This is how I'm feeling right now:
I'm about 80% satisfied that we get AD because of the following reasons:
- we have the assets to beat the offers that are out there
- the list of teams don't have the assets that would interest the Pels. The Suns have Ayton and Booker, whom I'm sure would be quite the haul. However, once McDonogh gets Paul and Davis on the phone and asks them to sign an extension of some sort, they will dance out of it.
- Tobias Harris and SGA aren't enough for the Pels
- neither are Middleton, Brogdon and Maker. The draft picks the Bucks offer will also be in the mid-to-late 20s
- Lebron hates the Celtics, and Rich Paul is doing his best to make sure that we don't flourish
20% worried
- despite the fact that the rumors of AD not wanting to come here are likely smokescreens spread by Klutch, what if there is truth to them?
- Bulpett did write an article expressing how management was disappointed with how Kyrie handled the interview on Friday morning
- the Knicks, if they get the 1st pick, are likely to land AD, KD, Kyrie. Might even get the job done with the 2nd pick, as apparently the Pels don't want another instance of the Gordon/Kaman/Aminu press conference where all their assets are sad.
- Pels insider said that Tatum and Brown have both expressed to their agents that they don't want to be traded to New Orleans
- Pels, by taking on a rookie and some other young players, at least get a chance that some of these guys smile during the introductory press conference
