Anthony Davis requests trade, part 3

[Feed Your Head]

Some of you newer guys have asked if it was really that bad on this board when we were looking at KG. It really was. Even worse than it is now, lol.

And all the people saying not to trade Tatum+ for AD now wouod be saying not to trade Al+ for KG.

Now they'll quote me and say Tatum>>Al, and theyre right. But AD is 6 years younger than KG was, of course he will get a bigger haul.

This is crap. Jayson Tatum has 19 career playoff games as the number 1 option in his one year in the league, honestly the same could be said for Jaylen Brown. Anthony Davis has played in 13 playoff games in 6 seasons.

People are so quick to forget last season. These kids did this on their own this isn't Kobe riding Shaq this was Hayward and Irving down for the count and maybe we can win a few games and they went through the Eastern Conference like it was the NCAA tournament.

These guys are not prospects they are players.

Tatum and Jaylen were drafted by a team that knows what it is doing. The Pelicans roster has been disastrously put together for AD's entire career.

And trust me i understand what Tatum has done, me and SWC were the first posters pumping Tatum up as a potential top 5-10 player, I was one of the few Jaylen supporters going back to before the draft, Smart is my my 2nd favorite Celtic ever. But AD is a top 5 player, and is 25 years old. Dont give me the "this is crap" garbage.

[Turgon]

So, I made this list when we (Patriots fans) won the Superbowl.

Here's the new and updated version:


THE **** L.A. WEEK

Rams lose the Superbowl - DONE!
Lakers lose their locker room - DONE!
Lakers lose Anthony Davis - IN PROGRESS!
Lakers lose against the Celtics - SHORTLY!
Clippers lose against the Celtics - SHORTLY!
Lakers lose their playoff hopes - SOON!

[TA42]

That's hard to do since hes hardly ever on the court

Davis averages 68 games played a season.

That's pretty bad. Honestly. Better than I thought but really not impressed.

Now you're gonna add the year in and out playoff grind and somehow his injury history is supposed to disappear?

Hes the best big man in the game. Hes not a game changer as of thus moment. We know that because hasnt been.

Bro it's not that bad. I had that same thought too initially in that he's always hurt but he only missed 14 games the past two season (not including current train wreck year). Hell he's played more games the previous two seasons than Smart, Irving, Horford, Jaylen, Morris etc. Teams are finding it is better to rest guys during the year as you really only care that they're healthy for the playoffs.

Also please don't judge the Pelicans record as proof that he hasn't been a game changer. He's a three time All-NBA first team, three time all-defensive team, 5 time all-star, 3 times he led the league in blocks per game, etc....he's the definition of a game changer.

[Andrew McCeltic]

What happens is that you imagine the players leaving and think of their highlights and have trouble imagining that absence being filled because you have no memory of it.

You could take Horford, Morris and Tatum out of our frontcourt and add Davis to Theis, Baynes, and Ojeleye and we’d be better. He is that impactful.

[SmartWentCrazy]

Some of you newer guys have asked if it was really that bad on this board when we were looking at KG. It really was. Even worse than it is now, lol.

And all the people saying not to trade Tatum+ for AD now wouod be saying not to trade Al+ for KG.

Now they'll quote me and say Tatum>>Al, and theyre right. But AD is 6 years younger than KG was, of course he will get a bigger haul.

It's the internet and everyone is allowed to have an opinion, but those opinions are not created equally. Some of these guys make me want to stick ice picks into my scrotum every time they post. Just bad thinkers, with no ability to assess talent or think critically. Wouldn't be that bad if they weren't so loud about it. We need a junior varsity board where guys can get relegated to. Maybe at the end of the year, a couple of guys move up or down based on the previous year's performance like the EPL, lol.

Its **** painful at times...

Anthony Davis is going to be the best player in the league for 3-4 years soon. Some of these people arguing how we dont have to trade Tatum for him are blowing ny mind. The melt down these individuals will have when we trade Jaylen+Jayson+ all of our picks is to be fun to revisit afterwards.

[mwhis21]

Jaylen/MEM pick probably = Tatum in value..

First I’ve heard of there being bigger problems with Jaylen.. think he’s scapegoat for team struggles/rivalries..

Rozier/Jaylen/BOS 1st for Isaac/Bamba probably works for both teams.. we’d just need to follow up with a trade for a backup guard..

Parl's been against Jaylen for some time, people have yelled at him but I always trust Parl and I had the same feelings he did which I privately told him about.

Jaylen seems to have settled into his role quite well though so I think his value the last few months has sky rocketed.

Can you give me a quick synopsis, what did he say?

[greenroom31]

Is there really a debate happening about whether or not Anthony Davis is a good player? Really?

