Sorry, a little unclear by the wording. Did he say Boston wasn't as close as Cleveland/Houston/LA? Or that Houston/LA/Boston are all not as close to acquiring PG13 as Cleveland?
Ireland asked him if he had to throw a guess out there on George, where is he playing to start the season. Stein sighed, thought, went "uh..umm", and finally said something like I could see him in Cleveland. Then he quickly kept speaking and said that doesn't mean Houston, Boston, and the Lakers don't keep pursuing him the same.
So what Stein ultimately said, was nothing. He was guessing, he was asked to play GM and guess because that's radio.
Exactly, but he threw Boston in after Houston and the Lakers which made me think maybe Boston has other priorities first that need to fall into place. Ramona and Ireland seem a little split on Hayward. Ireland is pretty convinced he stays in Utah, Ramona is not so sure, but she thinks Miami is an absolutely legitimate threat for Hayward. Boston is unlikely to make a strong move on George without Hayward in hand (that part is just my opinion based on the context clues).
naw, as long as he doesn't trade PG to LA, most will praise him for not giving into a players demand and helping the lakers resurgence in anyway possible
Pritchard will not give PG what he wants unless the Lakers included BI and/or Ball in some package. PG will have to come here next year.
That's exactly what happened when Chris Paul was traded to the Clippers. Practically all fans of teams aside from the Lakers were claiming the Clippers package was much better than the original trade with the Lakers. Of course we knew that wasn't true, and history has shown we were right, but it didn't stop everyone else from insisting otherwise. I fully expect the same reaction if PG is traded for a garbage package from a team not named the Lakers. The original offer of Clarkson, Randle, and two first rounders will be declared as terrible and that the Pacers did well not to accept it. Unfortunately as Lakers fans we have to accept that the rest of the league strongly dislikes our team, and that includes both fans and owners of other teams as was made crystal clear by the Chris Paul veto.
You can't blame your star player for wanting to leave, who has also made it pretty clear he was leaving all season long, if you've failed to build a contending team around him. Their best shot was a couple years ago with Hibbert, West, etc but they blew that up. And you "rebuild" around him with Al Jefferson, Thaddeus Young and Lance Stephenson? You try your hardest to send him where he requests to garner good will amongst other stars/future free agents. Instead they act like the victim and painted PG as the villain. I'm sure he won't play a second as a Pacer this season but he won't be a Laker either. Fingers crossed he's still interested in coming home next summer.
No we're not, but it's overreaction city here apparently even though no trade has actually been made. Still the popular thing is to overreact and act like the sky is falling.
lol, ok bro. indy denied our better trade offer and is being linked to inferior offers. they're reportedly hacked off at our management, thinking they were involved in orchestrating george's departure (people still super happy about canning ol' bytheybook kupchak?), and george's folks are softening his la-only stance as the hours go by. there's no way to put a good face on this today. if this is bothering you, much of reality must?
i don't see this as being similar to the cp3 veto at all that got all messed up because the league owned the hornets at the time. there's a reason why stern took the lesser offer but that's a whole story for another time the league isn't running the pacers. if they really did accept a lesser deal like gordon+future pick they would have a whole lot of explaining to do
it's part kg deal, part cp veto. in any case, the whole thing reeks of a league-wide bias. seriously, everyone freaked out that a last place team was going to get paul george at a higher price than someone just paid for chris paul. you can't make this stuff up.
