Trading Kawhi, PG, and Rebuilding the Clippers 

I have a feeling start today is going to be “under maintenance” until 2k24

Wow crazy to see Emoni Bates a 69 overall 2nd round pick when in previous draft classes i remember that man going #1 anyone remember that

17:36 love how Matt noticed too that 1st overall pick always gets traded for De'Aaron Fox LOL

as a clippers fan you made my day and this was so fun to watch you make the team better you should be an actual GM

Bros intros always remind me of how my teachers used to tell me how to write a hook for an introduction to my paper 😂

I thought you were gonna sign Lonzo that would’ve been pretty fire. It’s sad about Lonzo man. Just thinking about how good of a fit he was at peak irl, it’s crazy the career he had ahead of him. I don’t think he ever was going to be a star, but he was such a rare type of player. You just rly don’t see 6”6 guards who can handle the ball, create for others, had the juice to be a solid lead guard…but was wayyy better as someone who also played off ball a lot and fully embraced that. He defended at a very high level, always gave a ton of effort, amazing on ball, but smart on both ends knowing where to be even when he wasn’t on ball. He also became a VERY good 3P shooter especially off the catch. He obv shot v well in college, but he had a kind of janky release early in NBA but they fixed it in NOP. His last 3 seasons he was near 39% 3P on over 7att. Over 40% off the catch. Had a solid 2.3-2.4:1 ASST to TOV, consistently 1.5stls, & even solidly over half a block. 5-6 boards. The only thing he wasn’t v good at was creating his own middy or getting to the line. But I mean he played w a lot of volume scorers…DeMar, LaVine, even Vuce, they had like Ayo or Coby w/e. NOP it was BI, Zion, even Bledsoe & NAW were taking 10 FGA. BI/Zion 35 combined FGA & 14 FTA lol. The season Zion only played 24g, Jrue took 16.5 FGA, BI still around 18, JJ 10+, couple others w 8 in low mins. LBJ BI Kuz got up 50 lol. He’s rly always been super high 3PAr, defended, racked up assts, & didn’t take many 2s. When he did they were at the rim. After his rookie year he was basically 60%+ at the rim every season at least. NOP/CHI was like 61.5% which is solid since they were mostly self created. But just being able to defend 1/2s at a very high level, switch on to smaller 3s, pass and handle well, and hit 3s at high volume at a very good clip at 6”6 with a 6”9 WS just super rare. He was really the perfect guard to compliment elite scorers. There’s no doubt if he stays healthy he has a legit 15yr career, makes $250M+, and likely ends up winning at least one ring at some point. He would’ve been able to opt out after next year on CHI, and it’s more likely than not someone who doesn’t command a max deal but is so valuable and perfectly compliments elite players ends up winning a chip. It’s honestly sad. At least he got that one contract, just hope he can be healthy even if it’s not playing high level ball. It’d be awesome if he could eventually come back and be good again, but idk, with how bad it sounds just hope he can be good life wise and like walk normally and stuff man. Crazy. I’m not even a LAL/CHI/NOP fan or anything lol, just can’t sleep and went on a tangent. GL to Zo.

Ya the clippers are kinda tough to rebuild realistically. Keep it up!

Let’s go! Fire vid and great trades!❤ I said the trades are great because of the stories you create around it🙏🏻🏀

What scenario and draft classes do u use cause mygm is fun.

Amazing video as always keep it up

Do a Shai Gilgeous Alexander Hornets rebuild.If you get the number 2 pick or higher trade it to the Thunder for Gilgeous Alexander if you get number 1 pick get Wembanayama on the Hornets.

what’s the beat @18:30?

Not only did you get Tatum playing with another Jalen, but his last name is also a color

