Exclusive Woj - Anthony Davis has Requested a Trade.

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  1. Scalma

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    Btw this might actually mean the pelicans are motivated to trade him ASAP. Not sure they wait for Boston. And who’s stopping them from finding out right now whether Boston would give up Tatum anyway? Because if Tatum is a no go, they may as well just trade AD now.
     
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    Yeah but Boston has no reason to tell them the truth now. They get what they want by saying sure. They can still offer a better package than LA without Tatum imo and can always say they changed their mind about trading Tatum.
     
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    I think that a trade of CJ, Nurk and Harkless plus a future 1st in exchange for AD and Mirotic makes sense. It’s as good a package as Pels would get.

    For Portland, this may attract Klay Thompson this Summer - we’d be looking strong for 3/4 years.

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    With pretty much our current bench - which have been playing great. Bringing in Aminu off the bench adds depth to it.
     
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    We wouldnt have cap space for Klay, and we definitely arent getting him to leave GS for us.
     
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    I know what Woj said has been posted elsewhere.....but I love hearing him say it!

     
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    For the sake of their fans, I hope the Pels hang tough until they get a decent offer. My sympathies are not with AD or the :hairout::curse: Lakers!
     
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    Radio guys this morning said that with Zion being in the draft this year, the Pels would be foolish to not wait at least until the lottery to find out if whoever gets the #1 pick would be willing to offer it up in exchange for AD.

    Personally, I think whoever gets the #1 pick would be foolish to offer it up for anything.
     
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    I don't get why people keep saying that. Zion is a marketing dream and you'd have control of him for at least 5 years. Why would any of the bad teams give him up for possibly just one year of AD at that point? Anyone who suggests that as an option loses credibility in my opinion.
     
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    Agreed. I don't follow NCAA at all. But even I know it would be absolutely STUPID to trade Zion for Davis. Not even Zeke would be so dumb.
     
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    Agreed. AD's agent got fined for saying Davis would only re-sign with the Lakers. The longer he stays with a team, the more likely he may re-sign somewhere else. To go to the dumpster fire's that are the Cavs, Bulls, Suns, Knicks...he would be gone in 1 year with the possible exception of the Knicks if they were to acquire someone like Durant.
     
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    The only team that would trade the #1 pick for AD is NY. And Woj/Lowe reported this morning that the trade would pretty much just be Zion for AD so that they could pair Davis with Porzingis.

    I could see that.
     
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    Why would that motivate them to deal asap? If they don't trade him and sit him out, they will likely fall in the standings and pick up a better lottery pick and then trade Davis in the off season which will likely garner better offers than they will receive before the deadline. Win win for the Pels. Better lottery pick and a better package in return.
     
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    I would not trade Zion for anyone.
     
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    If I'm New Orleans and he says he wouldn't stay with the team they trade him to (outside of the Lakers), I'd just sit his ass down for the rest of this year and next year. He's submarining their trade efforts.
     
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    Picks are always worth more as a prospect than they are after the draft. We overrate the unknown. It's the same reason we turned down KG for the #1 pick (Oden) like it was a laughable offer, but an established superstar in his prime turned out to be better in the short term AND in the long run.

    We don't know yet which side of that equation Zion will fall on, so it isn't ludicrous for a team to prefer the safe bet (AD), if they think they can retain him.
     
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    No way he’s traded before deadline imo. There is zero reason for NO to expedite a trade.
     
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    Also, AD just lost out on his SuperMax but will he really turn down an extra year and 50 mil(5yr/200ish mil) if he likes the team he’s traded to just to be a Laker(4yr/150ish mil)? Especially with the injury history? I don’t know, if he does Lebron has to be his fucking hero or something.
     
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    Hindsight is 20/20. It WAS a laughable offer at the time.
     
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    If he doesn't end up in Portland, I kind of hope the L@kers trade all their young talent and future draft picks for him, then they don't make the playoffs, LeBron retires, and AD is stuck in LA with no talent during his peak window.

    The reality is that no team is going to take Ball in trade as it would be pretty clear he would just resign with the Purple and Piss the first chance he got.
     
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