Originally Posted by
tacosman
the whole thing just pisses me off. I don't like the lakers, and I hated the trade because I knew this would happen. And it did. Now it sucks.
What else is there to say?
We get to watch the Lakers and Lebron and AD celebrate a title....that sucks. And the pelicans are the ones who made it happen.
People here have been spinning it a number of ways- but BI is excelling, but the draft picks, but but but.....no **** that- what matters is Lebron and AD are
going to be laughing and mugging for the camera after a couple to few more games and the pels let that happen. I'm supposed to be content in getting a
non-difference making stats guy(BI) and some unknown quality future picks to watch that happen? ******** no......
Look at the last two finals winners- Toronto with KL(who was obviously the difference for them) and the Lakers with AD(ditto). Two cases where a player wanted out, had one year remaining until FA so the team controlled them, and the team trades them to the team that wins it all.
I would much rather, certainly in KL's case and even in AD's case although I know thats a different return, just stuck it to the player and made them waste another year of their prime than give in and trade them. In the case of KL, the return was total crap so you aren't even losing anything. And while the return was a lot better in the AD case, unlike in the KL case he got to go to his preferred team and the team most of our fans didn't want him to go to.
People will say "oh if you did that to AD then you would get a bad reputation and top free agents wouldnt want to come in the future". LMAO....we are the freaking pelicans. Half of casual nba fans don't even know what city we play in(they probably get us and charlotte confused). We are a damn dumpster of an organization in terms of name rec, drawing power, ability to attract difference making free agents. Nobody is going to come to us anyways who is a true difference maker in free agency, so get out of here with that crap......
What we did have is some leverage to not let this ******** happen this year. Maybe it would have happened next year anyways after he picked a FA destination....maybe not though after another year. But we damn sure controlled it this year, and we just gave in to him and took up it up the ****** and now we all get to watch them win another title because of it.....the hell with that