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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 4330961, member: 767"]
I don't think I am exactly saying that.  I (think) I am saying: Mitchell is a good player, probably even a very good player.  He would make the team better.  There is a price I'm willing to pay for him.  (A price that is, by  historical standards, very high.  Look at what we sent out for Melo, for instance, vs what we're talking here.)  But I think 3 (or 4!) is just too high a price.
I do think you can build a team around him.  But if you're sending out 4 unprotected ones, you're also depleting the assets you can use to trade for more players.  Even if you're just sending out 3, that basically means all you can move is youre 2029 first.  Who are you bringing in with that if the price for Mitchell is 3 unprotected ones plus whatever else you have to throw in?  And like I said, simply the further you go out in time, the more unknowns there are and the less sure I am about how good the team is going to be and what the value of those picks are.  
Like I said, Mitchell is very good and he clearly wants to be here.  He's not great, he's not a guy who automatically makes you a contender.  I just think you have to draw a line in the sand somewhere on price.  I'm fine missing out on him if it's 3 or 4 unprotected ones going out the door.
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