This is from my post in the season thread
"Honestly Hawk I agree. Punish him for this. He traded a popular player with two years left on his contract. Should have let Butler choose a coach, made him happy, and cleared cap to pay his best friends from USA basketball and summer time max contracts. They could have tried a speedy rebuild(same as white sox) and hoped for the best, that is how it works in the NBA. Always could have traded him at the trade dealine in last year.
NBA starters- Lopez-Lavine
future NBA starters- Dunn/Lauri
NBA contributers- Mirotic
future NBA contributers- Portis, Valentine
Honestly....this is my team grades. I could be too hard on Zipser leaving him out. He is maybe a low tier contributor, like Grant is a 3rd string point guard type, 3rd string SF contributor if you have an injury....yeah Zipser."
Is this really a left field view of Portis? That he is developing into a future role player? hahahaha. ok. whatever. time will tell.