after 2 seasons removed from the trade of Pau

MEM actually won it's first playoff game and playoff series

upsetting the #1 seed SAN

at the time, I can understand the league wide reaction

in trading an all-star for his little brother (it's kind of hard to follow all of the trades of the picks involved, but I think it ended up being Darrell Arthur and Greivis Vasquez as well)

but 3 years later, they are a better franchise w/o Pau

the Timberwolves and Magic scenarios are more indicative of terrible management decisions

MIN got 7 players for KG

and picks

the draft they took Thabeet with the #2, they literally could have picked anybody else and done better

the team KG left behind is kind of comparable to the ORL roster after the D12 trade

kind of leaning toward management screwing those up

and not so much that they didn't get value

but they constructed a team that wasn't going to win a chip

and have to start over

the CP3 trade could easily turn out the same as the MEM situation

NOR didn't have great success with CP3

now they have some pieces

I think they won 1 playoff series with CP3 (could be wrong)