re: Windhorst: Pels trying to get Willie into the room with KD

I can't believe there is a world where the fricking Pels are in rumors to acquire a top 5 player and I am fricking pissed

What a difference a year makes

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If Griff fricks up the chemistry of this locker room and the goodwill of Zion/BI/CJ toward this city chasing this motherfricker,

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I have my pitchfork and torch ready.

You are literally saying that in response to a situation created specifically because people on both sides can’t get out of their feels and egos and it’s spiraled out of control.

Sports has a TON of emotion and ego involved. Managing that is often the difference between bad and great organizations. Can be the difference between a dynasty and what is currently happening in Brooklyn.

And we SPECIFICALLY leaned into a model of culture building predicated on family/love/accountability/respect/camaraderie. If this was a team built like SA or MIA where the expectation is business only, it’d be different, but Griff has built this thing on family and trust and if you are someone bought in, betraying that isn’t just something you shrug off.

So I hope Griff is navigating this with the utmost sensitivity, cause the last thing we need is for someone like BI’s name to get out into these discussions and it to fall through, and now BI spends the rest of his time here knowing this team isn’t committed to him like he was and doesn’t think they can win with him.

Just a thought but if you think KD is about to go to Phoenix it’s in our best interest to ensure Phoenix pays the steepest price possible.

Pels may very well be a willing stalking horse here

Does Phoenix have a package that works straight up?

They would have to get a 3rd team involved I would imagine.

This doesn’t make any sense

Hopefully these guys are just wrong as they have been in the past when taking Pels front office

Hard pass. We have a solid young core that are bought in and gelled in the second half of the season. And a budding superstar in Zion to add to the mix. Durant would come in and frick it all up no doubt.

Get word out you’re serious about winning maybe, but don’t mess with the chemistry making guys think they’re expendable.

God fricking damnit, our future was looking sooo bright and fun. I just keep wondering how the frick we got here.

The fact he has 4 years on his deal and is demanding a trade from a team he willingly joined and got his buddies to pair with him...scares the shite out of me. That greatly lowers his value.

Yes, I will admit that adding him gives us a lot of potential to win a title...but it also gives us potential to royally frick over our future for a 2 year window before we have to blow it up like Brooklyn.