So question with the obstacles of trading Zach and Vuc this year with the new cba would you rather just give up our pick this year tho a talented upper draft if we can luck into it and not have to worry and have a better chance of unloading talent for the 2026 NBA draft with the prize of AJ Dybantsa ( prob would be number 1 in the 25 draft ) and the Boozer twins and Alijah Arenas; or just keep trying to keep our pick?
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Both.
I’m voting Harper/Dybantsa next election.
Trade everyone now. The most valuable thing we can get back on any trade is losing to make our pick better. Keeping Zach and Vuc in an effort to “maximize value” only hurts our pick for this year. Nothing matters except bottoming out for multiple years to land a superstar at the top of the draft.
You need a top 10 franchise player to contend. Worth blowing it all up and praying to pick such a talent and if they don’t keep tanking till we do. Rose made us contenders and the era and atmosphere while short lived was fucken worth it so rid this pain of being mid and blow it up to try and contend
Trade as much now and keep the pick then tank hard next year/bottom out. You’ll have a core of Matas Ayo 25 and 26 picks and then you should have clean books minus Ayo’s new deal and you sign n slowly build your way back. That has to be the only plan. My guess is bottoming out nets you a top 5 pick in 26 and a top 7/8 pick in 27 then they will be big FA players or potentially trade for someone since that spurs pick that’s owed will turn into a second after 2027. Meaning they’d have all their future draft capital plus 3 top picks and Matas and Ayo
Problem is they flattened out the lottery odds a lot so being one of the worst teams isn’t the advantage it used to be.
The best you can do is keep the pick. We don’t have control of the odds. But the next three draft are deep ones. Top 8 are bonafide starters. Top 3 has legit star upside. That’s why you need to keep the picks owed to the Spurs.