SROS: someone liked a couple of my comments from a video of yours from mid March. It was a Bobcats rebuild. You also liked both comments, and they were both super long so I’m surprised you even read them lol. You might’ve just skimmed and liked. Not sure, bc you did do something very similar a couple times not long after that video iirc so. But they were about more historic rebuilds, but more situational ones. I gave a ton of examples but the possibilities are legit endless. I’m talking rebuilding teams that messed up majorly in the late ‘00s, early-mid ‘10s, or closer to modern day, w/e. Here’s some examples I gave: NYK not trading for Melo, & waiting until FA so they didn’t give up all their depth. Build around Rose as a rookie w injuries off. Keep Harden on OKC, & maybe trade Russ? Russ obv had insane value, and they were worried about $…so could’ve moved him for a PG who wasn’t so ball dominant, could space the floor, and was on a bargain deal, or early on in their rookie deal. I guess they didn’t realize the TV $ was coming and was gonna be so nuts, so really even a PG that was cheaper for even 1-2 seasons bc it was very soon after that ppl realized the cap spike was coming, and it wasn’t that far from happening. Rebuild SAC starting at the Luka draft, & take Luka instead of Bagley lol. Luka and Fox would’ve been very interesting, and I’m sure Fox would’ve prioritized developing his off ball game more sooner (C&S 3s, becoming a better midrange shooter faster like he is now, floaters, etc) and then they had all their own 1sts & stuff. One more before my personal favorite is getting rid of Wall before having to super max him, there was a solid 2yr window where it was clear they weren’t gonna contend, while still having Beal balling out on a good deal with crazy value. So could’ve moved both and tore it down, or built around Beal and got some assets for Wall. Then my favorite, the 76ers right after Hinkie “stepped down” at the end of the 15-16 season (literally April 2016, I think the regular season was over, obv they weren’t in the playoffs) had just an obscene amount of assets, young guys, good players on great deals, and they were about to have the #1 pick where they took Ben. Who knows if he takes Ben in that draft…he def wasn’t afraid to make moves. List of assets I can remember and verify (young guys on good deals, future picks, recent picks, etc.) is below. It wouldn’t surprise me if there were more, but I wanted to be able to verify it using bball ref. Players: Joel, RoCo, Saric, Jerami Grant, TJ McConnell, Richaun Holmes, Christian Wood (but they let him walk immediately so eh) Basically all of these guys were on insane value deals or rookie deals. “Hinkie Specials” became a term. He signed SO many 2RP/UDFAs to 3-4yr deals with like 1-2yrs of gtd money, then the 3rd/4th year non gtd or TO. Like RoCo, Grant, McConnell, etc. were all on 3yr+ deals making around $1M (some slightly less, some slightly more, but all +/- ~200k or so a year) Picks I know for sure of: #1, #24, #26 in ‘16 (Ben, TLC, Korkmaz) ‘17 pick that allowed them to swap #5 for #3 to SAC (The pick they moved up to #1 for Fultz, along with giving up pick that became #14 in ‘19 (Langford) idr if there was another asset they gave up or not. Picks that became #10 and #26 in ‘18 (Mikal/Shamet) Pick that became #14 in ‘19 He also had like 8 billion future 2nds and a crazy amount of them ended up in the first 10 or so picks. They also had all of their own 1sts, and a lot of cap space and expirings. Obviously the PHI possibilities are endless. They squandered most of the assets. It’s funny, the one thing that “worked out” was getting Maxey…but that in itself was horrible. They traded Grant for a 1st and got the pick that became Maxey. They then traded that pick in some stupid trade I can’t remember. They then dumped Fultz for a heavily protected 1st and got the exact same pick back from ORL (it was originally an OKC pick iirc) which ended up as a pick in the early 20s where they took Maxey. So even getting Maxey came from a huge mistake. I mean having Jerami Grant in itself would be great for this team, it’s not like they needed to move him to get a pick in the 20s. It’s usually quite easy to get a pick #22 or whatever. Maybe a role player and a 2nd or two…maybe like a pick in the 31-35 range, some cash, and a couple future 2nds. We’ve seen all that kinda stuff. But then they moved up from 3 to 1 to get Fultz, squandered a top pick and a future lotto pick in the process. So you could move Ben, or take someone else, and they had that swap with SAC in the Fultz draft. So even if PHI did well, or didn’t get lotto luck, they at least would’ve gotten P5 from SAC (afaik) where SAC took Fox. It’s honestly pretty crazy Philly isn’t better when you consider the assets they had. Fultz trade, Mikal trade, Tobias trade (then maxing him), Jimmy trade then basically letting him walk, spending like $30M in cap on Horford then having to give up a 1st to dump him, the list goes on…and all of those trades cost them future picks, a top pick, crazy amounts of cap space, opportunity to sign or trade for good players, led to more mistakes, until it all snowballed. And there are a million other scenarios you could do. There’s so many points in NBA history where one or two bad moves (or sometimes unlucky) changed the fate of the league for years to come. It’s just something you could do whenever you thought of a good idea and found a good roster for the situation. People seem to love historic rebuilds too, even just going back as little as like 5 years or whatever there’s so much. Sorry for another crazy long post. Hope you can get some ideas out of this and it leads to some awesome content. Thanks for reading. ✌️

Love the vids!

To get cheaper contracts you have to go in contract sliders and chang e min rating and Max rating and salary curve and it'll help with the ridiculous contract expectations

maybe try out the 3 team trades while rebuilding so u get most of the picks while giving away players.. if u wanna have financial trade restrictions even in the off season.