As for his durability, he's never played less than 61 games and the last two seasons he played 75 games each year... that's damn good in the current day and age of resting stars during 4 games in 5 nights stretches, etc.

[leper-con]

It's ---beginning -----to ----look----- a -----lot ----like -----Christmas (AD)

[leper-con]

Is there really a debate happening about whether or not Anthony Davis is a good player? Really?

As for his durability, he's never played less than 61 games and the last two seasons he played 75 games each year... that's damn good in the current day and age of resting stars during 4 games in 5 nights stretches, etc.

he can sit out the first tow months of the season for all I care.
We need him for the playoff run.

[hickfromfrenchlick]

Read on Twitter

LMAO at what AD thinks or likes ... so ready to see the NBA make an example of his brittle arse with regard to new ZERO tolerance tampering policies, let that be his legacy

WHAT A CHUMP

Yeah LMAO at what AD thinks.

Until he gets traded to Boston, Ainge blows his load and then AD bolts to LA in the offseason. Then people will care about what AD thinks as the reality of dark times ahead become reality. Now he is liking LA trade offers. And yet still, people here will trade everything for the dude. I haven't ever seen anything quite like it.

It is almost like these people are in denial. Might he change his mind? Sure anything can happen. Anything can happen also isn’t great and not what gets you to trade the farm.

I know I speak for a lot of posters here when I say that it's mindboggling to see you continually refuse to acknowledge that Davis is motivated to let word get out that he doesn't want to go to Boston because it's the only way he gets traded this week.

You are swallowing whole the message that AD doesn't want to play in Boston when the real message is that AD prefers to be traded this week. Fortunately, some people are getting the real message.

Why is it, do you think, that Ainge doesn't agree with you that Davis is unlikely to resign? Do you know better than him? You seem very sure of yourself that the best GM in the business is "in denial."

[ViperGTS]

From everything that's being reported Davis has no desire to come here. I'm sure Ainge will take the risk but you'd hate to have Davis for one year have him leave and then lose out on all your assets like Tatum and or brown.

Bingo. Just heard something dumb as rocks. Mannix: Sometime younhsve to separate what the people around the player want, what the agent wants, and what the player wants,”

WTF. As I stated earlier the AGENT DOES WHAT THE PLAYER WANTS. Unreal.

[hickfromfrenchlick]

From everything that's being reported Davis has no desire to come here. I'm sure Ainge will take the risk but you'd hate to have Davis for one year have him leave and then lose out on all your assets like Tatum and or brown.

Bingo. Just heard something dumb as rocks. Mannix: Sometime younhsve to separate what the people around the player want, what the agent wants, and what the player wants,”

WTF. As I stated earlier the AGENT DOES WHAT THE PLAYER WANTS. Unreal.

AND THE PLAYER WANTS TO PLAY THIS YEAR FOR HIS PREFERRED TEAM RATHER THAN SIT ON THE BENCH OF THE REST OF THE YEAR AND BE TRADED TO ANOTHER TEAM.

Unreal is right.

[Grooverider]

The NBA is truly an embarrassment. No professional league has this crap.

Yeah man we heard you the first time

You are on extremely thin ice.

[b3n]

Davis’s camp has clearly been doing everything it can to force him to the Lakers right now. All the reports about wanting to play in LA, the list of other teams he’ll play for not including Boston, what his father thinks about loyalty… it was all desperate BS that looks like it didn’t work. None of what has been reported will matter after February 7th. Moving on. After that, everything will continue to change based on injuries, lottery results and player/playoff successes. If New Orleans didn’t accept LAs offer today, it does not mean they will not accept it later or that we can now lowball them & e.g., not include Tatum. It would just mean that they used LAs desperation to help establish the trade market for AD, wisely waited for better offers and didn’t find one. However, they will find a better offer. Ainge would have included Tatum in a package for AD on January 28th if not for the Rose Rule. You take the risk of acquiring a player like AD and him leaving every single time. Possesion is 9/10 of the law.

[ViperGTS]

LMAO at what AD thinks or likes ... so ready to see the NBA make an example of his brittle arse with regard to new ZERO tolerance tampering policies, let that be his legacy

WHAT A CHUMP

Yeah LMAO at what AD thinks.

Until he gets traded to Boston, Ainge blows his load and then AD bolts to LA in the offseason. Then people will care about what AD thinks as the reality of dark times ahead become reality. Now he is liking LA trade offers. And yet still, people here will trade everything for the dude. I haven't ever seen anything quite like it.

It is almost like these people are in denial. Might he change his mind? Sure anything can happen. Anything can happen also isn’t great and not what gets you to trade the farm.

