Wilson Chandler is a flawed player who got pushed out of the rotation in Denver, Philly still took on his 13 million dollar contract. Lots of teams have cap space next season and a few of them will strike out, I think they'd love to add a 20 point scorer.O_Gardino wrote: ↑Fri Sep 21, 2018 6:11 amHis contract becomes a problem if he's the odd man out in our SF rotation, or if other teams believe he won't ever be a defender or shooter or stay healthy.Split T wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 7:51 pmI don't think that's the right way to look at it. Warren is better than Beverley or Teodosic and much younger. I'm not the biggest Warren fan and think we should look to move him, but I'm not moving him for 1 year of Beverley.O_Gardino wrote: ↑Thu Sep 20, 2018 6:36 pmLet me ask you this: is Warren better than Ariza? How much better than Ariza / Jackson / Bridges is he? My guess is that by the end of this season, we see that he's not that much better.
Beverly and Teodosic are much better than our young PGs right now, and next summer the cap space can be used to address actual needs.
And the cap space that we'd clear isn't a reason for the trade. We'd have no problem just dumping Warren for free. He's not a bad contract.
Is there a chance Warren gets hurt and the contract looks worse a year from now? Sure, but that's a risk you take with any player. Could he get pushed out of the rotation because he's just not very good? I don't buy this one. He may not be a multi skilled player, but he's a very good scorer and isn't just going to lose that.
I think it's more likely Warren develops an improved 3pt stroke, helping him to become an elite scorer while Beverley misses 3/4 of the season.
So a 25 year old, elite scoring combo forward on a 12 million a year contract for 17 games of Patrick Beverley. We'd be complaining about this awful trade a decade from now.