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Mike Shearer's avatar

I love this trade for everyone involved. Rare to see a win-win-win. Boston gets the financial relief they needed without paying for it (heck, they might even get some use out of Niang!), Atlanta gets a low-risk, high-reward swing and loses a bad contract, and Brooklyn buys another first-rounder.

It's a bummer to lose a talented player in KP, but this was as graceful a way to do it as exists

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Tim K's avatar

I don’t think Boston has any intentions of trading Brown, White or Pritchard. If they did, would have made sense to do that before KP and Holiday. Still, if someone blows their socks off, have to consider. But odds of that seem relatively low. I think tonight will chart the course. If Boston pulls a couple draft night trades and moves up to snag promising rookies, they’ll go into a sort of soft tank mode. Play the youngsters a lot. Find a way for Brown and White to only appear in about 50 games tops. Turn their own pick into a top 10 next year and hope for some lottery luck. Regroup in ‘26 when Tatum is back at full strength. But if they’re stuck at 28 and hold onto Simons, Hauser, etc., maybe more likely to stay the course. See what Simons can do and how Walsh, Scheierman develop.

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