Anthony Davis Discussion: Thanks For The Ring AD!!!

Can’t even offer him a max extension without the kicker: fact!

Klutch klients are signing extensions all over the place: fact!

If you’re so concerned with what he said, this is in fact what he has repeatedly stated:

“I like playing the four, I’m not even going to sugarcoat it. I like playing the four, I don’t really like playing the five,” Davis said with a smile. “But if it comes down to it, coach, and you need me to play the five, I’ll play the five.”

And since you find our FO so infallible, here’s what they even said.



You believe them right? They wouldn’t be lying to you.

 

Credit John and Ken..... KFI describing someone in Sacramento clutching her pearls a number of years ago.

 

Good enough. Communities converging. Haa

 

Why the eff did you post what you did about him at the 5 then? Did not read like sarcasm.

"Anyways...here’s the only time AD should play extended minutes at the 5 in the regular season. I would say that’s opportunistic."

Klutch and AD you act like were in the effing "dark" about his kicker and what the FO hoped to do with the roster post Clippersnake.

 

hart inclusion wasnt necessary, that had to do with clearing the deck for that snake salary

 

yeah, not sure there's a rebuttal to AD stating he was testing FA no matter what, but that doesn't seem to deter the vash narrative.

again, no sane person thinks AD should play zero minutes at center. if AD thinks that, he is also insane. but he doesn't. because he said so. multiple times. again, not going to get in the way of a good story...

 

And it begins...

 

He was on the court with 3 minutes left and didn’t seem in any distress.

 

Hopefully it's minor.

 

He is fine,no injury.
I am watching Lakers Nation on YouTube.

 

Fake news! AD is posting about the Green Bay Packers so if there really was an injury, I doubt the guy would prioritize his time posting about the Packers.. Most likely, he went straight to the locker room to check the Packers highlights/score....

 

Why isn’t he in the cryo chamber?!


udleyshrug:

 

he's fine

but honestly its nerve-wracking as **** watching him play because of his injury history. i get scared everytime he hits the floor

 

Seems like AD's shoulder was affecting him:



The dude needs to stop falling down every play. He's trying too hard out there at times.

 

@abeer3 I think the narrative of him wanting his trade kicker before he agreed to forego it was real and not some story I concocted. But thanks for the credit. With his trade kicker we can at the very least offer an extension. With cap space we would be able to restructure his contract to max level (we needed 5.6m in cap space to do it though). So we're all sitting here alot more comfy if we could lock dude up, cause that seems like what he wants to. If you have the option to offer an extension, why not? He denies it, then that's really on him. Now it seems its more on us...

As one person close to him said when asked to explain how people should see the Lakers’ chances of retaining Davis here, “Just don’t f*** it up.”



Per Woj on June 15th:
For now, the expectation is that the deal will be completed on July 6, the end of the free-agent moratorium, league sources told Wojnarowski and Bobby Marks. Assuming that Davis continues with his plan to accept his 15 percent trade bonus of $4 million, the Lakers will have $23.7 million in available salary cap space for free agency. Davis has the right to void the bonus.

Davis has long indicated privately that he plans to sign a new contract with the Lakers once he becomes eligible for free agency in 2020, sources said.

The Pelicans' return for Davis was substantial and perhaps even more impressive given that the market had shrunk on New Orleans, based upon rival teams believing he would ultimately become just a one-year rental before leaving for the Lakers next summer.


Per Ramona Shelburne on ESPN:

My understanding is he doesn’t intend to waive that. He’s due the four million dollars, and he’s going to keep it. But again, as you just noted in that monologue, things can change.

Per Rich Paul:
When asked by Elhassan how he handles this type of request as an agent who has his own family to feed, Paul answered, “I asked what’s important to him. If it’s important for you to keep your money in your pocket that’s what we’ll do. But if it’s important for you to win, the more money you have available to go out and take talent then that’s what you do.” Paul added that this decision was not contingent on landing Kawhi Leonard.

Then on June 27th, 12 days after the trade had been agreed upon...



As for the center thing:
For Davis, the desire to play alongside a true center is real. Davis is comfortable playing minutes at center during the playoffs, a league source told The Athletic but prefers a true big next to him over a full regular season.

I'm happy to keep discussing this with you guys (although others seem to be squeamish with this ride), but I just think there is enough out there that we can't fully trust free agency to work out completely in our favor, so it would have been ideal to have the option to lock up AD. And now that we can't, we should appease to every one of his wishes till we do lock him up next summer.