Jordan Clarkson and Julius Randle are the core veterans on this team with to two years under their belt and Randle didn't even play his first year.

Nick Young is our elder statesman.

We have an awful lot of unknowns with our young guys and it's a very hard sell to get anyone with stature and better established suitors with money to give us a real look.

There's no one for these guys to team up with to make us a winning situation immediately so even if Mitch had Riley level charisma there's nobody out there that would make us anything but a mid level playoff team, and is that what we want to blow out money on long term anyways?

For all the talk of us striking out on Melo and Aldridge would either of those guys have us in a prime situation right now?

After KD and to a much lesser extent, Whiteside, it's not like we're missing out on anyone that makes us a contender.

Biyombo just played in the ECF and his team can keep him.

I thought we had a shot at Whiteside because I didn't see many teams willing to throw max money at him but even then it wasn't like he even shopped around heavily. Still, we all saw him as a mixed bag for us to begin with.

We're in a full blown rebuild and we have some intriguing young talent. In two years it's entirely possible that we could be thanking out lucky stars because everyone comes into their own together while we have bird rights and, hopefully money to spend at a time when we've built a team to sell people in and bird rights to keep our home grown talent.