I'mWithDan
"Straight Cash Homie"
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In your estimation, is Love, Cedi, Zizic and the 8th pick in the draft more valuable than Kawhi Leonard?
Clearly, it is not.....if we are operating in a vacuum where you assess absolute value and assume he is 100% healthy.
My stance on this is, where does it get us? What can you win with LeBron, Kawhi and effectively nothing else?.....in addition to no realistic way to improve the roster? To me, that puts us in the same place....just a better version of the same place....and as Lebron ages, our situation isn't any better IMO.
There's some cost to moving a disgruntled star (see Kyrie) and value is set by what the market has to give up. Usually in these scenarios, there's also some preferred destination list that further dampers a players value a bit.
Kawhi is worth more than the package described above but the Cavs have to consider the bigger picture here. They have to think about how they can form a big 3, not how they can form a more ideal big 2.