quite tired and not ready to do a whole write up but some of my reactions to some of the other deals that have been made

Butler to GSW: ehhhh yeah. i get why GSW did it and i would’ve probably said Miami should’ve gotten more back but in reality it seemed like the options in the marketplace were just not very good to begin with. so im not too critical of anything here. getting at least one FRP, even if its not very high, in this class is a kind of a big deal, especially since they didn’t own theirs. don’t necessarily think either team is much better or much worse.

Ingram to TOR: the really big thing here is so far i can’t verify which first round pick New Orleans got back. from the preliminary reports it sounds like it’s just the Raptors 2025 first rounder straight up? i think??? but i kinda wanna get clarification on that because that’s a HUGE detail. that pick is worth actual gold to NOP if they were able to get it with no protections. for TOR its weird cuz they’re a weird team just from the ground up idek what the team’s core principles are right now but we’ll see. if it turns out they did give up that FRP probably a bad decision

Mark Williams to LAL: i actually love this for the Lakers and don’t really love it for the Hornets. there’s some small merit to this trade from the Charlotte side but it’s just not really consistent with anything else they’ve been doing. like… i personally thought they were just past the “indiscriminately gather talent with little regard to fit” phase of rebuilding, especially in the backcourt. even if we say they’re not past that phase, i mean… Mark is younger than Knecht, and it’s just a MASSIVE hole at the 5 spot now. and idrk what the long term plan for that is. so some merit but… dawg you need a center lol. and the Hornets have led the league in PnR volume for like 2 years now bruh!! i just don’t really know why this trade had to happen for them. it could still work out potentially cuz Knecht can be good for sure but you get me