Team Tank 2022-23

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Kevin O'Connor reporting that Luka and Kyrie were both agitated when being asked to tank after the Hornets losses and played anyway.  Could honestly see that lead to Kyrie looking for the door right after he got here and Luka asking for a trade after this season because it will be hard to build a roster if Kyrie walks for nothing.

I hope I am wrong and that we can move into more of a "winning cures all" sort of season next year but I kept pointing out in this thread that everyone here seems to ignore the human element when it comes to tanking and there can be very severe repercussions from that.  These guys are all athletes and competitors, not pawns, and in the NBA, the talent has all the leverage all the time.  

I agree with the decision to tank once we lost those awful awful Hornets games and I do wish that the message was better received by the players than it is being reported, but it's very fair to point out that the decision has pros and cons from an asset management standpoint.

If that report is accurate, then the reason we do not have a 96% chance to retain our pick right is that we allowed a person, who is here for two months, to make strategic franchise decisions. LOL. These are the moments you wish we had Pat Riley and fantasize whether he´d stone Kyrie with his 11 rings or simply treats him like he does not exist, while he gives Luka a dressing down.

This would already be enough for me to S&T Kyrie in the summer and if we walks to Houston for free....good riddance.