopped shortly after reading that SGA might have a higher ceiling than tatum

IMHO it is either us, or someone completely under the radar, something like when PG got traded to OKC, that was not on a single rumor ever

[IDreamCeltics]

Trading Jason Tatum for Anthony Davis would be akin to if the Warriors had traded Klay Thompson for Kevin Love... You just don't trade away young wings who can hit .40+ from 3 in todays NBA.

Davis is a waaaaay better player than Kevin Love.

Naw, he's just he modern version of the 25 year old Kevin Love (the season before Love was traded). 

I like Anthony Davis by the way, but he's a lot closer to being the third best player on a contender than he is to being the 1st.

You're comparing a player who has made 3 All NBA 1st teams and has had 2 top 5 finishes in MVP voting to someone who made a pair of 2nd teams and never had a top 5 MVP season.

Only once did Love's team win more than 31 games and he never made the playoffs in Minnesota. Davis has made the playoffs twice, advancing out of the first round once.

Davis is a more skilled offensive player than Love ever was while also being an All NBA defender. Love was always a bad defender.

There's no comparison here. AD is a much, much better player than peak Love and I don't see any reason he couldn't be the best player on a champion.

And to get back on topic: Nice to see Tatum ranked #1.

There's pretty clearly a comparison between Davis and Love.  You literally just made it - and it was fairly convincing.  If you want to bring in the 2019 version of Kevin Love, I don't blame you.  Most Celtics fans were dying to bring in Kevin Love when he was 25 too.  Both guys put up phenomenal numbers on terrible teams.  Both guys are talented. 

Here's the numbers:
Kevin Love age 25, 2013/2014 season
Pts     Reb    Ast    2p%  3p%  FT%   W/S  PER
26.1   12.5   4.4   .457  .376  .821    14.3  26.9   

Anthony Davis age 25 per/game Last season
Pts     Reb    Ast    2p%   3p%  FT%  W/S   PER
25.9   12.0   3.9  .547    .331   .794   9.5   30.3

Davis has spent the majority of his career on teams that couldn't sniff 40 wins... Guys who are bonafide superstars win games.  It's that simple. Great player - but definitely overrated and definitely not the best player on a contender.  I would NOT give up Tatum for him. 

Annnnd... It get's worse, he's a Rich Paul Client who's already shown his contract doesn't mean anything to him.  He just demanded a trade with 3 years left on his contract (1 year was a player option) and tanked the season for his team.  We just survived the Kyrie Irving drama... do we really need another overrated diva holding the team hostage? 

[Monkhouse]

Trading Jason Tatum for Anthony Davis would be akin to if the Warriors had traded Klay Thompson for Kevin Love... You just don't trade away young wings who can hit .40+ from 3 in todays NBA.

This guy just literally compared Anthony Davis to Kevin Love.

I'm dead.

[liam]

Trading Jason Tatum for Anthony Davis would be akin to if the Warriors had traded Klay Thompson for Kevin Love... You just don't trade away young wings who can hit .40+ from 3 in todays NBA.

Davis is a waaaaay better player than Kevin Love.

Naw, he's just he modern version of the 25 year old Kevin Love (the season before Love was traded). 

I like Anthony Davis by the way, but he's a lot closer to being the third best player on a contender than he is to being the 1st.

You're comparing a player who has made 3 All NBA 1st teams and has had 2 top 5 finishes in MVP voting to someone who made a pair of 2nd teams and never had a top 5 MVP season.

Only once did Love's team win more than 31 games and he never made the playoffs in Minnesota. Davis has made the playoffs twice, advancing out of the first round once.

Davis is a more skilled offensive player than Love ever was while also being an All NBA defender. Love was always a bad defender.

There's no comparison here. AD is a much, much better player than peak Love and I don't see any reason he couldn't be the best player on a champion.

And to get back on topic: Nice to see Tatum ranked #1.

There's pretty clearly a comparison between Davis and Love.  You literally just made it - and it was fairly convincing.  If you want to bring in the 2019 version of Kevin Love, I don't blame you.  Most Celtics fans were dying to bring in Kevin Love when he was 25 too.  Both guys put up phenomenal numbers on terrible teams.  Both guys are talented. 

Here's the numbers:
Kevin Love age 25, 2013/2014 season
Pts     Reb    Ast    2p%  3p%  FT%   W/S  PER
26.1   12.5   4.4   .457  .376  .821    14.3  26.9   

Anthony Davis age 25 per/game Last season
Pts     Reb    Ast    2p%   3p%  FT%  W/S   PER
25.9   12.0   3.9  .547    .331   .794   9.5   30.3

Davis has spent the majority of his career on teams that couldn't sniff 40 wins... Guys who are bonafide superstars win games.  It's that simple. Great player - but definitely overrated and definitely not the best player on a contender.  I would NOT give up Tatum for him. 

Annnnd... It get's worse, he's a Rich Paul Client who's already shown his contract doesn't mean anything to him.  He just demanded a trade with 3 years left on his contract (1 year was a player option) and tanked the season for his team.  We just survived the Kyrie Irving drama... do we really need another overrated diva holding the team hostage?

That's a good comparison if you forget that on the other side of the ball one of the players is like Kevin Garnett  on defense and one is like Isiah Thomas....