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I'm curious if Golden State truly wasn't interested in Siakam. I'm assuming Kuminga + picks/moody maybe? Would've been a far better trade than this for both teams.
Kuminga on the Raptors would have been awesome! And I'd rather have GSW's picks than Indy's. Things seem so bleak for the Warriors right now, with the latest being Assistant Coach Dejan Milojević dieing shortly after being hospitalized during a team dinner that maybe they were focused on bigger things or maybe they're exercising caution given how tough their situation looks
My guess is Siakam gave some indication to Warriors that he wouldn't re-sign unless they got their shit together, which seems unlikely to happen. Pacers already have their shit together, so I could see him as expressing a desire to re-sign if he were to get traded there, which probably facilitated the Pacers FO being willing to trade.
The returns for Raptors SUCK. Bruce Brown and a couple of trash picks for Pascal, a top 5 PF in this league? (Pascal is signing the 5 year deal from Pacers come off season because this is his last big contract so he's staying!) A return of 2024 picks are horrid. 2026 pick from Indy will be in the 20s at best too because Pacers will be better in 2 years' time. We should have gotten at least a decent young player. Bruce Brown is a short non-athletic SG/SF vet who can't shoot the 3 (32.7% this year) and can't defend. Raptors got robbed.
The picks aren’t great for sure but in what world is Bruce Brown a bad defender? He’s one of the more versatile defenders in this league and an amazing glue guy.
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2024
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