Milwaukee didn't have the trade pieces to be a realistic destination and getting traded to New York would have done nothing to help AD's chances of winning this past season, so why the rush? The timing of everything is why I still think this was as much or more about LeBron as it was AD. Even if Rich Paul was trying to get other teams involved, the leaks indicate the Lakers were the preference.

There is nothing wrong with Klutch wanting to pair their top 2 clients together on the highest profile team in the league. But if this was just about getting AD away from a bad franchise, they wouldn't have tried to make it happen before Boston could get involved.

It feels like you're knighting for Klutch the way Chad knights for the Benson's. We can't even call them 5% evil without you feeling a correction needs to be made. You think we're being too emotional when characterizing them, and maybe we are, but just because we're too emotional doesn't mean they aren't at least 5% evil.

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Posted by cgrand

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Posted on 5/19/19 at 12:06 pm to TigerinATL

yes I believe the intention was to pair Davis with Lebron as it immediately solved the biggest issues with both of his biggest clients. It was a 2 birds with one stone maneuver that if you are klutch you HAVE to try.

hey it almost worked. I feel strongly that if LAL has Tatum instead of ball that trade gets done before the deadline. In hindsight that would be been a bad play but we can’t apply today’s knowledge to that.

It’s really mostly unbelievable that the org is in the place it’s in now. It feels like a dream almost. I’m going to enjoy the good news and trust griffin to do what’s best

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Posted by ThePistol

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Posted on 5/19/19 at 12:14 pm to TigerinATL

I’ve been on board with a lot of what Crewz has been saying but I can’t get behind the way Klutch handled the AD trade demand. I won’t go into what the motives were other than getting AD out (partly because I am self aware enough to know my hatred of Lebron clouds my judgement). However, they mismanaged this thing from the perspective of their clients. They assumed they had leverage that they didn’t have. It wasted a season of AD in his prime, it destroyed a season for the Pels, and it seems to have triggered the Lakers falling into a downward spiral.

Now, as someone else said, all is well that ends well. Klutch’s handling of the situation seems to have triggered the Pels heading into the right direction more quickly than any of us could have hoped for, with a little assist from #lottoluck.

I have despised Klutch Sports since before AD ever signed with them for the way they held Cleveland hostage every year and just the way Lebron has handled his career in general. I do think they are smart enough to realize that the situation is drastically different than it was before February. This gives me the slightest of hope that AD may stay and actually be happy. We shall see.

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