Is it worth trading the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft for Giannis?
The Kevin O'Connor Show discusses if it is worth trading the number one overall pick in the NBA Draft to acquire Giannis.
Video Transcript
I would not put the number one pick on the table for Giannis.
Would you?
No.
Like, so like what do you-- Look, so I've been trying to, like, think this through a little bit this morning, like, in my head when I was going for a run, and I was just like, "Okay, so why would they even consider this?"
And I think the thing that you learn, like, working in the NBA and understanding league circles and everything is that different ownership groups and different front office groups have different, priorities than what people from the outside do, and sometimes that can lead to illogical outcomes that are hard to parse from the public, right?
And I don't know, man, going from what was, like, a fairly fun young core that was being built in Washington and is still being built in Washington with Alex Sarr and Keishon George and Will Riley and Trey Johnson and, like, I really loved Will Riley at the end of the year this year, and obviously Keishon had a strong rookie season and, you know, moved that forward into his sophomore year.
Sarr got better this year.
Like, I can't imagine being like, "Hey, you know what's a good idea?
Let's trade for 30-plus-year-old Anthony Davis, 30-plus-year-old Giannis Antetokounmpo," you know, getting toward his 30s, Trae Young in a position where I think that the wear and tear of a player probably comes a little bit earlier than in their 30s, and just deciding to go all in with that core for, what?
Two years?
When the entirety of what Michael Winger and Will Dawkins have been doing up to this point is accumulating assets, accumulating fun young talent across the board to then maybe build something like what Oklahoma City has done, which is a nice self-sustaining ecosystem of talent.
