**OFFICIAL 2019 NBA OFFSEASON THREAD**

[you go boy]

Kerr is just salty cuz it’s the lakers and they so happen to play in their same division… they know the west goes through the lakers and clippers and the warriors are just not as good… kinda reminds of pop being salty the lakers got gasol for peanuts lol…

 

[SpittaJetLife]

The AD situation was a train wreck. No two ways about it. It was handled poorly on both ends and it is what it is.

Comparing that to the PG situation is silly.

Either way, there does need to be protection for guys like Blake who sign a mega-deal to stay somewhere and then get dumped into obscurity without any repercussion at all.

If that's no-trade clauses, so be it, whether that's full or partial or whatever. Trades could trigger some sort of option or whatever. But the CEOs aren't giving that up without something coming back.

Id play in South Dakota if you paid me what Blake makes a year.

 

[youngthundercat]

Dog who is the woman on the jump today. My god.

 

[MVP]

The AD situation was a train wreck. No two ways about it. It was handled poorly on both ends and it is what it is.

Comparing that to the PG situation is silly.

Either way, there does need to be protection for guys like Blake who sign a mega-deal to stay somewhere and then get dumped into obscurity without any repercussion at all.

If that's no-trade clauses, so be it, whether that's full or partial or whatever. Trades could trigger some sort of option or whatever. But the CEOs aren't giving that up without something coming back.

Lol the PG and AD situations were handled the exact same initially. Both went to their respective GMs and asked for a trade privately and to specific destinations. Difference was Demps was an idiot and tried to go around the agent to get AD to change his mind. Presti acted like an adult and accommodated PG immediately so it didn't have to turn into a public spectacle.

 

[moe200069]

Kerr is just salty cuz it’s the lakers and they so happen to play in their same division… they know the west goes through the lakers and clippers and the warriors are just not as good… kinda reminds of pop being salty the lakers got gasol for peanuts lol…

at the notion of kerr being salty and concerned about a division rival consisting of 34 year old lebron, AD, big jordan clarkson, and free agents from the Big 3

 

[JD617]

Not trying to single you out, but why do so many ppl call him BYRON RUSSELL?

His name is BRYON.

People have been spelling it that way for so long, I'm pretty sure that's how most people think it's spelled. It's even spelled that way in Michael Jordan's own book.

 

[harlemtothebronx]

at the notion of kerr being salty and concerned about a division rival consisting of 34 year old lebron, AD, big jordan clarkson, and free agents from the Big 3

LeBron averaged 27/8/8 last season.

I'm just sayin'.

 

[ill steelo]

Kerr is speaking about potential and trends....and what a “contract” ultimately means. It’s a larger conversation than it’s been reduced to.

And we’re saying that a contract ultimately meant the same thing when a guy like Blake was traded.

He signed a contract to play with the Clippers. The clippers changed their mind.

AD signed a contract to play with the Pelicans. AD changed his mind.

What is the difference? The player can’t change his mind but the team can? When the player changes his mind a contract means nothing, but when a team changes their mind the contract means what exactly?

 

[MVP]

And we’re saying that a contract ultimately meant the same thing when a guy like Blake was traded.

He signed a contract to play with the Clippers. The clippers changed their mind.

AD signed a contract to play with the Pelicans. AD changed his mind.

What is the difference? The player can’t change his mind but the team can? When the player changes his mind a contract means nothing, but when a team changes their mind the contract means what exactly?

They just need to say don't demand a trade to the Lakers and be done with it. All these rest is semantics. Whole league is ALA.

 

[akajae]

"BAD FOR THE LEAGUE!!!"

 

[you go boy]

The warriors will still make the playoffs but don’t expect them to be one of the top teams in the league… no KD, no klay, no iggy so that backcourt defense looks shaky

 

[Maximus Meridius]

KD played out his contract and didn't demand a trade a year and a half away from Free Agency. Apples and oranges.

