Trade & Free Agency 2026/2027

[Jakeospikez]

What's the main benefit of trading Kyrie this offseason? Is it because people just fall in love with the current draft class and want to do what they can to get multiple players? He's not gonna net a lottery pick in this draft without some other weirdness. Is it really that bad to wait until the TDL or next offseason. Highly likely the Mavs draft a potential lead guard prospect, shouldn't that player get at least a season to play and practice with Kyrie to accelerate their growth and give them that once in a lifetime experience? Decent chance he improves his value coming off the acl injury since it's probably low right now. Inexperienced teams don't win, so any full series playoff experience a team gets is valuable. I don't think the roster is that far off from being able to win a playoff series and not just be eliminated in the playin. OKC is very young but in terms of playoff experience they're pretty much vets already.

As far as him being pg goes, there's lots of data here where he lead the team with Luka out or just the minutes while Luka was on the bench. He's had some monster games with Luka out and the offense pretty much always looked fine. The reason why he gets paired with other high usage creators is because he has maybe the deepest bag in the league and can take anyone 1 on 1. Using him as a facilitator to just take on double teams all the time is wasting his talent.

Anyway it's likely gonna be about what Kyrie wants. He's got the pull and connections to do whatever so if he wants to get traded somewhere they'll probably accommodate what he wants to do.