Opportunity to rebuild the right way.
8 years ago the then New Orleans Hornets won the lottery. With a chance to draft what was considered a franchise player. We draft Anthony Davis and the fan base was reenergized the future for many looked bright after losing the franchise's greatest player Chris Paul and a very public and some what ugly way.
What happened following that off season was a huge mistake. The plan was to fast forward and build a team full of young vets that could not only win big in the future, but compete now. While in a vaccum the theory had merit in the current NBA climate it was the low percentage play. Young vets need to be paid. We matched a max contract for Eric Gordon who a) was injury prone and b) didn't want to be here. And we traded future assets for Jrue Holiday who had just signed a large contract extension coming off of an injury. Now any wiggle room for mistakes was practically non existent. And unfortunately a lot of things went wrong some more foreseeable than others. Once the problems started Demps only doubled down farther leaving us without a chance to draft a core player. Ultimately leading us to where we are are franchise player requesting a trade.
Now winning the lottery again we are gifted with a chance to draft another guy considered a franchise changing player. Hopefully this time it's different under David Griffin. Hopefully this time we play the long game. We can trade Davis and Holiday for even more future assets. Use those assets to acquire as much high end talent on rookie deals that's available. If over the next 3 drafts we can get a title worthy core it'll mean we'll likely be competing from O'Brien trophies for a window of 5-8 years if not longer when those young men start to come into their own. This should have been the game plan 8 years ago. I think there should be no doubt(barring any major changes to the CBA) that this should be the way moving forward.