re: Kerr: Davis Trade Bad For League

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So Durant leaves OKC and goes to GSW, OKC gets nothing, GSW gets Durant.

AD tells his team he wants to be traded and won't resign, and Pels get booku return for their superstar, instead of him leaving for nothing like Durant did with OKC.

If anyone did it wrong, it was Durant leaving OKC and leaving them with nothing. Must be real nice to lose your superstar the "right way" via free agency, not have cap space, yet still get an allstar in return via "free agency" Steve.

Shut up Steve.

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Regardless of the outcome, do you think what AD did was better than what Durant did? If you sign a contract you should fulfill the requirements of that contract. If you want to have a private conversation with the team you have a contract with and let them know that you won't be staying, that's great, but not a requirement. Requesting a trade, especially in the middle of a season shows that you aren't living up to your end of the bargain, and aren't fully focused on the team that you're currently on. Both Kawhi and Durant left their respective teams this offseason, but no one is going to say that they didn't give it their all when they were on those teams.

Did the Pels end up better because of how AD went about this situation? Yes, but how he handled the situation was shitty.

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do you think what AD did was better than what Durant did?

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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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Both Kawhi and Durant left their respective teams this offseason, but no one is going to say that they didn't give it their all when they were on those teams.

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Well they also had something to play for. AD isn't good enough to get his team in a position to play for something special, so it was no big deal for him to quit caring in his eyes.

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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.

My spitballed idea for handling this is that a player who forcefully requests a trade can have his Bird rights terminated.

He can be traded anywhere he wants but whoever gets him better have the cap space to re-sign him when that contract expires.


I’m sure people will be able to poke holes in that one but the general idea is to make it that much harder for the player’s chosen destination to be able to keep them by putting them on a level playing field with other teams instead of giving them an advantage.

Well said!

He’s not wrong

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It's actually funny because the Lebron timeline gave us the best leverage.

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Luckily Griff > Pelinka, and we had leverage on our side, otherwise things could’ve got ugly.

First post but yeah he's right. Bigger problem is Paul George requesting a trade his first year of his 4 year contract. This will be discussed in the new CBA

Falk AD!