I’m a rockets fans and that Jalen green trade made me mad lol, if we did that I’d be finding a new team to root for

CHANGE POSITIONS AND TENDENCIES FOR PLAYERS (simmons & derozan)

Can you please do a Jalen Duren rebuild when you did the 5 year Las Vegas video it was so good he played like Shaq like you said in the video

Keep it up Matt

It’s so dumb how 2k messing up the 5 and 6 seeds broke start today and since it’s the playoffs they won’t fix it

Future rebuild idea for after the lottery is set... Jalen for Jaylen. Brown for Green since Udoka is in Houston

I've been trying to get into realistic rebuilds and the correct way to actually do em and these been helping me ong

When I turn my free agent signings to auto on the last day, I get cheap signings

If the Clippers actually traded Kawhi and 4 firsts, PG, norm and RoCo and all we got back is Ben Simmons and jalen green id never watch basketball again

Front hairline looking way better like this than b4 hood job

@sixringsofsteel you should do a clipper rebuild but like starting in the magic bird era rewrite every wrong they did

5:19 What JGreen rumors ??

I think good trades for pg13 and kawhi too help the clippers rebuild Pg13 too the nuggets for micheal porter jr and 3 1sts Or pg13 too the hawks for john collins & aj griffin & 2 1sts Pg13 & nic batum too the grizzles for ziare willams, desman bane and luke and 3 1sts Kawhi too the heat for tyler herro, jovic and 2 1sts Kawhi too portland for simons, cam reddish and 3 1sts Kawhi too the warriors for jordan poole, moses moody and 3 1sts Kawhi too the kings for keegan murry, barnes and 3 1sts

How was Cancun?

Ngl, “Money Bates” sounds like a dope ass name

kawhi with butler, lowry, adebayo, herro... coached by spo 🔥

They need a pass first efficient point guard and afew talk centers because that’s al they lack

Finally someone drafts my boy emoni 💪🏼

Kawhi for 5 first rounders are you serious? What sick scenario did you download there? For me that's easily THE MOST ABSURDLY UNREALISTIC trade in all of the rebuild series😂😂😂

One of the funniest rebuilds I've seen

I’m a huge Rockets fan Matt and I can tell you right now…..we would never trade Jalen Green for Paul George.

I’m a clippers fan and this one hurt

don’t like the trade scenario realistically, matt. they will keep these guys as long as possible, but 2k hates these guys in a rebuild sense. all good; appreciate the content.

You know there’s a counting aspect to the stars with the trades; right? Lol you had multiple offers at the beginning of the video that had no SHOT of going through. Asking for like 7.5 stars in trade value for a 4.5 star value in PG. 😂

One thing u can count on.... The 2k community always doing a post playoff clippers rebulid bcuz they havent done anything since creating this squad

You should mess with the contract sliders. Boston demanding 20 mil a year is unrealistic

High risk low reward, that's my typa draft pick

I don't think PG and Kawhii would have super high value atm becuase of the load management/injuries but without any picks it's tougher to justify a rebuild but they should becuase this team is cooked

Matt, we've already had a LBJ lead team vs former LBJ team in the finals

I agree it needs to be a rebuild

jayson tatum went from playing with jaylen brown to jalen green

Bucks needed Matt to save coach Bud's job. They fired him days after he lost his brother in a car accident smh.

This was a good rebuild and they should definitely try to trade both pg and kawhi Because theyre screwed

healthy kawhi is one of the best players in the league, a big shame dude is always injured.

You supposed to start bronny out the gate

Finally shit I had when you don’t trade the star player. Blow up the team.

Please rebuild the 1996 rockets

I stayed with the fact Kawhi should not have left and paul George was not the guy if he was still gonna leave to be his partner

You should do a color rebuild, use only people with a color last name: ex: jaylen brown, jalen green, Derrick white, etc

bj boston so underrated man

I have a feeling where keeping both Kawhi and Paul George...

Hear rumor of deal with New York, who are desperate for a star, PG for E. Quickley, RJ Barrett and Hardenstein.

Challenge: Next time win with Kawhi and PG 😂

Just repeated OKCs rebuilding process by trading two aging stars for a young guard and a bunch of draft capital

Kawhi to bklyn would be insane 😮

Kawhi messed up when he didnt go to the Lakers with Bron and AD.

Just skip over holland making rookie 1st team with Harper

kawhi to heat is lit

no way you trade for jalen green, that's a bummer... there's no way rockets easily gave up on him lol

We lost to Phoenix is six games not five we’d never get Gentlemen sweep we at least forcing game six

That PG trade u got ripped off hard!!

Ben Simmons for kawhi Leonard 😂 Next Dillon brooks for Luka doncic

As a Rockets fan, if we traded Jalen Green for Paul George I would throw myself off a bridge

injuries off is wayy better.

Realistic Orlando Magic rebuild

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I think the draft lottery is rigged against player controlled teams.

Trade pg back for shai and 5 picks from okc

Clippers curse is real

LA Injurie

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