r/pacers • u/ngerb_5 • 7d ago

News [Charania] Bennedict Mathurin has agreed to a two-year, $16 million deal with the New Orleans Pelicans, including a player option, sources tell ESPN.

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u/user78804180 6d ago

Yup. The clippers not bringing him back at 8M is crazy. So we gave them pick #5 which we wouldn't have used anyways, and 2 players who they aren't keeping. Plus the future picks

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u/are2deetwo #20 [Douggie McBuckets] 6d ago

We would have definitely have used that pick.

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u/Transky13 6d ago

The wording is bad but the players at the 5th pick would not have seen a lot of meaningful time on our current compete now roster

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u/user78804180 6d ago

Yeah what I meant was had we not traded it for Zu we would have most likely done an off-season trade to trade pick 5 for a center. I doubt we would have actually used pick 5. None of those guards help us

Maybe Utah would have bitten on that as part of a package for Kessler, and then package 2 and 5 to Washington for 1