Two 2nd-Round Picks & A Fax Machine

Compliments Of The New Year 🥳To You All! We Pray You Transitioned Well Into 2021, Unlike The 2020 NBA Finalist Denver Nuggets; Featured On Episode 10 Of Our TradeNBA Fantasy Trade Podcast Series; After A Relatively Slow Start To The 2021 Season, Based Off Their Finish Last Season, The Nuggets Are Now Looking Like A Team That Has Been Too Reactive In The Market For Talent, As Joker, Jamal & Porter Jr. Remain The Only Long-Term Talent That Has Justified A Rated Return On Investment, Or Showcased The Ability To Be Trusted Whenever Denver Do Reach The Finals Again. Denver Have A Transcendent Big-Man Like Nikola Jokic, A Potential Perennial All-Star Guard In Jamal Murray, And A Rapidly Rising Young Superstar In Michael Porter Jr., Yet They Are Still A Few Pieces Away From Where They Would Like To Be In The Seasons To Come.

Timestamps To Be Added Soon, Askies Tog!

The New York Knickerbockers Have Long Been Seen As A Storied NBA Franchise, With Very Little New Millennium Success To Show For Their Previous Greatness... Post The Golden Era, When The Garden Was Eden & The Knick’s Won 2 NBA Titles In 1970 & 1973, The Blue & Orange Fans Have Had Very Little Reason To Celebrate What Has Been Happening In New York Over The Last Few Decades. A Change In Backroom Staff & Boardroom Executives Over The Past 3 Seasons, Has Gradually Led To The Organization Beginning To Find Their Feet Again, In An Age Where Meticulous Planning & Visionary Foresight Can Rapidly Propel A Team Into The Upper Echelons Of Modern Sports. Having Recently Watched How The Golden State Warriors Rebuilt A Once Good Franchise, Into One Of The Greatest Franchises Of The Modern Era, Off Of Good Personnel Hires, Methodical Player Acquisition Through The Draft, Trades & Free Agency, Along With Persistent Player Development... The New York Knicks Are Now Positioning Themselves To Make Their Own Resurgence.

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The Toronto Raptors Are A Ball Club On The Rebuild For The Second Time In 3 Season's, Unlike Most Rebuilding Sides, Toronto Has An NBA Championship & A Superstar Level Player To Show For It All - Losing A Franchise Cornerstone Like DeMar DeRozan In The Kawhi Leonard Trade, Before Watching Leonard Leave For LA After Winning A Ring Certainly Stung The Raptors & They Will Do Well To Bounce Back From That Setback Quickly - Pascal Siakam Is A Potential Superstar & Franchise Cornerstone For The Raptors, A Gift From The Basketball God's After Kawhi Jumped Ship For Pastures Anew, The Toronto Brains Trust Will Have To Begin Working Out Ways To Rebuild Around Spicy P's Peak Window, Which In Essence Begins This Season...

It’s Becoming More, And More Impossible To Find Phoenix Suns Haters These Days - A Team That Was Once A Perennial Lottery Picking Ball Club, Has Now Been Transformed Into A Potential Perennial Playoff Team, For Years To Come - After Finishing Off The Bubble Bound Regular Season 8-0, And Missing Out On A Potential Playoff Play-In Game, Through A Tiebreaker With The Memphis Grizzlies, Phoenix Seem To Have Finally Turned Over A New Leaf, Through The Acquisition Of Floor Court General Chris Paul... The Sure-Fire HOF Point Guard Has Come Into A Situation That Seems Tailored For His Expertise & Timeline.

One Of The Biggest Trade Robberies In Modern History, Was When Danny Ainge & The Boston Celtics, Fleeced The Brooklyn Nets Out Of Their Future Draft Picks For The Foreseeable Future, In Exchange For Some Rather Overvalued Future Hall-Of-Fame Entrants, Who Were Well Past Their Peak At The Time Of The Trade... That One Move, Served To Seal Brooklyn’s Basketball Fate In The Doldrums Of Professional Sports, While Also Serving To Help A Legacy Franchise Rebuild After Having One Of Their Most Successful Runs In Recent Memory. Trading In Former Champions, For Picks That You Hope To Turn Into Future Champions, Is A Rather Tricky Business... One That’s Certainly Not For The Faint Hearted.

2020 Will Be Remembered As A Year Filled With Many Surprises, Twists, And Turn Of Events, Yet The Miami Heat Will Inevitably Look Back At This Year, And Begrudge Their Inability To Foresee The True Potential Within Their Squad, And Do The Necessary Business To Add More Pieces To Complete The Puzzle, Before The League Knew That They Were Coming. Having Made It To The NBA Finals, With A Beaten Up Squad, That Wasn't Built For A Finals Run To Begin With, Miami Will Not Be A Sleeper Pick To Come Out The East This Season, Although Many Pundits Have Cast Them Off As Pretenders To The Eastern Conference Throne - Due To Their Perceived Lack Of Talent, In Comparison To Boston, Milwaukee Or Philly - The Miami Heat Have Great (Salary Cap) Room For Improvement, With Some High Earning Guy's Potentially Coming Off The Books, In Positions That They Could Upgrade, And Retool For A More Concerted Run At The NBA Title.

Every Generation, Needs A King; This Adage Rings True In A Sport Like Basketball, Where We've Seen How One Transcendent Talent Can Change The Landscape Of The Entire League, While Often Building A Legacy That Reshapes The Narratives Of Multiple Franchises; Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, Tim Duncan, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant & Kawhi Leonard, Have All Led A Team/s To Multiple Championships, While Staking Their Own Claims For The Title Of Greatest Ever... A King Without A Throne (A Ring), Isn't Considered A King, By The Rather Perplexing Standards Set By Today's Basketball Analysts, Fans & Commentators - Luka Doncic Has Been Handed A Kingdom, That Has Had Prior Success, Under It's Previous King, And He Will Have To Go One Better Than Dirk, If He's To Become The Greatest Every Dallas Maverick King - The Pressure Of Leading An Underdog Side Seems To Fit Luka To A Tee, As A Blue Chip Prospect That Was Slept-On By Many Experts Leading Up To The Draft, Luka Has Grown Into The Best Overall Player From His Draft Class, While Quickly Establishing Himself As An All-Star Caliber Player, Who Can Regularly Compete For MVP Honours, And NBA Title's For Year's To Come.

Projected Starting 5's

Scenario 1

PG - Luka

SG - Fournier

SF - Bertans

PF - Prozingis

C - Vucevic

Scenario 2

PG - Luka

SG - Kennard

SF - Me7o

PF - Porzingis

C - Sabonis

The Process May Have Been Derailed Of Late, Due To The Realities Of Increased Expectations At The Higher End Of The Spectrum, A Reality That Has Seen The Top Brass In Philly Act Decisively In Changing The Head Coach. Doc Rivers Comes Off The Back Of Choking Up A 3-1 Lead In The Western Conference Semifinals This Past Season, Which Was Actually Better Than The Sixers Did Last Time Out, Where They Contrived To Hand Boston A 4-0 Series Sweep, Without Putting Up Much Of A Fight. Watching Jimmy Butler Carry The Miami Heat Into The NBA Finals, While Taking Some Games Off Of The Eventual Championship Winners Should’ve Rightfully Left A Sour Taste In The Mouths Of Philly’s Key Decision Makers.

The 2019/2020 Brooklyn Nets Started The Season With A Rejuvenated Degree Of Expectation, And Rightfully So... Shocking Many In The NBA, And In The City Of New York, Brooklyn Managed To Pull Off The Addition Of Two All-Star's, In Kevin Durant & Kyrie Irving.