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I think it's more about the idea that a player can 1) force a trade and 2) demand what pieces are OK in that trade package.
I believe teams can have more than one player on a rookie extension, but they can only roster one of them that was acquired by trade. Since the Nets traded for Simmons, they couldn’t trade for anyone else that signed a rookie extension.
It's still so bizarre to me that he was going to the length of creating fake profiles to defend himself to the trolls on social media. Great player that clearly has some mental health issues.FTR, I generally don't, just piling on since I saw the opportunity.
But nah, hell I don't care if he ran back to GS. I love KD as a player, have since he's been in the league. For my, he's the greatest all-around scorer to ever pick up a basketball. Would love to see him win a few more rings.
Just bums me out a little on the personal side of things how similar he is to Kyrie. Not the crazy part, but how for whatever reason, he just seems like a dude that's always miserable. Not even from just a basketball standpoint, seems like he carries that attitude off the court too. Idk if the media pressure got to him somewhere along the way, but just seems like a dude who forgot how to smile & laugh.
In retrospect, I find it kind of funny that Durant was going online and defending himself under different names, and let's face, almost all of us post here at Football Guys under a pseudonym (my real name, for example, is not Ghost Rider
), but his constant obsession with pushing back at any and all criticism is a little weird. But hey, it seems to work, as a good percentage of the sports media is seemingly afraid to criticize him now (see: Stephen A Smith who apparently was yelled at once by Durant's mom for it and now genuflects to him and will always blame everyone but Durant for almost anything), so his madness appears to have worked to some extent.
Uh, yeah, my Woz/Zow name has nothing to do with my real name...In retrospect, I find it kind of funny that Durant was going online and defending himself under different names, and let's face, almost all of us post here at Football Guys under a pseudonym (my real name, for example, is not Ghost Rider
it honestly feels like video games have skewed people's perspectives so badly that reality is no longer part of the calculus
Frostillicus said:
Wouldn't do it if Toronto.What remains with KD isn't winning him the East let alone NBA title.Frostillicus said:
Dumpy franchises like MN gotta overpay
Mikal Bridges + Top 29 protected 1stFrostillicus said:
You shut your pie hole.Gobert was a massive overpay. And he himself is vastly overpaid. I mean, yay best twin towers since AD and Cousins I guess
Well yes. But sign and trades are far more prevalent than straight up free agent signings. There are almost zero contenders making space below the cap to sign free agents outright. Thats just not how things are done these days
There really is nothing to be gained by comparing pro sports scenarios to any of our work situations.
There really is nothing to be gained by comparing pro sports scenarios to any of our work situations.
Don’t sign that extra guaranteed year if you may not want to play it out and teams don’t sign guys to that if you aren’t committed to them because your trade options will be limited. Seems like teams and players just go for that option automatically and don’t think it through.
Disagree. Sign and trades are done more as cap filler when salaries don't match than to necessitate the signing of a free agent.
Yeah, the premise of the rule is to give small market teams more leverage, both in allowing the extra year and restricting player movement. Same as the super max.
I just see speculation/rumors that they will pull it. I don’t think they have a reason to pull it anytime soon unless they want to make a statement by doing so.
Every year, there are only a couple teams that have max cap space available. And every year we see free agents go where they want to go, regardless of team's cap space. And they go there via sign and trades. They can be smaller deals, like Lonzo to CHI, or larger ones like Durant to GSW. But in both cases, the preferred method of building a championship roster is not to create max cap space and hope you can sign a superstar, but rather stay over the cap and make a trade.
Durant didn't go to GSW in a sign and trade he was signed while GSW was operating under the cap, just as he later went to BKL who was operatiing under the cap. Ball, otoh, while was acquired via sign and trade, was restricted, and had zero leverage unless NOP wasn't already planning on not matching a max offer sheet.
I can see it from his perspective of course, but he’s also taking away any leverage from a team that paid him a max contract to rehab for one and a half seasons. There’s also the fact that he was a large part in creating most of the madness that took place during that era - but he then blames the front office for it and demands a trade all on his terms.
Zion Williamson has signed his five-year extension. To me, the Pelicans have sufficient pieces to get to that 55+ win level right now. Trading for Durant would gut the team and tear apart the culture being built.
Yea, I confused the GSW with the BRK deal.
Interesting stuff. I don't follow the Pelicans that closely and was a bit surprised the extension got done so easily.
I think the plan is basically to run it back and hope the young guys develop under Clifford
The fact they gave him that contract after a catastrophic injury and paid him to rehab, and now he is pulling this stuff in terrible form.
If the limited info out there is correct - he wants out because the Nets had the nerve to tie Kyrie's extension/guaranteed money to you know...actually playing - not from injuries but from all the other nonsense. If KD cant understand that after all the NEts did for him and Kyrie the last 3 yrs then hes a lost cause in my book.
