You fight the good fight, but remember that scores of members here had the Pats falling apart all year due to Guerrero, Jimmy G, Kraft, etc. because some dickhead with an agenda and a keyboard said so.
If I'm Dell Demps and the Pelicans I tell the Lakers I want all of that plus Josh Hart and they have to eat the Solomon Hill contract, too.
What happens when they say yes? You've just acquired three pennies and three dimes for a dollar, as per that hilarious trade-window that @Sam Ray Not posted yesterday.
If they say yes then you know you can have everything sans Lebron and you weigh it against other offers accordingly. It’s not a great offer but it’s not bad either.
that has been my line of thinking... sweeten that with 3 unprotected picks starting in 2030 and the rights to swap picks every year from now until then... and probably still not!
There is a massive financial disincentive for Davis to leave NO to begin with. It's clear this isn't all about the most amount of money on the table.
Right, there's a pretty clear pattern in the NBA now:
Cut the shit.
Yeah. It's weird that - after several pages of unfounded rumors and guessing - someone points out the counterpoint of Occam's razor. Thought it deserved to be mentioned. Guess were just working with conspiracy theories here. My bad.
Are we married to “Krexit?” I get that it’s closer to Brexit, but “Kyrexit” rolls off the tongue better.
You think Kyrie will leave Boston to play with a 19-year old kid? He’s having enough trouble dealing with kids here who have been through the league a couple times. Enough problems with it to reach out to LeBron.
I appreciate you being certain in your views but for some of us, its still a legitimate discussion. Not triggered here but if you think we aren't chill enough you can just sit the thread out and amuse yourself at the posts or ignore them.
If the Knicks win, there is a non-zero chance they shop the pick for a star to bring in now, and then go all in on the free agent market to bring in another star or two. While I think the Knicks keep the pick, I don't know enough of the dynamics of that franchise right now to rule out the trade possibility.
I know I was at least one poster that made the point in the bolded. While I agree the money will be the same, I still not sure why it would be in Kyrie's best interest to say anything right now. He had nothing to do with the AD trade request and the resulting media storm. Anything he says will be parsed 100 different ways to eternity and eventually be held against him by the media anyway. The media speculation really isn't his problem, and if the team cannot overcome it, then the team is not that good to begin with .
I assume he meant that the Knicks getting the #1 pick would make it easier for them to trade for AD, making them even more for attractive for Kyrie.
I'll just go ahead and say it since this may not be clear to everyone reading that this doesn't pertain to Kyrie. Windhorst's statement is that 'all' players are available 'after the season when Irving is expected to become a free agent'.
100% correct. If they get the #1 pick they can make a very attractive offer to the Pelicans to get AD
I can't agree with that. Do you think Rich Paul is putting words in AD's mouth, or manipulating AD on LeBron's orders? Or do you think, for whatever reason, AD really wants to play for the Lakers? AD wouldn't have changed agents if he wanted to play elsewhere. He hired Klutch sports because he knew that it was his best chance to become a Laker.
I wouldn't put a whole lot of stock into this quote. Rich Paul is Lebron's best friend and their goal is to get AD out of New Orleans and on the Lakers right now. It would be against their best interests to consider Boston as that would just pull the timeline out until the summer.
I don't think there's any question that Davis would jump at the chance to join the Lakers.
You want the Kings to win the lottery, just not the #1 pole. Any other lottery win and the Davis/Irving Celtics are going to kill the NBA in 2020.
So a Lakers' mouthpiece says the Lakers are where Davis wants to play? What comes next will shock you!
I know that was the ebb point of Bob Odenkirk's career, but I will always remember it fondly.
Oh for fuck’s sake. IT can’t even play now, Danny should have given him a max or something?
