Brian Windhorst: I’m not sure that Trae Young’s value is as high as they’d like it to be. So this is a real pivotal year as you say for Trae Young. Number one: after this season he can extend his contract and in the current environment first off we know that he’s on the ‘fun max’, we know the next contract is ‘stress max’ time. It’s been dubbed the ‘stress max’ because it affects both sides. Sometimes it’s the stress on the team whether they can get the player to sign and sometimes it’s stress on the player about whether he can get that second max. In this environment where under the new rules, where you’ve got to watch the dollars being spent especially when you get to the 30 percent part of the max, Trae is going to have to have a big year, even if it’s to stay in Atlanta and sign a max deal.
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Tim MacMahon: There wasn’t a real market for Trae Young and he doesn’t necessarily need to reestablish a trade market for himself, but as as extension talks are coming I think he does have to reestablish his value. But honestly he it’s a bad situation in Atlanta because the Hawks are in a position where they should be entering what would hopefully be kind of a rapid rebuild but they can’t, because the Spurs have all their draft capital. So they’re in this awkward situation where you know they should be unloading more pieces but it’s just not something that you can’t bottom out to make the Spurs better. -via YouTube / September 1, 2024
Tim MacMahon: The simple fact of the matter is if there was a real market for Trae Young he’d be somewhere else right now. It’s not like they got some kind of wild blockbuster return for Dejounte Murray. -via YouTube / September 1, 2024
NBA Central: Here’s the full top 100 list of NBA 2K25 player ratings: 1. Nikola Jokic, 97 overall 2. Luka Doncic, 97 overall 3. Giannis Antetokounmpo, 97 overall 4. Joel Embiid, 96 overall 5. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, 96 overall 6. LeBron James, 95 overall 7. Stephen Curry, 95 overall 8. Jayson Tatum, 95 overall 9. Kevin Durant, 94 overall 10. Anthony Davis, 94 overall 11. Anthony Edwards, 93 overall 12. Devin Booker, 93 overall 13. Jalen Brunson, 93 overall 14. Donovan Mitchell, 92 overall 15. Jaylen Brown, 92 overall 16. Kyrie Irving, 92 overall 17. Kawhi Leonard, 92 overall 18. Victor Wembanyama, 91 overall 19. Tyrese Haliburton, 90 overall 20. Ja Morant, 90 overall 21. Damian Lillard, 89 overall 22. Jimmy Butler, 89 overall 23. Paolo Banchero, 89 overall 24. Paul George, 89 overall 25. Trae Young, 89 overall -via x.com / August 26, 2024