re: Kevin Arnovitz doesn't think Jrue will re-sign with Pelicans

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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?

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As a basketball historian, you're smarter than how you're acting here. How often have teams chased top flight free agents at the same position as the main player they're courting?

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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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Yeah, I don't have much faith in Demps, but acting like the Pelicans are going to just chase Holiday around if he implied he's probably leaving as heavily as you just did...that's a special move even for Demps.

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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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Another fairy tale ending for someone on the team with the terrible medical staff. As much as it's easy and I even concur with the likelihood that our staff does suck, these guys are miraculously healthy in contract years. That has to go into your opinion when talking about our staff.

Blindly defend the guy. I really don't care. Ive said Demps was stupid if he gets played here.

Regarding the wife comment, how many times have you seen or heard of Lauren in this city, while Jrue has spent his time here doing charity work etc. She's not exactly a regular wife. Its not hard to connect the dots there. Jrue hasn't seemed unhappy here, yet his famous wife has noticeably been absent.