Russ is a positive +- contributor to the team. I can’t imagine a scenario where Russ is traded and a single Clippers problem goes away. Clippers would lose a strong locker room presence and for a team that already lacks energy; Trading Russ would be deflating. Unless the Clippers go all in on a rebuild and trade every star, I can’t imagine adding anyone in the line up that isn’t named Embiid Nikola or Giannis that would justify trading Russ and improve the Clippers with Harden Kawhi and PG all sharing the floor.
I can’t imagine adding anyone in the line up that isn’t named Embiid Nikola or Giannis that would justify trading Russ and improve the Clippers with Harden Kawhi and PG all sharing the floor.
I agree with a lot of your sentiment, but this statement here is pretty egregiously wrong lol. Go find any top power forward including Siakam, JJJ, Lauri, Mobley, etc. and it immediately improves the Clippers with 213 + Harden on the floor. Same likely applies if you got a top 15 center to replace Zu.
Obviously none of those are realistic trades, and Russ is largely not going to be traded because you won’t get better value than him in any deal due to his limited market, but there are absolutely guys far worse than MVPs that would justify moving Russ to improve this squad.
Russ is a positive +- contributor to the team. I can’t imagine a scenario where Russ is traded and a single Clippers problem goes away. Clippers would lose a strong locker room presence and for a team that already lacks energy; Trading Russ would be deflating. Unless the Clippers go all in on a rebuild and trade every star, I can’t imagine adding anyone in the line up that isn’t named Embiid Nikola or Giannis that would justify trading Russ and improve the Clippers with Harden Kawhi and PG all sharing the floor.
I agree with a lot of your sentiment, but this statement here is pretty egregiously wrong lol. Go find any top power forward including Siakam, JJJ, Lauri, Mobley, etc. and it immediately improves the Clippers with 213 + Harden on the floor. Same likely applies if you got a top 15 center to replace Zu.
Obviously none of those are realistic trades, and Russ is largely not going to be traded because you won’t get better value than him in any deal due to his limited market, but there are absolutely guys far worse than MVPs that would justify moving Russ to improve this squad.