RedBlackAttack
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I saw a Knicks Cavs game at MSG during KJ's rookie year. He relieved Mark Price. This may be blashpemy in Cleveland but you could immediately tell who the real point guard was-it was not Mark Price. Moreover I was never a fan of Larry Soft Nance. I stll cant get over the stupid Ron Harper Danny Ferry deal. To this day I think there was a mistake and we were supposed to get the draft picks. The way I look at it Danny Ferry killed 2 generations of CAVS teams. Unfortunately I am starting to look at the Sessions trade with the same opinion. How do we give the Lakers who have been looking for a point guard forever a point guard and only get back a late first and we have to pay stiff walton's salary. The draft pick exchange is going to be a wash. Maybe Gilbert was just trying to reduce the cHeat's chances at a ring.
Don't want to derail the thread, but the Sessions deal made all of the sense in the world. First of all, unlike the Harper/Ferry deal, we aren't taking a chance by possibly choosing the wrong guy. In retrospect, Harper was clearly the far superior player. Even at a young age, I remember being very confused as to why we traded Harper considering the way he was playing.
Sessions, on the other hand, was the second best point guard on the team the moment that Kyrie was drafted and that gap was only going to widen. Furthermore, he was going to be a FA at the end of the season anyway, so we needed to get what we could for him while we could. Lastly, we needed to tank regardless and Sessions wasn't going to help that.
Taking on Walton's salary is of no consequence. We still have plenty of cap space going forward.
But, anyway... Different topic for different thread.
As for KJ, he was a legitimately great player. So was Mark Price, though. Like I said, I'm sure we could have found a way to make it work. Or, at least get a hell of a lot more for a talent like that. While the Ferry/Harper deal gets most of the attention, that Kevin Johnson trade was even worse in my estimation.
Harper was a very good player, but he was never prime Kevin Johnson level.