Trade & FA 2023-24: Stein-Ingram Trade Inevitable| LAL Want Lebron Back On Any Terms

[Dundalis]

It's the price of player that has to be considered.  We traded Porzingis for Dinwiddie and Bertans.  That was one of the most shocking trades in the NBA in the last 10 years.  It remains incredible that we got so little for Porzingis who was actually playing well for us when we dealt him.

Dinwiddie has been a useful player for a long time. He was just never near the level of Porzingis. The fact that we also ate the Bertans contract and gave up a 2nd-rounder made the entire deal pitiful.  

PJ Washington has the potential to revert to being a winning player.  He's been bad this season though.  2024 PJ Washington isn't worth a top-2 protected 2027 1st.  If we obtained him for our two 2nd-round picks, I'd like the deal.

The difference with PJ vs 2022 Dinwiddie though is age and upside. He's 3 years younger than Dinwiddie with clearly more upside than Dinwiddie's at the time he was traded for.

I also don't really have an issue with people saying it's risky, but you literally said you hate PJ Washington. It's like, that's a step above simply feeling like it might be too risky and not work out well, or even not really liking the trade.

Another thing people aren't mentioning when considering the assets given up for both PJ and Gafford is their value as assets in and of themselves moving forward. They aren't 30+ year olds on terrible contracts. Both these guys are fairly likely to at least maintain the value they were traded for, with the potential to increase in value when you consider their age and the situations they have been in, vs coming into. Even players that don't perform quite as expected, tend to have more trade value having been part of winning teams with playoff experience, vs players who've maybe put up better numbers on perennial losers. Like one or both could have great performances rest of the year and play well in the post season, and someone comes up in the off season we want, they will have plenty of value. What we gave up isn't value simply lost.