re: Pelicans are not expected to offer BI extension this offseason, moving in new direction

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Midseason is always different from offseason in both assets available and cap space to work with.

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Or another way to look at it...from all reports around the deadline, it seems Herb was the sticking point on a Pels trade. So again, it wasn't that Murray had no value, ATL just couldn't extract what they wanted from NO with Herb being the guy they wanted.


So then, from the trade deadline on, look how Murray played vs what BI did. One dude did probably incrementally increase his value while the other incrementally lost a little value.



The difference is in the margins, and maybe the Pels would view those incremental changes and maybe they were on the fence about adding Herb, and now they decide they will.


Again, not saying we should or have to do THIS deal, but just throwing out possibilities, and mainly, it's really not that bad of a deal. It's pretty close in value for both sides.