Max Kellerman

Just because someone can doesn't mean they should.

And I think the idea that they could just do it with Paul George and Kawhi, two two-way wings, defined roles, because you know Paul George is the Robin in that Batman and Robin.

It made a lot of sense.

Kawhi wanted him.

They needed a guy to handle the ball.

It goes for seven years.

Is it the most... Considering points of leverage on top of everything else...

pick swaps, picks, how bad one team wound up.

But for Paul George, the leverage for the move was that the thought was Kawhi would only do it if Paul George was there, right?

Yeah, but was that true?

Anyway.

I would not have, you know, I would have tested that theory.

Well... Easy for me to say sitting here now, but, you know.

Um, and I think it's worse bill.

That's the problem.

I think you got to move them now because there's... Look, you don't want to trade a guy when his trade value is low and you'd like to be the consolation prize afterward.

But I think they have to be resigned to the idea we have to target something we like, see if we can get that for AD, and if we can, we should do it independent of everything else.

Because there is the risk that AD...

makes a recovery to the point where he's still playing his normal 60, 60, 60, 65 games a year at a certain level.

But there's also a risk that given the physical stuff, given his age, that it gets worse.