mademan wrote:OkcSinceSGA wrote:EmpireFalls wrote:That doesn’t mean he’s leaving. It means that he’s going to use other teams to secure a max deal from the Clippers.
Not happening. If so the Clippers are toast. Clearly they’ve been negotiating a year. If the Clippers cave now they are stupid. It will mean in a year they would lose Mann and Zubac. Mann and Zubac should be traded for whatever picks you can get and let PG+Harden walk for nothing. Take the L, get into reload sooner.
In what world is Paul George walking better for LA then paying him and trading him in 6 months? He should just do what he did with OKC. Take a 4 year contract with LAC with max raises with the understanding that he'll be gone by the TDL. He gets his money, they get some value
why would it make sense for George to take a max contract from the Clippers with knowledge that they will ship him anywhere they want instead of taking the max from another team of his choosing? Yes, his current list of suitors is limited, but at least he would decide his destination. What you're describing sounds a lot like what happened to Blake Griffin... howd that turn out?