Anthony Davis Discussion: Only Player On Both All NBA + All Def

My question is, why cooperate? Why would the Pelicans open up any avenue that would allow us to build a Superteam that would make their picks (the ones from us) worth less? Right now, we are one Lebron or AD injury away from teetering on the lottery. If you add Kawhi, an injury probably still leaves us with a pick in the 20's.

 

Because why do they really care? Look at their roster. They're full of kids already. The picks are now and have always been mostly superfluous. They've got a dozen picks. They need us to play ball as much as we need them.

Also, we don't HAVE to include them in dumping these players and we're going to do it anyway, what does it hurt to see if all three teams can't gain a little extra?

 

You'd have to think this was an element of the original negotiations. Rob knows the cap. I'm sure they worked out an additional pick swap or whatever as part of NO agreeing to allow us to work this out with a 3rd team if they found a taker for the 4th pick. No way this is just an "Oh, by the way..." type thing Rob's trying to toss in after the fact. He's not that stupid.

 

IF I told you you can have the future pick in the late teens or the early twenties, you'd take the late teens. The third team? Not sure who that team is. We're going to have to give something else to get them to take our contracts since we have zero leverage.

 

Agreed. But Kurt IS that stupid.

 

We absolutely have leverage. It's our pick. Would we, at this point, take our ball and go home? Probably not, but would they either? It's our pick we're all messing with. The Pelicans technically just broke a league rule by trading an asset they don't have.

 

I’m grasping here, but maybe to maintain a good working relationship with the Lakers and Klutch going forward? Griffin doesn’t seem petty and vindictive, even if he’s working for a woman who is, he just seems like a good GM.

 

The Rambis’s.

 

I’m going to go ahead and say it feels like it was a LOT of Magic, without trying to really defend Rob at the same time. The whole anti-Warriors thing seems very much like an old school plan that Magic would cook up and think was brilliant. Rob’s job seemed to be more of the guy making the money work, and telling his ridiculous stories to make the signings look good. Now, this can be proven wrong. If this offseason we go out and sign Melo, Rose, Crawford, Rondo, KCP, etc, it will be a sign to me that Rob is just as clueless as he’ll have assembled another team of “names” that aren’t actually good anymore and/or are terrible fits.

 

Wait, I’m confused. Don’t you mean “f*** you Woj” for all his misreporting that the Lakers were clueless about the timing aspect of this and we’re scrambling the last couple days? Maybe even a “screw you” to Ramona for saying on The Jump that Rob called NO back after he’d realized this mistake too, which seems like complete nonsense now?