Fred Katz

And is there any move that you could possibly make in which your ceiling wouldn't be winning the East and losing to the Thunder in the finals?

And if that's the case, will that affect how you act?

I think teams are just asking themselves that question right now.

Certain teams are, ones who I've spoken to certainly are.

It's reminiscent to a degree of when KD was on the Warriors and there were teams who were like,

We're just going to wait this thing out.

The big difference is that the KD Warriors thing, you know, KD went there and free agency signed a one year deal.

He resigned one year deal.

He resigned one year deal.

Then he was gone.

There was always like a sort of lingering question of like, how long will KD really do?

There was a shot clock on the whole thing.

Right.

Yeah, exactly.

And so you could wait it out.

Whereas here, I think you could actually flip this argument over and say, oh yeah, the Thunder are easily the best team in the league right now.

However,

They have the Clippers unprotected first round pick this year.

And they might have Utah's first rounder if Utah ends up not in the top eight.

And they might have Philly's, probably will have Philly's first rounder.