01-26-2026, 02:43 PM
(01-26-2026, 02:26 PM)mvossman Wrote: If your outlook is really 5-7 years (I think its possible to be a lot sooner than that) then shouldn't the focus be maximizing your assets now? Wouldn't it also be crazy to spend a massive tax bill and maintain repeater status for even larger bills in the future? That is basically where I am at, maximizing assets while getting out of the tax. I don't know if the goal is to avoid tax, but it will have to be eventually due to repeater penalties, so better now than closer to your outlook window.
We don't have a GM. I don't care about the tax bill, especially if that's being leveraged against me in negotiations (Dumont could think differently of course). I think those two factors work against maximizing our assets. I'm not opposed to making trades now, but I also don't have urgency to do it either. If the right deal is there, take it, but don't make trades just to make trades. I'm perfectly fine going into next season with the current roster. I do think we'll eventually trade AD, Gafford, Nanji, PJ and Kyrie (possibly others, but those are the ones that I think can return valuable assets).
My 5-7 outlook is putting together a championship team, but I do think we'll be a playoff team prior. That timing let's some of the power players in the west figure themselves out.