Knicks fans need to realize they aren’t landing Collin Sexton from the Cavs.
The only trade the Knicks should even consider giving the Cavs for Collin Sexton involves Immanuel Quickley, R.J. Barrett, and their 2021 first-round NBA draft pick. If it doesn’t start with those three items, it’s a bad trade. Why start off a column like that? Well, Knicks fans and writers for the Knicks keep pitching some of the worst, lopsided, never-going-to-happen trade ideas we’ve ever seen.
Most of the trades are “bust and late-pick for Sexton“. This is why the Cavs would need back Barrett, Quickley and at least one (but more than likely two) first-round draft picks for Sexton. The Knicks’ talent on their own are, at their best, good starters at best but none of them are actually superstars.
What makes anyone think the Cavs would settle for that. Sure, Koby Altman as team GM is about as effective as an Atari controller in 2021, but he’s not dumb. Trading Sexton to the Knicks for their package is as fireable as an offense can be without it being a felony.
So enter Clutch Sports’ Mitchell Widmeier, an out-and-out Knicks fan. His three trades are so bad that Cleveland should impose the Widmeier Tax, a tax of $1,000, paid only by Widmeier, should he ever enter Cuyahoga County as punishment for his bad and lopsided trade ideas.
Here are his three ideas, and they’re not just bad, but proof that New Yorkers may be the most self-inflated sports fans in the world; because each and every one of the players offered in these trade scenarios absolutely suck.
Cavs trade Collin Sexton for nothing Part I
Why would the Cavs make this trade? The Cavs have a 20+ point per game scorer in Collin Sexton and while he’s not $25 million a year good, he’s better than two goobers who won’t see a second contract and one top-10 bust.
Most players taken out of the top 10 in the NBA Draft hardly ever amount to anything. Sure, you have outliers here or there and a few second-round picks turn into stars every so often but that’s more to do with the luck of the draft. The Cavs aren’t the kind of team that finds those guys so getting two picks late in the first round is about as useful as finding a dud-grenade when you’re staring down a Terminator.
Those picks won’t help the Cavs win in 2021, which is the plan, and Kevin Knox doesn’t need a change of locations, as the author seemed to indicate, but needs a new career. Knox is everything wrong with the NBA scouting and talent evaluation process, as he didn’t show much in the pre-draft, except being long and tall.
Knox wouldn’t do any better in Cleveland than he did in New York and if this is the best the Knicks have to offer for Sexton, then Cleveland would be better off keeping him and re-signing him to a new deal.
There’s no way this trade actually flies in the real world.
Cavs trade Collin Sexton for nothing Part II
No really, why would the Cavs make this trade? At least with the first trade suggested, you could pair the 19th and 21st pick and move up to get someone like Corey Kispert. With this one, you get even less and a player who has somehow shown even less potential than Kevin Knox. Sure, Obi Toppin only played one season and he was stuck behind Julius Randle the same year Randle put in an MVP-caliber season. Not good news for Toppin but not a bust.
Toppin, however, is also more of a run and gun type of player, using his athletism to score in transition; not so much in the half-court. His defense is rank and is almost as bad as his perimeter shooting. This trade is even worse than the first one. Considering the Knicks fans who were putting Toppin and Knox together in trades, only to get laughed at, the idea of just sending one or another is lunacy. Pure and utter lunacy.
The Cavs would be fools to not only take the trade but to even consider it. There’s no good reason to make this deal, as someone will eventually come calling for Sexton with a deal the Cavaliers like. No one said you had to give the Knicks a discount because they’re the one franchise who’ve been worse off than the Cavs over the last three decades.
Cavs trade Collin Sexton for nothing Part III
No, seriously, why in the heck would the Cavs make this trade? These trades keep getting worse. If the Cavs wouldn’t take Kevin Knox or Obi Toppin, why would they take Mitchell Robinson? Robinson is often a negative offensive player for the Knicks and is barely a passible defensive player. He’s not even an upgrade over Isaiah Hartenstein, who’s much better defensively than Robinson, let alone Jarrett Allen.
Not only that, but the Knicks went from the 19th and 21st pick to the 32nd and 58th pick. What? You’re supposed to increase the value of trades, not decrease them. Frankly, there isn’t a trade that makes sense with the Knicks as most of their assets are only impressive to them.
They’re like the kid who had a Paul Shuey rookie card and kept trying to trade him for your friend’s Jr. Griffey rookie card.
“They’re the same, they’re both rookies”! Shut up, Todd. They are not the same.
That’s what the Knicks fans are trying to do with these trade ideas. “Hey, we’re giving you back young talent for your young and good talent.”
Todd, I think you’re missing some adjectives.
If the Cavs make this trade, Koby Altman should be fired before the phone call finishes.