(02-06-2020, 06:19 PM)Baller AI Wrote: The Warriors signing DLO is a great example of how a value is in the eyes of the beholder, and the trade for Wiggins is them doing the same thing again. Would not surprise me if Wiggins gets traded for someone they actually want. In addition to wiggy, they also get draft picks because Minny wanted DLO so badly. They created value out of a player that essentially had no value to them, because others did want him. Lee's expiring could have brought in some sort of value, even if it was a player expiring next year and we end up benching him just to use him as a trade chip next TDL. Yes taking Lee on to get Porzi is a net gain, but to get the MAX gain you have to get somesort of value out of Lee, and he certainly has no value to us on the court. Same with the rest of the TE, yes we got some value from it, but we failed to maximize its value.The purpose of acquiring Lee was not as a trade asset. It was to get KP. That was the objective, and it was accomplished. If they had managed to use Lee in a trade for LeBron, that would have been dandy. But really, anything they got for him at all would have been gravy.
The restrictions applicable to TPEs make it difficult to use them down to the penny. They're not like cap space. The situation has to be just right.
DLO is not the same case as Courtney Lee. For whatever reason, other teams didn't want Courtney Lee or his contract. Sometimes, people just don't want to buy what you have to sell. Acquiring him was still a smart move, whether they ultimately squeezed the last drop of juice out of it or not. Trading him just for the sake of trading him would not necessarily have been a good thing. A bad move can be much worse than no move.