really crippled its futureHere ' s the thing people are kinda missing with the situation their future wasn ' t that bright . CJ and Dame are both entering their primes , but their front office is unwilling to trade either of them despite neither of them being able to defend at all in a conference full of dominant guards . Those two are too good for them to get into the lottery , they don ' t have much in the way of young playersassets to trade , and it wasn ' t looking like they were in play at all for any big free agents any time soon . Their ceiling is and likely would have been a 3 rd 6 th seed in the West for the next 34 years . They could get enough role players to win a title the way the Mavs did in 2011 , but there was really no way they were gonna be able to get starpower to match the Warriors or Cavs in the short term . If I were in charge of them , I would be looking to trade CJ for a good twoway big man and some depth pieces . That being said , Turner still makes no sense on their current roster .