He was under contract when him and Dray was talking.

On top of that OKC ain't get nothing for KD. NO did get something for AD and coulda got more if they ain't act like bitter gf's back in February.

 

[IATT]

He was under contract when him and Dray was talking.

also cant forget how KD played once his team went up 3-1 on the warriors prior to him leaving, to join the warriors

 

[lawdog1]

^^^ I think one reason why people like Kerr use the AD situation as their example for why players demanding trades is bad is because it played out mid-season last year. So it allowed for the narrative that AD “quit” not only on his franchise, but his teammates too. At least with PG, it all happened after the season and after the Thunder had been eliminated from the playoffs.
Not saying I agree, but that is a distinction between the two situations.

Really though, Melo started this in the modern era. And, guess what? The Nuggets recovered just fine from having to trade Melo.

 

[wavycrocket]

And we’re saying that a contract ultimately meant the same thing when a guy like Blake was traded.

He signed a contract to play with the Clippers. The clippers changed their mind.

AD signed a contract to play with the Pelicans. AD changed his mind.

What is the difference? The player can’t change his mind but the team can? When the player changes his mind a contract means nothing, but when a team changes their mind the contract means what exactly?

You’re assuming, I don’t follow this line of thinking . I get it. I’m simply responding to the context that Kerr was speaking to.

Most people took his “bad for the league” line...read the headline...and assumed he was talking about competitive balance etc...in the vein of “ruined the league”. He wasn’t.

Whole league is ALA.

Good!

 

[casper90403]

Boring

 

[you go boy]

I remember during the 2010-2011 season there was so much hype on that melo trade… I feel like that was the beginning of all this trade drama or demands lol… but once he got traded to the knicks there was no hate because he got traded to the knicks…. All the media and everyone else talked about is how the knicks gave up the kitchen sink for melo… well that trade looks like nothing now considering how much the clippers and lakers gave up for PG and AD

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

Where does Jimmy Butler and the Timberwolves rank in this conversation? Good or bad for the league? Or nobody cares because it's Minnesota?

 

[dman14]

And we’re saying that a contract ultimately meant the same thing when a guy like Blake was traded.

He signed a contract to play with the Clippers. The clippers changed their mind.

AD signed a contract to play with the Pelicans. AD changed his mind.

What is the difference? The player can’t change his mind but the team can? When the player changes his mind a contract means nothing, but when a team changes their mind the contract means what exactly?

no-trade clause? it's pretty rare in the nba, but players need to have that incentive or at least a list of teams they are willing to be traded to

 

[Maximus Meridius]

one party makes the contract, the other party signs it and is bound to it. unless blake demanded a no-trade clause, clippers' front office could've traded him to the shanghai sharks if they wanted to.

Man you sound like one of them.

Teams been cut throat. I get that. Once again, not fully agreeing with Kerr.

I see what he was saying as speaking to the larger issue and potential this could be if it “becomes a trend”. Like, what’s stopping a dude from signing a 5 year deal with his team...and in year 2.5 of 5....looks at a destination where the grass looks greener and demands a trade or threaten to shut it down etc.

So?


You bout to cry tears for these owners that don't give 2 f's about players.

 

[MajinZuub]

Where does Jimmy Butler and the Timberwolves rank in this conversation? Good or bad for the league? Or nobody cares because it's Minnesota?

Dude went about it in the worst way possible then rejected a max contract from the team that traded for him to live in Miami

 

[moe200069]

also cant forget how KD played once his team went up 3-1 on the warriors prior to him leaving, to join the warriors

difference is, even if he played poorly after building that the 3-1 lead, he still played out the remainder of that series.

 

[nick.]

Whole league is ALA.

It's not enough emojis for this

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Didn't the Spurs "shut it down" to get Duncan?

Such a black eye on the league.

 

[moe200069]

Man you sound like one of them.

please enlighten me on what you mean by "one of them"...