Owning My Nico Support & Gump Was Right

[mvossman]

Trade the only playmaker on the team for a big men was way over than stupid or even a fantastic example of hubris and ego being your downfall.

I still doubt that he made that move without talk to the coach.

Maybe not now, maybe not next year but trust me, we will know what really happened and WHO were all the people involved. It' will not be good for the league.

The league had nothing to with it.  These conspiracy issues need to end.  As bad as that trade was, this team was too good to be in the lottery at the time of the trade.  It took another terrible trade and catastrophic injuries to keep the team out of the playoffs and they were still one win away.  There was nothing in the team's behavior that remotely suggested they were trying to get into the lottery.  

You would have to believe that the league cooked up this elaborate scheme to get Luka to the Lakers, had Nico make the dumbest trade in NBA history in the middle of the night, that Nico lead a masterful tank job that nobody could see including getting most of his best players injured, that the league was then going to rig the lottery to give Nico the number 1 pick on less than 2% odds, and that the league was then going to trust a man who just got fired and is now considered the worst NBA executive ever was not going to tell anybody what happened based on some NDA signed.  Do you not see how unlikely that scenario is?