I know I speak for a lot of posters here when I say that it's mindboggling to see you continually refuse to acknowledge that Davis is motivated to let word get out that he doesn't want to go to Boston because it's the only way he gets traded this week.

You are swallowing whole the message that AD doesn't want to play in Boston when the real message is that AD prefers to be traded this week. Fortunately, some people are getting the real message.

Why is it, do you think, that Ainge doesn't agree with you that Davis is unlikely to resign? Do you know better than him? You seem very sure of yourself that the best GM in the business is "in denial."

That is pie in the sky BS. If he was open to anywhere he would wait until the offseason, and work with the Pels for the best deal and a place he would be open to. Helps him, and helps his former team. My supposition is he knows Boston might have a good package that NO might want. Thus he pushes for the trade now so he can get to LA without Boston being in the mix. Again, anything his agent does is what he wants to be done or he would fire him.

Problem is there are two sides here. I have stated a package of Brown OR Tatum plus whatever would be amenable in the current situation. Others want everything and the new practice facility thrown in as well.

[chrisab123]

Yeah man we heard you the first time

You are on extremely thin ice.

Banners still had the most epic exit.

[Turgon]

Some of you newer guys have asked if it was really that bad on this board when we were looking at KG. It really was. Even worse than it is now, lol.

And all the people saying not to trade Tatum+ for AD now wouod be saying not to trade Al+ for KG.

Now they'll quote me and say Tatum>>Al, and theyre right. But AD is 6 years younger than KG was, of course he will get a bigger haul.

It's the internet and everyone is allowed to have an opinion, but those opinions are not created equally. Some of these guys make me want to stick ice picks into my scrotum every time they post. Just bad thinkers, with no ability to assess talent or think critically. Wouldn't be that bad if they weren't so loud about it. We need a junior varsity board where guys can get relegated to. Maybe at the end of the year, a couple of guys move up or down based on the previous year's performance like the EPL, lol.

What if we added a special badge - like those team badges under our Avatar - stating "I got laid in the 80s" so we could at least have an idea who we're talking to?

[canman1971]

Yeah man we heard you the first time

You are on extremely thin ice.

What is wrong with you?

[ViperGTS]

From everything that's being reported Davis has no desire to come here. I'm sure Ainge will take the risk but you'd hate to have Davis for one year have him leave and then lose out on all your assets like Tatum and or brown.

Bingo. Just heard something dumb as rocks. Mannix: Sometime younhsve to separate what the people around the player want, what the agent wants, and what the player wants,”

WTF. As I stated earlier the AGENT DOES WHAT THE PLAYER WANTS. Unreal.

AND THE PLAYER WANTS TO PLAY THIS YEAR FOR HIS PREFERRED TEAM RATHER THAN SIT ON THE BENCH OF THE REST OF THE YEAR AND BE TRADED TO ANOTHER TEAM.

Unreal is right.

He didn't have to request a trade until the offseason. Why did he do it now? So he could put himself in a tough situation with his current teammates? I heard it was supposed to be a private request that became public. He could have said nothing and played out the year.

[K For Three]

Jaylen/MEM pick probably = Tatum in value..

First I’ve heard of there being bigger problems with Jaylen.. think he’s scapegoat for team struggles/rivalries..

Rozier/Jaylen/BOS 1st for Isaac/Bamba probably works for both teams.. we’d just need to follow up with a trade for a backup guard..

Parl's been against Jaylen for some time, people have yelled at him but I always trust Parl and I had the same feelings he did which I privately told him about.

Jaylen seems to have settled into his role quite well though so I think his value the last few months has sky rocketed.

Can you give me a quick synopsis, what did he say?

Who with Parliament? He was going off on Jaylen for some time saying he was not Celtics material and would not be here long term. If you backtrack in the Jaylen Brown thread it's all in there.
I got no doubt in my mind Brown really bothered Kyrie. People will blame Kyrie since it's the trendy thing to do, but we don't know what happened behind the scenes.

My female intuition so to speak has been rubbed the wrong way by Jaylen all season long, didn't happen last year. But I told Parl this privately.

I always maintained something happened behind the scenes that made Irving go mental himself. Morris shoving Jaylen was the icing on the cake. Irving publicly almost demanding he start next to Smart earlier in the year was further proof.

Just hoping all is well with Jaylen and the guys now.......they play fine but the second unit will always have some issues IMO and Gordon doesn't have a chance in hell with Jaylen/Rozier wanting the ball. People can bash Kyrie all they want, but Brown/Rozier are a million times more selfish on the court then Irving ever has been on this team.

Luckily Brown has been balling for a while now, part of me doesn't think he would even care if he was moved to NO. He wants stats and wants to be an all star. Has to all be kept quiet though since we can't let anyone think there is a problem with any of our guys.