https://nypost.com/2022/07/12/donovan-mitchell-trade-would-take-knicks-dealing-rj-barrett/
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RJ Barrett a necessary sacrifice if Knicks want Donovan Mitchell
By Mike Vaccaro
若尼克想交易來米丘，RJB是必要的籌碼
The draft picks are the easy part, let’s be honest.
They are attractive to look at, for sure. Leon Rose has collected them merrily, guarded them meticulously, and jealously. There are 11 first-rounders stowed away carefully under the glass in the Knicks’ warehouse, like a prized collection of stamps, coins or baseball cards.
選秀簽好談
LR像集郵一般的呵護他們，並有多達11隻可動用首輪
Rose was not willing to part with a plethora of them a few weeks ago when the Spurs were shopping Dejounte Murray, and so Murray wound up with the Hawks. Murray is an excellent player. He and Jalen Brunson would’ve made a dynamic pairing in the backcourt at the Garden.
But he isn’t Donovan Mitchell.
幾週前，當馬刺願意交易DjM,LR不願意跟選秀權說再見，所以他最終去了老鷹。Murray是一位特別的球員，他跟Brunson的暴力後場可以活躍在花園球場上
但他不是Donovan Mitchell
And according to The Athletic, Mitchell is once again in play. According to the report, Mitchell — three-time All-Star, Westchester County native, owner of a 23.9 career points-per-game average — is being dangled by the Jazz. And the Knicks are thought to be at the front of the line, trying to swing a deal.
根據The Athletic報導，這位生涯場均23.9分的三屆全明星被擺上交易台。而尼克被認為領跑其餘球隊，並積極的促成交易。
The Knicks have all those draft picks, and this is precisely why they have assembled them. They are assets, and if you are willing to part with enough of them they can make a deal more attractive. But the Jazz are a smart operation. It will take more than draft picks — even if the Knicks are willing to part with four or five of them, which is what it took Minnesota to pry Rudy Gobert away from Utah.
The Jazz are going to want players.
尼克有交易米丘的資產- 選秀簽，而這正是尼克收集他們的原因。但即使尼克願意同灰狼帶走狗貝一般放棄4-5個選秀，爵士還會要求更多（潛力）球員
The Jazz are going to want, almost certainly, RJ Barrett (and, if I were a betting man, one of either Immanuel Quickley, Quentin Grimes or Obi Toppin).
幾乎可以肯定，RJB必須放進包裹（若我喜歡放手一博，則會從Quixkley,Grimes與Toppin中帶走一個）
And this is where things get hard.
This is where if you are Leon Rose you have to ask yourself a cold-blooded question: which version of my roster drags the Knicks closer to where they need to be? Barrett would be a tough sacrifice. Knicks fans have watched him grow up over three years. He is still only 22. His work ethic and capacity for improvement are matters of public record. And he is probably the most popular player on the team right now.
He could be a perennial All-Star.
這就是困難的地方，LR需要冷血的自問，自己想要哪種版本的隊伍。
球迷見證了他3年的成長，Barrett有天賦有能力，而且他才22歲。他是隊上最有人氣的球員。
他可能成為All Star的常客
But Mitchell — himself only 25 years old and locked up contractually for four more years — is a perennial All-Star. He has had winning in his blood forever, first at Louisville, lately with the Jazz. As tempting as a Brunson/Murray backcourt was to ponder, a Brunson/Mitchell partnership could truly project to being a cornerstone of an eventual contender.
但米丘 - 綁了4年約，25歲已經是全明星的常客。而他與JB的後場也確實可以成為追逐冠軍的基石
Me? When the choice is young with accomplishment versus younger with upside, I will take the former every time. And I absolutely love watching Barrett play, have loved watching him blossom at the Garden before our eyes.
Is it a massive haul? It is.
至於我，年輕+實績與年輕+天花板中的選擇，我總會選擇前者。
我喜歡RJB在我們的主場時，在我眼前得分成長
這是一個巨大的抉擇嗎？是的
米丘可以讓尼克總在東區前4嗎？ 不一定
But the Knicks are in danger right now of being in an even more difficult predicament than they were before Rose arrived, when they were simply an annual piece of the NBA’s dregs. At least when you’re awful every year there’s the lottery — even if, in the Knicks’ case, that’s proven to be a fool’s-gold quest the last 37 years.
Where they are now? Stuck in the never-never land of mediocrity, of 35 to 45 wins every year — too good to have legit lottery odds, too bad to be reckoned with as credible contenders — is a hamster wheel of oblivion, a treadmill to nowhere.
尼克面臨比LR來之前更艱難的選擇，因為尼克那時候就是聯盟的渣渣 ，至少當你爛透了的時候會有樂透選秀。而在尼克37年的歷史來看，每次（在交易）都是一種經典的傻瓜交易
每年35-45勝，讓尼克有如卡在倉鼠輪，不是一個可靠的競爭者，也得不到樂透為球隊注入新生命。
At some point, you have to go for the carrot.
Is Mitchell that carrot? What he is, more likely, is the kind of piece that makes the Knicks a more attractive option than they’ve been in 25 years for future free agents with wanderlust in their hearts. And again, the question is this: what version of the Knicks’ roster makes that more plausible, with Barrett or with Mitchell?
It says here Mitchell. The cost will be steep, and losing a player like Barrett will sting, and for those for whom first-round picks are more valuable than platinum there will be some wrung hands. But Knicks fans are immune to the pain by now; all they crave is a cure. Mitchell would be a pricey cure. But he makes them better. And that’s supposed to still matter.
有些時候，你總是要做出決定
米丘是那個決定嗎？他會讓尼克成為25年來最好的樣子嗎？再問你自己一次，米丘或是Barrett 你想要哪個核心的球隊。
雖然失去Barrett讓人痛苦，選秀簽沒有不見，只是變成你喜歡的樣子。尼克可望被治癒，而米丘就是那個昂貴的治療方案，他讓我們更好，這仍是最重要的。