“What Danny Ainge was able to get for Rudy Gobert is a crime”: $13M Golfer Tony Finau hilariously calls out his friend for ruining NBA

Akash Murty | 10/08/2022
“What Danny Ainge was able to get for Rudy Gobert is a crime”: $13M Golfer Tony Finau hilariously calls out his friend for ruining NBA

If Rudy Gobert deserves five first-round pucks plus some decent players, shouldn’t Kevin Durant get you a whole squad?

There is a reason why the Brooklyn Nets haven’t found a trade package for a top-5 or arguably the best player in the league, Kevin Durant.

And it is former Utah Jazz’s 3x All-Star Rudy Gobert’s trade to the Minnesota Timberwolves. That trade has increased the stakes for every other possible trade in the market.

KD was already an asset which was too valuable, and he’s still to kick in on his first year of a $198 million 4-year contract, that made him untouchable in the market because teams will have to give up at least their two stars for the starters.

But after Rudy’s trade, it has gotten impossible to evaluate KD’s value. And some people think it’s Utah’s CEO of Basketball Operations’ fault that we are here.

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Golf star Tony Finau believes Danny Ainge ruined basketball with the Rudy Gobert trade

Danny Ainge took up the Jazz role last year after leaving the Celtics’ President of Basketball Operations job where he served for 18 years as a front office executive.

His friend and the hottest Golfer in the world currently, Tony Finau, recently in a podcast appearance had his say on the Gobert trade and how it has affected Durant’s trade and the whole league in general, and he didn’t hold back.

The $13 million worth golfer hilariously described how Ainge has ruined the NBA this off-season by getting what he got for the French international, which he said was a crime.

Jarred Vanderbilt, Malik Beasley, Patrick Beverley, Leandro Bolmaro, Walker Kessler (No. 22 pick in 2022 Draft), FOUR future first-round picks and a pick swap for a man who averaged 15.6 points, 14.7 rebounds, and 2.1 blocks per game.

Four future first-round picks are excessively much for a one-dimensional 30-year-old centre. Adding three players in that trade that are above-average role players, and two who might even turn out to be great future aspects, was literally criminal. Well said indeed by the Utah native.

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Akash Murty

An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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