re: Kerr: Davis Trade Bad For League

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100% yes i think what he did was better, for the Pelicans. OKC got nothing. We got Ingram, Ball, Hart, Hayes, Alexander, Didi, and more, including extra cap space to sign Reddick and Favors.

Of course what he did was pretty unprofessional, and word that he wanted out should have been known to no one but the Pels and AD, and if the Pels wanted to let that news out so they could trade him, so be it. It's obvious why AD did what he did, b/c he wanted to go to the Lakers and not the Celtics.

He wanted out. I know he signed a contract. Contracts work both ways. He can want out. The team can want him out. There's a professional way to ask out, and there's the AD way to do it.
If you said that a team signs a player and isn't allowed to trade him until the contract runs out, then i'd agree that players shouldn't be able to ask to be traded when they want.

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The reason that he did what he did when he did it, wasn't a favor to the team. It was because it was the only way that he could get to the Lakers. They weren't throwing away another of LeBron's last years. So it was either, get traded there this offseason (or during last season), or never get there.

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If you said that a team signs a player and isn't allowed to trade him until the contract runs out, then i'd agree that players shouldn't be able to ask to be traded when they want.

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The team controls the contract once it's signed, not the player. Now, if you want to say that it shouldn't work that way, fine. But, that's something that would have to be negotiated in the CBA. As it currently stands, once the contract is signed the team is in control of it. If they want to waive the player and grant them release from the contract they can, if they want to trade the contract, they can, if they want to keep the contract, they can. Unless it's written into the contract that there is a no-trade clause, the team can do with it as they see fit. No one currently has a no-trade contract, by the way.

I think it may be interesting if there was some sort of language in the future CBA that doesn't allow for trades of players unless they are either in their last year of their contract, or if both the player and the team agree to the trade.