haha, I'm glad to hear you like my trades so much WW!
Hey, you're active and involved, definitely an asset to the league. I like having you onboard. But you also have an outside shot at having zero NBA starters - which is B-A-N-A-N-A-S - and still somehow made your team worse in this trade.
I can't agree with your perspective on this deal - that you have a bad team so can afford to make trades for poor returns.
Matt Bonner was a rotation worthy player last season, top 150, so was Nick Collison, top 200. Okay, Nate Robinson - although he had high spot start value - probably wasn't worth carrying. You dealt those guys for a mid-second rounder that you could've picked up off the waiver wire and the chance to add a player that won't help you next season.
There are better ways to lose, ask Blake or Roy
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Well, I'm always glad to hear other perspectives, especially yours. The way I see it though, I'm rebuilding, with three first rounders and a core of really young players, keeping Bonner and Collison for two years down the road didn't make much sense to me if I could trade them to contenders now for a pick and a young guy that may or may not work out, but since I'm waiting on the young guys I already have, I can certainly wait on Singler as well. I did put both guys on the block, and the offers I got where equivalent to what I dealt them for. I know I don't have many starters on my roster, but Bonner, Collison, and Nate were just adding to that problem.
Sure, my plan changed since I first took over the team, rebuilding wasn't my goal then, but I realized I wasn't going to be able to seriously contend with the core I had.