Originally Posted by
Taker597
The resigning process with Boogie was always rough from the start of that season and it really rubbed management the wrong way. It could be described as toxic. Then, the injury happened and Boogie was in the middle of a career year and breaking a lot of rebounding records and such. We just had to get over the Gentry Pre-Season hump and early season injuries. We try to resign him in April before free agency. Which was only two months from his injury. This is where the truth gets foggy, Always hear two sides of this story of it being known by Boogie that it was a take it or leave it in April. Boogie wanted to wait for free agency thinking the deal would still be there. It's just professional etiquette. The man was injured. The whole thing was really half hearted by the Pelicans and really wonder if they really had any intentions to signing him. Gave him a bad deal that he would turned down just to say "We tried". It still was hilarious how as a terrible organization that we was and still outbid ourselves on 2Yr 40MILLION. Granted, I don't remember if the contract was fully GTD. I believe it was really a one year deal. Then, free agency came and we completely ghosted Boogie. We already pull our deal off the table and got Julius Randle. Maybe it was a case of FO thinking they are better and know better. They where only half right.
It was really unnecessary to not let the man focus on his rehab, wait for free agency and let the market decide his value after a major injury. We would of win either way. After this incident with player relations, I knew the organization front office would be canned sooner than later. You don't operate like this unless a player does something really unacceptable. Especially, Boogie had a close relationship with AD. AD put on a front that "It's all business" but he did take it personal and began questioning a struggling organization.
This is all 2nd hand info. So, it can be a bunch of half truths and assumptions, but there is a lot of smoke In it.