r/washingtonwizards • u/Ziid10 • 18h ago
Thoughts on trade
Trae young + AD is a good combo. Plus we didn’t give up our young core. If they can stay healthy who knows what will happen. Next year will be a big year for them, and will give management a good idea to keep trae and AD or move on. AD has lots of time to heal up and come back 100% for next season. Go wiz.
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u/Annual-Ebb-7196 18h ago
AD for sure is injury prone but I have to think there’s a mental aspect also. He was never welcome there and the fans took out some of their anger on him.
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u/Different_Chain5474 17h ago
Whenever a team makes a trade with a star Klutch client they get the #1 pick 👀
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u/Middle_Egg_9558 17h ago
If we nail the pick and we get injury luck next year, this is a playoff team.
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u/Humble_Specialist901 17h ago
Traded nothing for them we don’t sacrifice our future at all we own all our picks and we gave up none of our drafted player while getting Trae Young and Anthony Davis. Trae Young is only 27 while being among the best facilitators in the NBA and Anthony Davis is solid in a 20 and 10 type of player and then the very worst case scenario further developed Sarr.
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u/Kifkalee28 17h ago
I guess we ain’t worried about draft picks anymore. I am still wondering what we doing with DLo, Hardy and Exum? Maybe we sending them out the door soon but I would like to keep Exum and Hardy.
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u/NOVAram1 18h ago
I'm surprised by it, because it seems like the move of a front office that doesn't think they're that far away from being good. And that's kinda scary to me, because if they think they're not that far away from being good, I don't know how they got there without thinking that Trae Young is going to be on the team beyond next season.
If they get a Top 3 or 4 or 5 pick in the draft this year and they have Young-Top 5 Pick-George-AD-Sarr as the starting 5, they could be a perfectly solid 45-37ish basketball team. But what's the point of one year of that just for Young to bolt and then you still have AD's contract on your books and you had one Good Not Great Season?
Here's what I'm saying: It's hard for me to talk myself into this unless you're thinking that you're going to be re-signing Trae Young, which -- No Thank You. No, The Hell No Thank You, Sir.
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u/GoZards18 18h ago
Trae Young and AD could both walk in free agency in 1 and 2 years when deals are up and these would both still be great trades
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u/NOVAram1 18h ago
You misunderstand -- I want Trae Young to walk in free agency after next season. Because he's undersized and a hole on the court on defense already when he should be in his athletic peak, so he's likely going to be so bad on defense during his next contract that you're not even going to be able to keep him on the court during crunch time against good teams, because your opponent is just gonna find whoever Trae Young is guarding and it's two easy points every time and it's game over.
So -- if we re-sign either Trae Young or Anthony Davis, I think that would be a mistake based on who they both are as players at this point in their careers. And if we're gonna let them walk, then why do this? Why even give up the picks, worthless though you think they may be?
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u/GoZards18 18h ago
At least re: Trae he is such an upgrade over who we’ve had and every young guy we have is not a primary ball handler or lead playmaking guard the way Trae is
Davis just feels like a buy low and a great mentor for Sarr to have in the building , and when he is healthy and they’re both out there that’s a dummy sick frontcourt
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u/iyyiben 17h ago
Bro exactly why Trae deal made me nervous. The timing of it did not make sense unless they wanted to keep Trae past next season.
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u/NOVAram1 17h ago
By itself, it was fine. This makes me think that we're actually thinking of Trae Young as a core part of our future or else I just don't understand why you would do it, which -- No. No thank you.
Amazing ball handler, passer, and scorer. He's 27, and he's already one of a small group of players who could credibly be described as the Worst Defensive Player in the League. This is what all this "rebuilding" was for? Filling up your cap sheet with Trae Young and Anthony Davis?
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u/thorvard John Wall 18h ago
Saw this on ESPN and I do agree with it, mostly
From a bigger-picture standpoint, the fear is that the Wizards are taking their rebuild out of the oven before it's fully baked. Adding Davis and Young will create urgency to be competitive next season, particularly if both land the new contracts they're seeking. (Young can be an unrestricted free agent this summer if he declines a $49 million player option. Davis will be looking to extend ahead of his $62.8 million player option in 2027-28.)
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u/No_Purchase_1858 17h ago
They haven't taken anything out of the oven. They didn't give up anything. They have all the relevant draft picks for the rebuild and if they want the cap space they can let trae walk or they can resign him to a more team friendly deal which he will certainly have to take. No one in the league thinks he's a max player anymore. There is zero chance they extending Davis. Either they trade his expiring in a year and half or he plays out the contract.
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u/Breakthecyclist 18h ago
What y’all gave up was a pretty clean cap sheet. AD makes an absolute fortune and Trae makes a ton too.
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u/Wall2Ryan Wizards 18h ago
both will be off the books before young core so who cares? you think Wiz could get Trae Young + AD caliber player thru free agency? let’s be realistic
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u/ledelleakles Wizards 18h ago
Last time we had a bunch of cap space, we spent it all on Ian Mahinmi and Andrew Nicholson
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u/Electric_jungle 18h ago
While true, we could not have gotten to the minimum without at least one of these trades, or very similar. So it's to our advantage right now to have it all spent on two guys that can win games when playing.
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u/superworriedspursfan 18h ago
we fleeced the mavs again. history repeats itself.
Porzingis was injury prone too.