We’re Stuck Until 2028
Given that Jared McCain just had an insane performance, and every sports media page/outlet ever is talking about our bonehead decision to trade him for a bag of Doritos, it reminded me of our other notable trade we made, and that’s Harden to the Clippers. We have the Clippers 2028 unprotected FRP and a 2029 pick swap(top 3 protected). Now everyone knows that as long as Embiid & George’s massive contracts are on the team, we are not winning anytime soon. Now I’m not going to get into the logistics of trade ideas for any of these two, as that can be a whole other post and being that they might be the worst and second worst contracts in the league, I highly doubt anyone’s going to want to trade for them. Now the two most important things are we don’t trade any draft picks for the next two seasons, and something out of our control is the clippers need to be bad in 28 and 29, which is looking likely. I think for right now we are stuck with the team we have, so we should just go out there and do our best. At the end of the 28-29 season we could potentially build a contender as we could potentially have two lottery picks on our team, embiid and George’s contract would be up, so we’d have money to sign depth, and we could even sign Embiid to a vet minimum to be a mentor for the young guys, if he’s still playing by then. Overall things look bright for the future, but right now we are just stuck.