The correct argument - Chip - is "why would you want Porzingis here at the salary we'd have needed to give him and the ? surrounding all aspects of his overall package?"
And the only proper comeback would be that we could/should have shopped him around or at a different time.
I have my doubts about the talking points of both sides.
Clearly, things came to a head.
Why don't we leave WHAT IF to a more gifted practitioner such as LesterDawg.
What we do know is our "assets" from the KP trade were cap space, Dennis Smith and two mid-to-late first rounders.
Remains to be seen if KP's current knee problems are a harbinger of future decrepitude or simply a blip on the radar screen. He had been playing quite well.
And again, given your sense that patience would've produced better returns?
Well, given the alacrity with which this deal went down, one might presume that Perry and Mills had been exploring back channels for quite some time. And that given Cuban's anointment of Doncic, and the franchise's spiritual connection to Dirk, that KP represented a pretty valid roll of the dice as Dirk 2.1
Will KP blow up in Cuban's face?
Stay tuned.
Meanwhile...
Post-Operative Timmy has come around nicely.
Courtney Lee is an expiring contract.
While on our side of the ledger?
Wes Matthews is a starter for Milwaukee.
Deandre is a key rotational player for the Nyets.
Dennis has been a disaster.
Julius and Marcus have been solid statistical free agent additions with moneys saved from KP and Courtney and Timmy and (and...wait for it, wait for it...coming right at you...ENES), while we jettisoned all of Fizdale's "projects" in favor of Bullock and Taj and Eldfird and Ellington with remaining cap space on the short term.
Let's see how many games Porzingis logs come April, and if he is part of a playoff push.
As for our Knicks, and the ongoing drum circle calling for Randle and/or Morris to be cashiered, well....
The real question is...
Do we want Perry and Mills making such decisions, or do we wait for yet another re-boot come April and the possibility of another James Dolan Savior?
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