Even if it's possible why would Beal do that. He's probably the 50th- 75th best player in the league but he's in top ten in pay and arguably the most powerful player in the league.FAH1223 wrote:payitforward wrote:The odds seem a lot higher than 80-20 at this point, i.e. a couple of days past your post, Zards. Yet, interestingly, it doesn't look like anyone wants to give very much for Brad.
That's no surprise for two reasons -- first off, it goes w/o saying that if the Wizards *must* move Brad, then people will be looking for a very very good deal.
But, I doubt that's the big reasons for low-grade offers.
Instead, I imagine, it's that idiotic no-trade clause -- which goes with him.
IOW, thinks a gm, if he's making it difficult for the Wiz to trade him, then he's going to make it difficult for me when I want to trade him.
Personally, i.e. if I were running things, I wouldn't trade him in that environment. In fact, I'd be playing hardball with him -- as he did in getting himself the no-trade provision. I'd be insisting that he modify the contract to remove that clause. Period. Otherwise he can look forward to a long slow close to his career while watching a constricted team try to build a winner through the draft over a period of several years.
As to "build a winner around BB," that's not even remotely possible.
Of all the players drafted from 2012 forward, only two have played more minutes than Brad: Damian Lillard & Harrison Barnes.
Brad's declining; it's not tragic, it's what you'd expect. & of course, as with any other player in his position, the decline will become steeper & quicker as he ages. That's not a judgment on Brad -- far from it! It's just Father Time doing his perpetual job.
Don't think that is possible according to the CBA
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