Fred Katz

You don't want to be in the tax and that team, you're going to have an objective to try to get out of the tax.

You want to try and find ways to get out of the CACs, but it's really hard to make trades in season right now.

And so I think it's going to be really difficult for them to be able to do anything consequential with this roster in season.

If anything big happens, I think the most likely scenario is it happens in the offseason.

I feel kind of the same way about Giannis right now.

I feel the same way about a lot of these big names.

It's just going to be really hard to get a lot of these deals done just to pull them off from a math perspective.

It is really hard to make trades in the NBA right now.

I don't know, but I do know that I've spoken to people in the league who are kind of asking themselves that question right now.

Are the Thunder so good that it's not really worth going all in with what we have right now?

Because it won't make a difference in terms of winning a title.

If our...

If you're Denver and you're sealing... And I'm just using Denver as an example because they're awesome.

If you're Denver and you feel like, you know what, this team is awesome, but the ceiling is Western Conference Finals, is there any move you can make that can make you feel like the ceiling isn't the Western Conference Finals?

If you're the Knicks, who we just talked about, is there...

you know, they don't have a lot to give up.

They've got a first round pick swap and they got a surplus of second rounders and that's it.

They can't trade any first rounders.

That's it.

But would you give up all that you can have if you feel like your ceiling is winning the East and losing to the Thunder in the finals?