Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[Mavs2021]

That Detroit trade is baaaaad.

This idea that 34 is old in the NBA is nonsense. This isn't the 80's. Star players, especially those who keep themselves in good shape, like Kyrie, play til their late 30s.

And, as I've said before, major injuries just aren't that big of a deal anymore. Now if he was constantly injury prone like AD, that would be one thing. But Kyrie is a gamer.

Fat, older James Harden has repeatedly fetched good players and picks. I think we'll all be surprised by what he nets, especially with Masai negotiating.

Teams were at least the 2nd best player was 34/35 years or older.

ChatGPT says:

2022 Warriors
2020 Lakers (with a three months rest period and a bubble, so obviously highly questionable)
2014 Spurs  (questionable whether Duncan was still top 2 and how fast we getting Kawhi, Parker and Ginobili through the door)
1998 Bulls
1987 Lakers

So exclude the bubble and it happens roughly once a decade.

It´s not just about putting up stats, it´s about not giving them away on the other end. 

I´d say you do very well, if you get two 1sts for him, but that´s more out of the final piece to the puzzle desperation by some teams than the actual trade value. In most cases the team trading for the old guy like Durant, CP3, Beal, DeRozan, PG13 or Harden is losing the trade, because they were simply overvalued. Not our problem in that case obviously.