Alex Speers

Yeah.

They could get through this entire period of darkness where they're not going to own their pick, and he'll be like 23 or 24, which is about the age that Shea was when they started adding young players to the Thunder.

So maybe it could work.

Maybe you could be competitive for a couple seasons with AD and Kyrie when he comes back, and then you reset when Cooper is 23 or 24.

Yeah.

It's...

As bad as things have been in Dallas, the fact that he is 18 and scoring 40 points in an NBA game, it really does open the possibilities where in some ways you can't do too much wrong right now.

I was kind of against the idea of them keeping this team together, but the more I thought about it, I'm like, I guess it's not the worst thing in the world if they were competitive for the next couple of years just because he is so young.

But they're just not even competitive though.

Oh, really, Andrew?

They just beat the Pistons.

I'm aware of that.

I mean, if they got, and they will, get Kyrie back and have AD going into next season, why can't they be six, seven in the West?

That would shock me.

Yeah.

Whatever this was for isn't happening anyways.

And if you are trading AD, you're really giving up on that because I really do think there could still be some upside, not like championship upside with this team if they were all healthy, but like a good Western Conference team.

If you trade AD right now,

The package better be really good, or why bother?

Yeah.