We need to let George walk. We aren’t contenders even with him, and it makes moving off of this failed 213 era even harder. I understand not outright tanking because we don’t have control of our picks for a while, but that doesn’t mean we need to keep trotting out an underachieving, expensive, old, and unenjoyable roster out there in the meantime.

Regarding the discussion around how much more flexibility we’d have if we were negotiating with homegrown draft picks instead of old veterans – I counter w/, we only have flexibility when said draft picks don’t suck, and our FO absolutlely sucks at drafting. I know a lot of our picks have been late picks, but to only hit one 2.5 guys (SGA, Mann, arguably Coffey) for the entirety of Frank’s tenure here is a pretty damning indictment of his competence in talent scouting. He’s drafted old draft picks who still weren’t ready to play – the worst of both worlds.

Sorry for the rant, and for sounding like a broken record – but we should let George and Harden walk, try to trade Kawhi during the season, and then clean house in the FO.

Also the downside of re-signing George isn’t just that we’d be stuck w/ his albatross of a deal at the end. The real downside is what if we’re stuck w/ that and we still suck? It’s not even hard for me to imagine a situation where George and Harden return, but Kawhi and one or both of George and Harden are hurt, and then what? We still give OKC our picks and have to put up w/ this shit for even longer. The longer we put off swallowing our medicine, the worse it’s going to get.