Pels not eager to trade Graham

What injury misfortune? Did Graham have some injury I don't know about?

Could be posturing to try and make it seem that they don't want to move him but reluctantly would.

Probably for the best. It’s a bad idea to trade him while his value is low. I think it’s a good call to see if they can recover his value in the 2022 season before deciding what to do with him. I think there’s a better chance you can recover his value vs realistically getting something better in return right now.

Bledsoe was someone who didn’t want to be there to begin with and resented being shipped out of Milwaukee IIRC.

Graham still has a role here if the team shapes up right. Just an overpaid one given his contract.

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Pels not eager to trade Graham

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These rumors are always useless because maybe it's 100% true and the Pels want to keep him around.

But if the Pels decided they wanted to get rid of him, this is also the exact rumors they'd put out to try anything to increase his value as much as they can.

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Graham still has a role here if the team shapes up right. Just an overpaid one given his contract.

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not really.
We obviously all love Jose, and he's going to be the backup PG, but his asset is pestering the opposing teams PG, and that would mean putting Graham on a SG, and he's incapable of guarding any SG in the league.

We need a legit backup SG. If Graham could play an ounce of defense, then he'd be fine, even being undersized, but he can't and therefore, we need someone capable of knocking down shots off the bench while not being a complete sieve on defense, and there's plenty of guys out there that can do that.

If Graham's offense was more in tune with what Jordan Clarkson and Will Barton and Tyler Herro do off the bench, then you'd be fine with it, but i'm not sure he can give you that kind of offense.

I’m guessing this also has something to do with Kira’s injury. We don’t know when he’ll return so holding on to Graham could be insurance. Jamal Murray couldn’t come back for the playoffs even after over a full year of recovery and Fultz took 14 months. I don’t expect Lewis to be back early in the 22 season.

This is kinda meaningless until we know our draft pick and what player we get.

And Graham at the deadline will be more valuable than before the season easily.

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The New Orleans Pelicans are not as motivated to trade Devonte' Graham this offseason as they were last year with Eric Bledsoe

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Also, this doesn’t suggest that they’re not eager to move him. Just that they’re not as eager as they were with Bledsoe, who they were desperate to get rid of.

Bledsoe was actively cancerous in the locker room with openly admitting to not giving a frick when he was supposed to provide leadership. You had to love him.

Graham just hasn’t played well but is a good locker room guy. He just makes too much for that so needs to start hitting shots so they can find an acceptable trade.

Hopefully they mean they aren’t willing to give up valuable assets to package him off somewhere but will trade him for something straight up.