Pacers & Kings Complete 6 Player Trade

[Moranis]

19/12/5 with eFG% of 61 and a TS% of 64.9.  25 years old, multiple time all star.  Shoots enough from outside to keep teams honest.

Sabonis is BY FAR the best player in that trade, at least right now.  Maybe Haliburton some day passes him up, but it isn't right now and it won't be next year either.

He is - but the poster a few above makes a good point: Sacramento have had precisely zero Top 10 guys in the 400 years. Maybe like Chris Weber in the early 00s

since they moved to Sacramento that is probably correct, before that they had several in KC and Cincinnati that said the odds of Haliburton reaching that level are miniscule so why not get the vastly superior player this season who is 25 and has years ahead of him in his prime.  A guy who you don't have 2 other very good players in the same position also signed long term. 

[todd_days_41]

19/12/5 with eFG% of 61 and a TS% of 64.9.  25 years old, multiple time all star.  Shoots enough from outside to keep teams honest.

Sabonis is BY FAR the best player in that trade, at least right now.  Maybe Haliburton some day passes him up, but it isn't right now and it won't be next year either.

He is - but the poster a few above makes a good point: Sacramento have had precisely zero Top 10 guys in the 400 years. Maybe like Chris Weber in the early 00s

since they moved to Sacramento that is probably correct, before that they had several in KC and Cincinnati that said the odds of Haliburton reaching that level are miniscule so why not get the vastly superior player this season who is 25 and has years ahead of him in his prime.  A guy who you don't have 2 other very good players in the same position also signed long term.

The odds of Haliburton being a star player -- or at the very least, a better player than Sabonis, in a guard dominated league -- are "minuscule"? And why should they play for this season? What are they winning? You don't get it.

Total head scratcher trade for SAC. Among other things, the idiots made a "trade now' move for Sabonis, and in the process traded away their two best NBA shooters. Smaaaaaaart.

[Celtics4ever]

The odds of Haliburton being a star player -- or at the very least, a better player than Sabonis, in a guard dominated league -- are "minuscule"?

Either of these would have helped us as a third star and they both make their team mates better.

[Big333223]

I imagine the Kings were looking at Haliburton and Fox and figured they couldn't play the two of them together. Maybe they wanted to keep Haliburton but when they gauged interest in Fox around the league, they found no market.

The NBA is lousy with point guards and especially so with score-first pg's. A score first pg who doesn't play particularly good defense and has no 3 point shot? It wouldn't surprise me if they couldn't get what they thought was fair value for Fox so, having decided one of the two should be traded, they decided to trade Haliburton.

And they got an all star big man in the deal.

[liam]

I imagine the Kings were looking at Haliburton and Fox and figured they couldn't play the two of them together. Maybe they wanted to keep Haliburton but when they gauged interest in Fox around the league, they found no market.

The NBA is lousy with point guards and especially so with score-first pg's. A score first pg who doesn't play particularly good defense and has no 3 point shot? It wouldn't surprise me if they couldn't get what they thought was fair value for Fox so, having decided one of the two should be traded, they decided to trade Haliburton.

And they got an all star big man in the deal.

That sounds right but it's The Kings so one never knows.

[Moranis]

19/12/5 with eFG% of 61 and a TS% of 64.9.  25 years old, multiple time all star.  Shoots enough from outside to keep teams honest.

Sabonis is BY FAR the best player in that trade, at least right now.  Maybe Haliburton some day passes him up, but it isn't right now and it won't be next year either.

He is - but the poster a few above makes a good point: Sacramento have had precisely zero Top 10 guys in the 400 years. Maybe like Chris Weber in the early 00s

since they moved to Sacramento that is probably correct, before that they had several in KC and Cincinnati that said the odds of Haliburton reaching that level are miniscule so why not get the vastly superior player this season who is 25 and has years ahead of him in his prime.  A guy who you don't have 2 other very good players in the same position also signed long term.

The odds of Haliburton being a star player -- or at the very least, a better player than Sabonis, in a guard dominated league -- are "minuscule"? And why should they play for this season? What are they winning? You don't get it.

Total head scratcher trade for SAC. Among other things, the idiots made a "trade now' move for Sabonis, and in the process traded away their two best NBA shooters. Smaaaaaaart.

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