Everyone in this league needs to understand what Mavs has said for 8 years:
Blazers is a troll.After I roasted him for being a terrible GM, I said to myself: "he's going to send some friendly assets to Nuggets to troll me" and sure enough 48 hours later...
What do trolls do when they try and fail? They troll and act like they didn't care the whole time as a farcical defense mechanism. You see it all the time when you're torching someone like Blazers in a sport, they're losing badly and start trolling like they weren't trying the whole time and don't care about the result.
But rest assured: Blazers did try to turn the corner and compete, and flamed out like the trashcan GM that he is.
He overvalues all his own assets, is scared of his own shadow trading like the before picture in a Low-T commercial, and has rarely improved his team as a result because he can't find the right deals. Instead he just hid like a little bitch under his bridge collecting tolls, drafting and signing overpriced and underperforming FAs in Summer (where I absolutely torched him and played him like a fiddle using Old Bucks as a puppet. Straight up bullied.)
His only meaningful draft hit in like 8 years was Trae Young who he LUCKED into because Lakers is a terrible GM and passed on him to draft Marvin Fucking Bagley... and NUGGETS TOLD HIM TO TAKE TRAE. Cringe lucker.
Now that he's tanking and on an infinite timeline, expect him to troll the next few years in trades. He'll prob mix it up with serious trades and a few eyebleaching moves because it's the only way he can get attention since he's irrelevant as a threat to win the league.
Nuggets:Nuggets trades 40 IQ Pissed in the Poole this guy is such a terrible basketball player it's like giving away herpes. Getting off Westbrook is nice but i mean he was an expiring he could have done it with 1-2 seconds so not a big deal, in effect he gave up a 2nd to move off him which is meh.
He gets VanVleet who is fine at 14.5 14.5 for 37, but again I think people (like Nuggets, who is an idiot crying about Pascal when I've had similar assets like LMA putting up 38 FPPG for 16m 16m and got NOTHING for him and had to let him walk in FA for free), people HAVE NO CAP, see that they can get similar players for free in FA, or need the cap in summer to re-sign their studs, or you know, HALF the league is tanking at any given time and don't want your 30-33yo 37 FPPG guy on a 15m deal that doesn't fit their timeline.
Still, he didn't give anything up for him... Westbrook was a negative dump and Poole blows... for a 2nd rounder he dumped WB and got FVV who is solid and productive and 0 risk... there isn't a big market for those types of guys (except me who would have given him more for FVV but Blazers is a troll who is more interested in trolling than the best possible return).
Excellent trade by Nuggets, hopefully in the future he can vote in a timely manner. Grade A chump. A+ move but spoonfed easy mode because blazers just wants a reaction out of me since he sucks too much to win the league.
Blazers:Blazers takes dead money, gives up a decent asset, so he can... re-sign human centipede fullback Jordan "I suck anus at basketball" Poole... lol... like it's hard to tell where Blazers genuinely being awful at fantasy ends and his trashcan trolling begins.
He's genuinely the only person I've ever thought "maybe I should read a book on interacting with people with Asperger's" to help trade with a person.
Absolute garbage F grade on this, but he probably already knew that and definitely doesn't care.
Probably far from the last trade like this that he makes for the attention.
I approve.
