It's not smoke and mirrors. Boogie is actually on our team. People act like Dell had the Boogie trade fall into his lap when Philly was asking for basically a similar package for Okafor. Whatever Dell was offering to them he stood firm on and Philly balked. Now we have our foundational piece. He has to get credit for that. The time to fire him was any one of these past few summers. He did what he's been trying to do since he traded Chris Paul and lucked into AD. He brought a legit star to NOLA. That has to matter at least for one more summer. I'm telling you, we've never seen Dell have this much leverage. He doesn't have to take the same gambles to get the higher payout. Now that he has the 2nd star he can go after guys based on what he can reasonable expect and not project as much. This is a good thing.
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