Howard Beck
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I'm not saying do it just for the sake of getting anybody.
But if you can get good players to put around Steph and, for the present, Draymond Still,
If you can do that by spending some of your draft capital and or some of those young players, do it.
Do it.
Do whatever you got to do to make the last years of Steph Curry's career viable and relevant.
Do not relegate him to annual play in games and or first round and out.
Give him a fighting chance.
That's your obligation.
They made two finals and won a championship with him, right?
With an aging Duncan and an aging Parker and Ginobili, right?
So, like, they kind of did it.
But as is usually the case, they kind of fell into it, right?
At the moment that they traded George Hill for the draft rights to Kawhi Leonard, the 15th pick in the draft, they didn't know Kawhi was going to become what he became.
So you can't plan for this stuff.
A lot of it's just fucking happenstance.
No, I was just going to say, listen, we're all fans of the game, right?
We don't care about, we don't have an emotional investment in the wins and losses of individual teams or anything else.
But I think everybody who loves this game, who loves the NBA, you want to see the all-time greats be able to, one, age gracefully and then have their teams be competitive around them, right?
At a minimum, right?
No one's winning championships in this league usually at age 37, 38, 40, 41 in LeBron's case.