re: Per Zach Lowe: Pelicans added to teams that will pursue D Mitchell if no extension

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Most understand this is a business on both ends and if you were in the same position you’d attempt to use your leverage to.

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BI isn't AD or someone with that type of leverage.
and BI wants to make as much money as possible, and i don't say that's greedy b/c that's what 99% of people would do in his shoes.
You want $200M in Detroit for 4 years or you want $180M in Sacramento for 4 years? The answer: who gives a shite, i can live wherever i want half the year, i'd rather the 20 extra million dollars.

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Griff leaks to the press WG/BI spat and organizations intention not to sign him to a max (shite move … leaking to the press), next BI’s agent canvases league on who’s willing to pay max/near max dollars, BI canvases the list and rules out poverty franchises and selects list of teams who indicate willingness to pay, are well run and have a need at wing with a legit point. BI’s agent lets Griff know desired destinations and notifies others he would not extend creating a one year rental.

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So in this scenario, multiple teams are interested in giving him a max extension?
You do realize this creates competition, meaning those teams are competing against each other to give the best offer?

The Heat can want to give him a max extension all they want. If we don't like their offer of Herro/Jovic/20301st, then we aren't sending him there, regardless if that's where he wants to go.




Brandon Ingram has missed 18, 37 and 27 games the last 3 years. He is an injury proned player.
There's a very simple scenario where these are his options:
1. Sign a lower than max extension with the Cavs (or someone else good). They have given us the best offer and is our ideal trade partner.

2. Sign max extension with Detroit or Charlotte. They are the only teams that have given us a trade offer that we deem acceptable. We are not interested in the deals Miami, Orlando or the 76ers gave us and no one else was willing to give you a max extension.

3. Sign a lower than max extension with the Pels and play out next year. We can look to trade next offseason or move forward as a Pelican.

3. You can not sign anything, play another season with the Pels, and become an unrestricted free agent next offseason and go wherever you want that has the ability to sign you. Risk of catastrophic injury could cost you hundreds of millions of dollars by taking this route mr injury prone BI.



Do you see how the leverage is more on our side than his?
I think it is highly unlikely that he plays next year without signing an extension b/c of his injury history.
There aren't a ton of teams worth a shite that ever have cap space. even when you're a UFA looking for a max contract, a S&T has to happen if you're going to the team you really want to go to.

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Sign max extension with Detroit or Charlotte

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Not going to quibble over his value, but it might surprise a lot of folk. However, to your point, if he doesn’t want to go to a poverty franchise, he’d just indicate he would not sign an extension, the team would know its a rental and reconsider what they’d offer. Point being you’re not shipping him off to Siberia for some huge haul as some posters seem to believe.

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A few teams already, that will have cap space, are playoff caliber with solid points will likely express interest. Also likely that it’ll be a 3 way where Pels would aquire players at positions of need.

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The Sixers can't just sign BI with their cap space like they can Paul George.
BI isn't a free agent.
The Sixers cannot offer anything worthwhile to us in any scenario. They aren't even a contender to trade for BI.

The Magic have draft picks and some young players who don't move the needle for me. They would have to go get a player or two we want, and still give us picks.
Again, we aren't going to just trade him for shits and giggles. He's still under contract here, and as I said, i seriously doubt he wants to play another year without a new extension.


There are plenty other teams that can offer good deals to us. It'll be up to them agreeing with BI on his extension if we make a deal with them.

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If thats Pels intent to move on it should be amicable in the best interests of both parties. League and players for sure watch how teams conduct business.

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frick that. You'll go where it helps us the most, or you can keep playing here and make your decision next year on where YOU want to go, since you think BI has all these options available to him.
You think playoff teams are going to have cap space to sign him next offseason like the 76ers and Magic have this year? Even looking at this year if he was a unrestricted free agent, is he one of the top 2?
The Sixers and Magic are big game hunting.
Paul George
Jim Harden
Demar DeRozan
Klay Thompson
Siakam
all are UFA's, not to mention guys like MItchell/Garland are Dejounte/Trae who may get moved.
Is BI getting the max from a team with cap space? I highly doubt it, as it is much more likely he woudl go to a team that has to do a S&T basically.

He's not going to not sign an extension this offseason. He may get that max offer from a team he likes, and we like, but we are taking the best deal we can get. BI will find out what his worth is this offseason.