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[QUOTE="OttoinGrotto, post: 1089242, member: 297"]
I get K's perspective having coached Love, but there's just such a false dichotomy at play in the Wiggins/Love thing. People are talking like if Wiggins isn't a star now they need Love now, because he is a star.

My question is - why do they [I]need[/I] another star right now? They have good talent, depth, financial flexibility, and the ability to improve their current and future roster via draft picks or trades involving picks. Love costs them something from all of those things. The East is still the East - even the teams we think will be pretty good have big question marks. I also think that as Lebron ages he doesn't just need players that compliment skills, he needs players that duplicate his skills so that he isn't required to carry as much burden. I believe that the cost of adding Love actually adds to Lebron's burden more than Love adds to that team.

So many of the assumptions about why Love is the right move are questionable. I'm not saying the assumptions behind keeping Wiggins are any less questionable, just that nobody's talking about the downsides of adding Love. There's a whole lot of group think and platitudes about "needing stars" and stuff.
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