Eric Gordon is my dad and he's retiring from basketball to play soccer.
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Eric Gordon is my dad and he's retiring from basketball to play soccer.
I think we draft bpa wether it is pf, c, sg, sf, or pg. We need players across the board.
If you Jimmer it, they will come.
yada yada yada.
When you're a team like us, you pick the BPA. A rookie picked at 10 has NO BEARING WHATSOEVER on what we do with Eric Gordon right now.
If they can't coexist, you trade them. But you take the Best Player Available to you, because of the extremely high bust factor in the NBA draft.
Who has been pro max deal for Gordon? I'm just pro "Don't lose our best player for nothing because we're being cheap".
I think you keep Gordon at least another year (of course signing him long term). See how our team does this year and if Rivers(possibly) is performing well enough, then next year trade him for some HIGH lottery picks. I hope he wants to stay because I think him and Davis are really something great to build upon.
Don't go crazy, I want to keep him forever but only being realistic to players and potential movement.
I think without Gordon we are in for another mediocre year but with Gordon we are a playoff team.
Last edited by tdcreator; 06-28-2012 at 12:38 PM.
Gordon wants to be where the money is as at! Lol, funny but true!
Lots of people have. If not you, then don't assume I'm talking to you.
Several posters have said this is ridiculous because we'll just match. But if Pacers offer 4/$58, why would we match that if Pacers offer George and 26, Collison, or Hill.
I'm walking and chewing gum. I'm all for keeping Gordon if we draft someone who isn't a shooting guard, or someone who is a shooting guard, but we believe he can play PG. I also think if we sign Gordon we also use our cap space now to give this team a better chance to compete for a playoff spot instead of "marginally tanking" another year and waiting to use our resources next season. I'm also open to keeping Gordon if we get lowballed on S/T offers BUT, if we draft a shooting guard, really want to rebuild slowly, and get a good S/T offer.... I'm cool with trading Gordon.
See how those two ideas can exist within the same person using logic. I just wish more posters had higher reading comprehension scores, but LA is low ranking in k-12 education, so I'm used to it.
I appreciate the good, thoughtful, and challenging posters... I scroll and don't respond to those that clearly didn't pass the LEAP test and believe that all I want to do is trade Eric Gordon and sign Javelle Mcgee.
FWIW, Eman5805... I consider you one of the better posters.
Ok, so which other teams are rumored to be going after Gordon? Is it just the Pacers since that's his hometown?
Other than his hometown Pacers, which other teams have been constantly brought up in regards to Eric Gordon?
Any other teams out there to help with his leveraging?
I'll go with Maybe. Which is cool. But I can only discuss/debate on this forum based on context, history, and what we know. If we're going to invent a totally different team model, hey..I'm a fan of the game...I'm cool with it, but I'll continue to evaluate our moves and roster based on what I've seen from this team and from teams where our coach/gm have gained experience, until I've seen this new innovative approach we're concocting in the Alario Lab!
I think large expirings will fit the bill.
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What them players you just named, what makes you think our pick will be that high? Our defense will be ridiculous to just be a bad team. But I listen to you opinions and think it in, like when you said "Gordon isn't worth the max" a while back. I totally agree, I think we all do, but that's a move you have to make for the better of the franchise. I also think Indiana wouldn't take George for Gordon, Granger for Gordon yes, but that's a no no for our organization. George is to versatile! And tbh I totally hated your other argument about, getting 3-4 deft picks this year & try to get a pick next year to land Shabazz. That was totally horrible lol, it's really not good to stack your team with young players & rookies.
The most Indiana can offer is 4y $55m. Same for any non-Hornets team.
This is areound $1m/y more than the former offer. We'll match unless we have a better deal by not doing so. It's in our control. Don't discount a trade a few months from now either.
If I was Eric Gordon, I would want to go back home...Indiana has a good team and he would be close to his family. Plus, hornets are rebuilding (similar to the clippers while he was there...im sure he is tired of not making the playoffs) and its going to take +/-2 for us to be relevant.
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