The solid play of Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis has had many a sportswriter publishing stories about how the Pacers may have actually handled the Paul George saga pretty well, after all.
So far this season, the former has averaged 25.6 points per game while the latter has added an impressive 13.2 and 10.6 boards of his own.
Add in the fact that Oladipo is still just 25 years old and that Sabonis is merely 21 and it looks as though Indian’s president of basketball operations Kevin Pritchard drew a more than reasonable yield for his disgruntled star.
Of course George isn’t the only star who was traded this offseason, we also saw Chris Paul, Kyrie Irving and Jimmy Butler change teams.
Are there any other situations where the first three weeks of the NBA season have fans and writers reconsidering their hot takes from the summer? Do we, for example, give John Paxson and Gar Forman more credit for landing Lauri Markkanen, Kris Dunn and Zach LaVine for Butler than we did when the deal first went down?
Does the current state of the Cavs (or the Nets, for that matter) impact how we grade the Irving swap?
It’s important not to get carried away with the small sample size but the early returns are intriguing to say the least. What offseason transactions have you changed your tune about since the season began? Weigh in below!
I still like the Butler trade for the Wolves, but I never understood why people thought it was so horrifically bad for the Bulls.
Because people couldn’t believe they traded their first rounder. People think they should’ve gotten the trade done without that pick.
I can see thinking it’s an overpay but, would it have been different if the swap of picks wasn’t involved?
Yes. There shouldn’t have been a swap of picks. The Bulls should’ve held out for their first rounder without having to swap. That’s why everyone hates the deal.
Nah people hates everything about that deal. People claimed Dunn was already a bust, Lavine was a total wild card, and GarPax would find a way to screw up the pick. Go back and look at the comments people went ballistic.
The first-round swap was like rubbing salt on the wound!
Wolves might be better keeping Rubio and not sign Teague when then only got a late first rounder for it.
The kyrie trade looked good for the cavs but with how the nets have been playing and Crowder underperforming it doesn’t look so good. But the George trade looks a lot better than it did at first
For the pacers
The Dwight Howard trade has payed dividends for Charlotte so far this year. Dwight’s averaging 14 and 14. The absence of Bellinelli has been filled admirably by Malik Monk. Cody Zeller is playing way better minutes at the backup Center than Miles Plumlee.
The last I looked at monks stats he was starting a little slow? I would love to see him put it together, I think he’ll be great.
Gary long time no talk my friend
You can’t really judge the Cavs trade until IT plays a few games.
Yep two or three games oughta do it.