[Fred Katz] The Knicks will acquire a 2028 and a 2029 second-round pick in exchange for Obi Toppin, a league source tells The Athletic.
The Knicks will acquire a 2028 and a 2029 second-round pick in exchange for Obi Toppin, a league source tells The Athletic.
— Fred Katz (@FredKatz) July 7, 2023
by ReturnOfAKidNamedTae
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Which ones damnit
Can they at least throw in a bag of chips
Where’s the guy who told me obi should play 30min a night 🤣
I can’t find where I saw it earlier, but I believe the 2028 was the worst of the Pacers and Suns and the 2029 is the worst of the Pacers and Wizards.
Sure it’s better than nothing, but that’s real shitty.
Before anyone gets mad
Pacers traded their 13th pick Chris Durante for 2 2nds as wells
While it’s a worse pick, shit happens, u can’t draft a hitter all the time. But we have been bad at drafting overall
Surprised teams weren’t offering real assets for Obi “Soon to be star” Toppin
He’s going to be very good in Indy.
people complaining about this not being a great return for Obi are ignoring g the value we already extracted out of him and his rookie scale deal
Why this is fucked
– a late second round pick is essentially worth cash and Knicks can buy one any season
– these will be late bc it’s a worst of 2 teams scenario
– obi was a lottery pick that has shown rotation piece (minimum) potential and was criminally under developed
– most importantly we really we need a back up power forward who is cheap and serviceable- which we had in obi – Randle is coming off ankle
Surgery and has played a historic number of minutes last 3 seasons…
In summary: we traded away what we needed for something of little to no value
sick
Didn’t think they were that far out
Rose sucks at managing assets. Gives up a first for Cam Reddish. Gets 2 2nds half a decade from now for Obi. Gives up firsts to unload contracts he signed 1 year previously. Whatever Dolan is paying him, half of that should be going to his godson who is actively saving his career.
front office sucks
Jesus that’s upsetting
I know there was salary cap implications for the DiVencenzo signing but I really would have liked to have gotten Duarte back instead because he’s at least a big wing who can shoot the 3 and he’s under his rookie contract for another year. The guy was a very good rookie (much better than Obi) but things went sideways last year,
Too late now though.
This was such a shit trade and everyone insinuating that’s the best we could get should never be able to have a basketball opinion again
I thought he was worth no more than a halal lunch in midtown so props to the front office for getting more
Obi gonna make us regret picking Randle over him isn’t he?
I feel like a lot of people are equating obi’s value with the trade asset return. Important to remember the FO has their own value system.
They obviously heavily value the cap space vacated by trading obi away. If the next move successfully takes advantage of that, this trade will look great.
And honestly I don’t think obi maxes out as a good role player anyway
https://streamable.com/s38s5l
🤣 why bother keeping these picks if we don’t develop them? You wonder why other GMs are trying to take advantage of us with the way we value these 1st round picks.
What a fucking joke
Dog shit trade omfg.
We’ll all be dead by then
2028?!?!?! But I don’t plan to live that long!!!
Pathetic. Leon sucks at trades