Hornets listening to offers for Eric Gordon {merged}

His 4th year is a player option and I don't see him turning down 15 million

The whole point of keeping him right now is to raise his value. He's obviously been injured-plagued the past few years and he has not played extremely well this season, so once he plays more and hence will hopefully raise his value and get healthier, we will be able to trade him for more before he opts out in a few years. We will not compete for a championship next year, but acquiring better pieces in the next couple years is no doubt in our best interest.

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Originally Posted by optimist

DO you understand that in 2 years he will leave and we'll end up with nothing in return, just like nothing for BD and nothing much for CP if I'm right and Gordon walks in 2 years. Surely please tell me you people have some brains. Get the best offer even if just draft picks and get rid of his way overpaid salary. Then with the cap space we already have plus his salary savings, we can sign some guys that WANT to play here. It's really pretty simple guys. Just look at Gordon's facial expressions or lack of during his interviews with Jen. So before you bad mouth me, how's about directing your energies at the source of the problem if for no other reason for his teammates and the fans. After all it was Gordon who said his heart wasn't in New Orleans and had he not been a restricted free agent he would already have been gone!! Everyone is entitled to their opinion, BUT please wake up!

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Gordon still does have great value, regardless of injury the suns wanted to give him a max also but I'd still play it out til the end of the year let him get in his groove and destroy people then trade him for better value

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Originally Posted by HornetGuru

His 4th year is a player option and I don't see him turning down 15 million

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Unless he doesn't want to risk an injury in the final year with no insurance and wants a long term deal. Look at what Gerald Wallace did. He opted out and signed a long term deal so he would not have to worry about getting injured in the final year.

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Originally Posted by Tim Floyd

Unless he doesn't want to risk an injury in the final year with no insurance and wants a long term deal. Look at what Gerald Wallace did. He opted out and signed a long term deal so he would not have to worry about getting injured in the final year.

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If he still has injury problems in 4 years I see us making a trade before then

His name should be "irony."

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Originally Posted by Bee-Fense

I think there are more people worried about us being stuck paying max money to a guy that never sees the court than Eric wanting out.

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To a guy who sees the court and fails to score in double digits constantly you mean

To me, It's very hard to predict if EG will remain in New Orleans, but something and I can't explain it has me seeing Gordon in a Pacers uniform either this season or next. If nothing happens by this summer, I don't think anyhing will.

I have no idea what a trade to Indiana would look like, and I do not think Monty is going to give Rivers the starting SG position. (Just yet). FA and the draft may play into it. I thnik Indiana has some pieces that would fit in New Orleans and this past summer there was more than a little mutual interest between Gordon and the Pacers. Just a thought.

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Originally Posted by optimist

DO you understand that in 2 years he will leave and we'll end up with nothing in return, just like nothing for BD and nothing much for CP if I'm right and Gordon walks in 2 years. Surely please tell me you people have some brains. Get the best offer even if just draft picks and get rid of his way overpaid salary. Then with the cap space we already have plus his salary savings, we can sign some guys that WANT to play here. It's really pretty simple guys. Just look at Gordon's facial expressions or lack of during his interviews with Jen. So before you bad mouth me, how's about directing your energies at the source of the problem if for no other reason for his teammates and the fans. After all it was Gordon who said his heart wasn't in New Orleans and had he not been a restricted free agent he would already have been gone!! Everyone is entitled to their opinion, BUT please wake up!

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DO you understand you posted this exact message in another thread?

Such a pessimistic optimist. :rolleyes:

What is up with all these weird threads lately? :hihi: It's like they handed out bath salts at the last signing event or something.

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Originally Posted by Purple Haze

What is up with all these weird threads lately? :hihi: It's like they handed out bath salts at the last signing event or something.

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:hihi:

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Originally Posted by Purple Haze

What is up with all these weird threads lately? :hihi: It's like they handed out bath salts at the last signing event or something.

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It's the Molly's

GORDON! DAVIS! MY HEAD IS POUNDING BUT IT SMELLS SO GOOD!! :happy2:

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Originally Posted by Purple Haze

What is up with all these weird threads lately? :hihi: It's like they handed out bath salts at the last signing event or something.

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I caN sMelL ColORs

to be honest I want the guy traded, I feel that he will never live up to his max contract, and he doesn't do enough to be the cornerstone to carry us to contention. You see guys like derrick rose feverishly rehabbing every day and he comes out himself and says "I'm not coming back until I'm 110%" and their fans love it because they know that he will work his butt off until he reaches that point and that he wants to comeback more than anything. With Gordon everything is a guessing game, we don't even really know what the hell is wrong with him or even if he wants to be here or if he will remain here. He doesn't inspire hope for the franchise like a "cornerstone" should. I have other problems with his game too but I won't rant into that. But Inner_GI is right, he is here and while he is here we should hope for the best, it is no use cheering against the guy and by cheering against him we are cheering against the team because he is (supposed to be)a large part of the team

Actually IMO New Orleans has been one of those franchise that has been kinda blessed in terms of losing a star caliber player and somehow getting one in return.

