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Around the League 2019-2026 Edition

LeafGm said:
What do people think on Pettersson? A buy-low opportunity on a guy with potentially #1 center-level talent?

Or an albatross contract that shouldn't be touched with a ten-foot pole?
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Depends on how much they're willing to retain. He's been a lower tier #2C the last 2 seasons, I'd have no problem with his contract at something resembling what one of those is worth.
 
zeke said:

View: https://x.com/SinBinVegas/status/2067298724829876720?s=20
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Haha.. I listened to McCrimmon crying about not getting enough respect in this interview today. The best part was that he totally answered his own question multiple times. Modern expansion can create a competitive team, a team with balanced salaries and the kind of depth that most teams struggle to accumulate over multiple seasons. His argument against that was that Seattle had the same expansion rules -- but without saying it, we all know that Seattle really fucked up their expansion draft.

When I hear guys crying for respect, I just think of Trumps Arch - like why wait to immortalize me, do it while I'm living -- oh, wait I'll just do it myself.
 
BG said:
Haha.. I listened to McCrimmon crying about not getting enough respect in this interview today. The best part was that he totally answered his own question multiple times. Modern expansion can create a competitive team, a team with balanced salaries and the kind of depth that most teams struggle to accumulate over multiple seasons. His argument against that was that Seattle had the same expansion rules -- but without saying it, we all know that Seattle really fucked up their expansion draft.

When I hear guys crying for respect, I just think of Trumps Arch - like why wait to immortalize me, do it while I'm living -- oh, wait I'll just do it myself.
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Seattle did do a shit job in their expansion draft. But coming in four seasons after Vegas's expansion draft also put them at a disadvantage compared to Vegas.

Pretty much every team that made expensive side-deals to protect certain players got to watch the results of those deals unfold over several seasons and realize they'd lost them badly. So by the time Seattle came around teams by and large knew to avoid those side deals, accept that you're going to lose one good player in the expansion draft and just suck it up and move on.
 
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