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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
If you're talking about getting blue chip trade bait, sure. But replacing Love with Lee and Barnes is going to make your team worse on an already bad team in an increasingly competitive West. If I have a choice between taking David Lee to that enormous contract or being given a bunch of young first round prospects, I'd go with prospects every single time. You can take that $10M in cap savings next year and invest in someone who can actually make your team competitive again.
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prospects have value in sports like MLB and the NFL but it's literally a useless concept in the NBA. You aren't trading for a farm system in the NBA and you have to put fans in the seats to make money, and trading for prospects that will get blown out by 20 points a night in a market like Minnesota doesn't work. It may work in the MLB or in the NFL where the seats fill themselves no matter what. But in the NBA you almost have to try and field a competitive team.
Minnesota isn't the Knicks or the Lakers or a market where cap space matters, they're not getting a superstar to come there, ever, it's the sad truth. No different than a market like Utah or Washington or Milwaukee. They have to hope to either land a loyal guy like a Tim Duncan or Dirk to spend their career there, which is rare, or just overpay for good players. It doesn't matter what Minnesota "saves" because what are they saving for? 2016? and what player in 2016 is going to go there? Nobody. So they might as well spend, and spend to field an okay team.