We lost BD and that led to us getting CP3

Then we lost CP3 and that led to us landing Anthony Davis and Eric Gordon

But we still have 3 good years of Eric Gordon at least so lets not worry about this stuff now..... if need be we should start thinking about this stuff in 2015

You might as well change your handle to oxymoron.

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Originally Posted by NinthWardJay

Actually IMO New Orleans has been one of those franchise that has been kinda blessed in terms of losing a star caliber player and somehow getting one in return.

We lost BD and that led to us getting CP3

Then we lost CP3 and that led to us landing Anthony Davis and Eric Gordon

But we still have 3 good years of Eric Gordon at least so lets not worry about this stuff now..... if need be we should start thinking about this stuff in 2015

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Very true. Some franchises go years and years without getting another star player after losing one. A lot of that comes down to the FO as well though.

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Originally Posted by SeaLegs

Fitting name.

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if he's not good and plays bad, i believe we'll get around 15-17 million dollars for that 4th season in return. not too bad

Chicago fans feel like that because they aren't paranoid.

Is there any other fan base/team media that tries to off their as much as we Hornets fans do? We all seem like the guy that's always accusing his girlfriend of cheating because she said some other guy was cute on facebook. I mean, how many let's trade Gordon convos can we have on here? get over it, he's a Hornet/Pelican for now AND we are't trading GV,Lopez or Ryno for Brandon Jennings or Kobe....well at least I don't think we are

Optimist my fav poster.

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Originally Posted by Hornetnojersey

Is there any other fan base/team media that tries to off their as much as we Hornets fans do? We all seem like the guy that's always accusing his girlfriend of cheating because she said some other guy was cute on facebook. I mean, how many let's trade Gordon convos can we have on here? get over it, he's a Hornet/Pelican for now AND we are't trading GV,Lopez or Ryno for Brandon Jennings or Kobe....well at least I don't think we are

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Majority of the trades being discussed about trading EG is involving an expiring and draft pick(s). Only recently has this Jennings nonsense came up because he officially wants out. And people are finally facing the facts and reality hit that Gordon is causing more trouble than good

Optimist, .........

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No need to start a new thread everytime you feel like suggesting Gordon needs to be traded.

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Originally Posted by HunnyB

Optimist, .........

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No need to start a new thread everytime you feel like suggesting Gordon needs to be traded.

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His previous thread was already merged with one of the same topic so no need to begin a new one.

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Yeah but his thread gave excellent reasons...:hihi:

Let's just change this into an Oprah gif thread.

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Does this mean they want Rivers to be the starting SG?

No, Rivers is our future PG, if we move Gordon it will either be for SG or SF, we will draft whichever one it isn't and sign a center like pekovic, I just wish we could trade GV + gordon for Cousins and Tyreke and draft shabazz or otto porter and sign budinger

rivers/FA
Tyreke/Mason
Shabazz or Otto/Budinger
Unibrow/Ryno
Cousins/Lopez

or if we somehow could get mclemore move tyreke to the 3 and mclemore to the 2, i know it would give us less rebounding but with davis and cousins i think we would be absolutely fine

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Originally Posted by HornetGuru

No, Rivers is our future PG, if we move Gordon it will either be for SG or SF, we will draft whichever one it isn't and sign a center like pekovic, I just wish we could trade GV + gordon for Cousins and Tyreke and draft shabazz or otto porter and sign budinger

rivers/FA
Tyreke/Mason
Shabazz or Otto/Budinger
Unibrow/Ryno
Cousins/Lopez

or if we somehow could get mclemore move tyreke to the 3 and mclemore to the 2, i know it would give us less rebounding but with davis and cousins i think we would be absolutely fine

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You Dell himself? Cause you seem pretty sure.

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Originally Posted by smcgull

Does this mean they want Rivers to be the starting SG?

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Original article merely states that sources from other teams have indicated that we are open to listening to offers for Gordon. At this point, Gordon is our SG barring an offer we can't refuse.

Optimists multiple rants being merged in have taken the discussion a bit off track, but the real story of the article is some of the comments Gordon made in the interview NOT this "trade news" which really isn't any news.

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Originally Posted by Trell

You Dell himself? Cause you seem pretty sure.

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That's what I'm screamin'.

I've supported Gordon from day 1 through everything. I'm done, demps please trade mr glass ill drive him to the airport myself.

Eric not with the team at the Arena. Can't imagine his wrists hurt so bad he can't put a suit on.

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Originally Posted by Inner_GI

Eric not with the team at the Arena. Can't imagine his wrists hurt so bad he can't put a suit on.

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Packing?

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Originally Posted by Trell

You Dell himself? Cause you seem pretty sure.

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I'm not stating fact, just my opinion and what I think this is the most likely scenario to happen.