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Message: [QUOTE="Ward, post: 2280005, member: 1958"] If Kyrie is leaving because of Gilbert then yea get rid of him. But if Thomas effectiveness is significantly hindered by his hip this year then this isn't a good trade for Cleveland. That version of IT isn't going to really come close to making up for what they lost in Kyrie and they'd effectively be punting their franchise's last potential year of LeBron. Which if that's your approach then they should look into what a franchise would give up for a season of mercenary LeBron. I think you're really underselling IT contributions to the Celtics success. They can't just lose their best player and guy who carried them for stretches to a 1 seed and ECF with nothing in return and not have it make a big impact on things. [/QUOTE]