re: How badly has this playoff series damaged BI’s trade value?

It just simply isn’t an option to have BI in a diminished role. This coach and this front office put him out there as the face of the franchise. This was BI’s team coming into this season. They catered the new offense to him to start the season. We all saw BI’s behavior with a diminished role in the Laker game. It just doesn’t work to diminish a guy’s role in a contract year. You are asking for all sorts of trouble. The Pels have 2 options: extend him this summer or trade him.