hateslosing wrote:
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And the risk to keeping him now and moving him later is that it becomes that much more difficult to trade him. It's a lot easier to trade a 25 year old player who just scored 21 ppg for the season making $8 million who might still have some potential than a 27 year player who it's becoming clear is a bench player and is making $10 million. His value peaked last summer, before he was fully exposed, as he was this year. Just think how many fans he lost this season. His value went down despite his scoring going up. And value certainly isn't going to go up as he gets older.
The safest thing for the team is to trade him this summer and let another team have to deal with how on earth to use him effectively. After 5 years, I think it's clear he'll never "put it all together". Quite frankly, I never thought he ever had the tools to become an elite player.
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