Is it? What has Holiday done in the last 4 years for this organization? He's been hurt, often played sparingly when his status was up in the air, and took his sweet arse time to the start of last season when we absolutely needed him.

The team supported all of everything, marketed him to appease his little ego, and isn't even being considered in the offseason by Holiday. It's a pretty shite move.

Consider, Paul George is at least telling the Pacers now. If the Pelicans had known last season Holiday was going to completely leverage the Pels to leave in the offseason, there's likely zero chance he's still on the team. But he didn't cause he's simply not "max no matter what good".

But from a matter of straight line perspective, Holiday is screwing the Pels way more than George did, and he may not even be done.

What if he goes into the offseason and drags the Pels along for the ride, using their offer as a baseline for where he wants to be? Is it THAT improbable of a scenario right now? The Pels being days behind other teams in Free Agency to make him happy? What if the team doesn't meet with other players to try to show Holiday love? These aren't ridiculous scenarios and Holiday knows what he's doing as much as Demps is dumb for getting played.

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Posted by Colonel Flagg

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Member since Apr 2010

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Posted on 6/19/17 at 11:39 pm to ShamelessPel

I think the Pels deserve a certain amount of loyalty from Holiday if the offer they give is fair and in the ball park of the market. I don't know if they will get it.

This post was edited on 6/19/17 at 11:40 pm

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Posted by corndeaux

Member since Sep 2009

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Posted on 6/20/17 at 7:06 am to ShamelessPel

you're forgetting a couple of things:

the FREE part of free agency

the Pels appear to have ignored doctor's orders for a minutes limit during his 2nd year here, perhaps causing further setbacks for Holiday

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What if he goes into the offseason and drags the Pels along for the ride

what if the team paid Demps and the front office to come up with contingency plans? or paid them to communicate with players and their agents regularly throughout the year?

what if Holiday has told them for the past year that he wants to test the market?

or what if he told them at exit interviews that he wasn't thrilled with his new role as 3rd banana and more of an off ball player in the offense?

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