re: Zion reached out to CJ

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Where is he going to find greener grass than Willie Green, CJ, BI, Herb and JV?

If the Knicks trade for him it's not like they'd have enough leftover to trade for Dame too.

I think it will all work itself out in the end because there really isn't a better choice for him than the Pels. But we won't be able to move forward until he's healthy enough to play.

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This is only if you assume his decision is based on his best opportunity to win. He wanted NY coming into the draft. Nobody thought the Knicks were a good organization. Thats why we only hear about their market.

Guys would go to San Antonio or OKC if they cared about good organizations or franchises that could build a winner.

Right. It was 100% about fame, star power, endorsement power.

He knew that in NYC he could make himself a billionaire off of endorsements if he was any good.

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I also think people are forgetting he posted stuff about CJ on social media the day of the trade. All three of his recent Twitter posts have been CJ related.

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he's retweeted Pelicans stuff all year, especially about Jose and Herb and BI, and recently CJ.

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One thing the NFL gets right is you never hear people whining that KC isn't a big enough market for Mahomes. Or Manning in Indy, Brees in NOLA, Favre/Rodgers in GB. Lawrence was supposedly on of the best prospects since Luck and not once did I hear people question whether or not the Jacksonville market was good enough for him. You can't watch an NBA show without the hosts and ex players sounding like a marketing firm.

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I’m trying to understand the difference though, and how the NFL controls this.

Is it simply because the NBA is a much smaller league, and much more dependent on star players?

Zion is full of it. He only reached out because he was getting called out about it. He’s been showing us that he doesn’t want to be here. JJ even basically confirmed that he’s all about himself.

I think that the evidence that Zion wants out is very slim. The evidence that he's immature and unprofessional and lazy -- that's overwhelming.

I am absolutely not sold on the idea that he would have always been under 250 pounds, if only he were in NYC.

Zion’s shoe dropped today and he decided to care about the Pels for 5 minutes.

Coincidence? If you think so, I have some magic beans to sell you.

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he's immature and unprofessional

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This is 99% of it. Like JJ said, guys have to learn to be a leader, it doesn't come natural and is very rare for 19 year olds to be a leader.

The unprofessional part is he may feel since he's not the leader of the team, he shouldn't have to welcome anyone.

timing is interesting isn't it.

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I’m trying to understand the difference though, and how the NFL controls this.

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You just saw the 10-7 Bengals make it to the superbowl and almost win it. (and people did question if Burrow should actually play for them)
You saw the Giants win the superbowl with a 9-7 and a 10-6 record. Packers and Ravens won it at 10-6. other teams have made it there at 9-7 and 10-6.


There's been 13 different Super bowl champs in the last 16 years, and 6 more teams that have played in it in that time frame that haven't won one. That's 19 different NFL teams that have played for the superbowl in the last 16 years.

Lebron and/or the Lakers have been in the Finals 13 of the last 15 years.
6 teams have won the finals outside of those two in the last 15 years, and two of them were in the last 3 years.
we pretty much know every year who's going to win the finals in the NBA. There's only been 14 teams that have won the NBA finals in the last 42 years, counting Lebron's (Heat/Cavs teams as 1), and before the last 3 years with Toronto and Milwaukee winning, every team that has won a championship since 1984 has won mulitple titles in that time frame.