Could all the Peja trade rumors bring him back?

Bibby_Is_Clutch

Bibby_Is_Clutch

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I just had a thought, probably an unrealistic one seing is how he already said he didnt want to be here but, we are hearing trades that would send him to either LA (might make playoffs 50/50) or the Bobcats (Couple years to build).... or he could stay with the Kings, suck it up and play for us, who most likely will make the playoffs unless we somehow lose chris and mike.

Sure, hes had half a season to rethink his pre-season requests to be traded but maybe he will be rethinking it now. I know he wants to win a championship, as do all players but I doubt he would want to go to LA and wait a few years or longer before they are contenders or go to the Bobcats and wait a long while. We may only have this year and possibly next to win a championship before our window closes for at least 2-5 years so why wouldnt he stay. There are probably a million old threads on this but wouldnt these trade talks change his mind?

Im hoping they do, and if they do I hope he doesnt end up getting traded and returns to his old self of last year. But if he doesnt, then I hope he gets traded and I hope we can get whatever we can for him, especially if hes going to leave at the end of the year anyways.

Is this a little too good to be true and does he still want out or could this change him? Thoughts?
 
Thoughts? To be brutally honest, I really don't care at this point what Pedja wants or doesn't want. It's not up to him. It is solely in the hands of Geoff Petrie. If Pedja didn't want to be considered for a trade, he shouldn't have said anything this last summer. I'm really getting tired and weary of acting like Pedja is a victim. Don't get me wrong. I like Predrag Stojakovic. I have loved watching him in a KIngs uniform and I will continue to root for him as long as he's here. But all this stuff about what he wants, how he'll feel, etc. have given me a really big headache. He's no different than any other player, and most of the other ones haven't made a very public announcement about not wanting to play for our team any longer.

If he says, he says. If he goes, he goes. Geoff Petrie will make the decision and he'll do what's right for this team.

62 hours, 21 minutes and counting.
 
I also wonder if Peja goes online to this board and other boards and reads how much people do/don't like him. So if he does maybe that could sway his mind.
 
Shadowlude said:
So if he does maybe that could sway his mind.
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If so... this will make him even less motivated. Pedja is a grown-up man. Being in the league for seven years, he should know how to deal with rumors.
 
Shadowlude said:
I also wonder if Peja goes online to this board and other boards and reads how much people do/don't like him. So if he does maybe that could sway his mind.
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I doubt he cares what we think, he knows the fans love him yet he still asked to leave Sac over the summer.

Im just wondering how he is viewing these rumors and what not. Im not saying he has any impact on whether or not he will be traded but I wonder if he will feel different or 'lucky' if he doesnt get traded to IMO crappy teams and gets to stay with Sac, after seeing how good they have and could be this year.
 
People do like him. What they, meaning me in at least this instance, DON'T like is how some people have come to our board and tried to make it all about Pedja at the expense of other players.

We have a large number of Pedja fans and the majority of them are fair, balanced and objective. A very few are not, and it just gets very tiresome after a while.

We have a lot of members who have been Kings fans since 1985. They have seen players come and go; some they waved a fond farewell to and others they were, quite frankly, willing to drive to the airport to make sure they left. Through it all, however, we have been KINGS fans. That doesn't change.

The whole thing is that nothing is in Pedja's hands right now. He is an employee of the Kings organization. He has a contract. He should be honoring that contract to the best of his ability. Some of his more rabid fans are hinting that he's not happy so he's not playing up to his abilities. IF that is true, then he's guilty of fraud or accepting money under false pretenses and I, and most others, quite frankly don't think that is the case.

Geoff Petrie will do what's right for the organization. If Pedja leaves, it will be because Petrie thinks the Kings' needs can be best served with other players. If he stays, it will be because Petrie really and truly thinks he can still be a productive member of this team.

We have supported Pedja from day one. We want him to do well and thrive and we certainly aren't in a hurry to get rid of him because we hold a grudge against him or anything, contrary to what you may have read from a small number of posters.

For the record, a few players occasionally browse boards but for the most part, they don't need to come here to read about trades, etc. They can wait and hear it all on Grant's show.

;)
 
VF, thanks for all your supportive words about our Kings, they are always appreciated by me. :)

Hey Bibby Is Clutch, rumor (or not, can't remember) was before the season started that Peja wanted to go to Celtics, so don't think he is as interested in being on a championship-bound team as some may think. Which is not to say he doesn't want to be on a championship team. But he might not, or he might. ;)
 
VF21 said:
For the record, a few players occasionally browse boards but for the most part, they don't need to come here to read about trades, etc. They can wait and hear it all on Grant's show.

;)
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Supposedly Peja listens on his way to the game, as well as Vlade did when he was here. I know for a fact that Tag listens, because he calls in unannounced. But they'd be better off reading this forum. :)
 
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Could all the rumours bring Peja back ?...well, if his mind is really set on this (getting/wanting trade), no way. This is a business decision, in my opinion having nothing to do with his sentiments for the team, fans, players etc....he's practically in his contract year, this is the most important aspect of the story if one wants to get to the bottom of it. Needless to say that these things are carefully planned and rarely do you see people, serious people, have "second thoughts" or changing their overall strategy so dramatically in the midst of a situation...his mind was set the day he and his agents first broke the "wanna get traded" story...to me, the real question was and still is, did those trade demands of his came with several of "ok, but if...", "off-record" of course...
My opinion is Petrie won't trade Peja yet because this could turn out to be a non-win game for Geoff, all his sents aside...there are probably 10 or 15 things Geoff will try to pull before he pulls the trigger on Peja ;)
 
Bibby_Is_Clutch said:
I doubt he cares what we think, he knows the fans love him yet he still asked to leave Sac over the summer.
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I do not think so. Every player likes to be "liked" by fans. It is a human nature. "His asking to leave" has absolutely nothing to do with Kings fans. Pedja had /has to deal with fans in Serbia, and Greace. He know how good the Kings fans have been to him - even if only by watching in what way they treated Webber last season.

This is business first - wheather we like it or not.
 
Doubt It ....

If anything, it makes it much clearer what fans/people are thinking about him. With what we've seen/witnessed of his personality .... could become MORE WITHDRAWN.

Then again, I could be totally wrong ... I hope I'm wrong and Peja comes out pi$$-n-vinegar and kickin' some a$$ !!!
 
piksi said:
I do not think so. Every player likes to be "liked" by fans. It is a human nature. "His asking to leave" has absolutely nothing to do with Kings fans. Pedja had /has to deal with fans in Serbia, and Greace. He know how good the Kings fans have been to him - even if only by watching in what way they treated Webber last season.

This is business first - wheather we like it or not.
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Im talking about what we think about his trade and what we think he should do. Of course he wants to be liked, etc but Im sure when it comes to being traded it becomes all buisness and he does whats best for Peja and his family and not his fans. Not to sound like he doesnt care but he must think about his family before he thinks about our reaction.
 
The fact that Peja is not playing tonight after all that rest and amidst all the trade rumours is a little unsettling. I don't buy into the whole His body language says he doesn't want to be here theory, but he is missing a lot of games. It could be nothing, then again it could be a guy who's getting ready to leave. Peter Vescey is reporting that Pejas agent has been told by the team that Peja will be dealt by the trade deadline. Now PV isn't the most reliable source, and it could just be Pejas agent jockeying for position but I'm really starting to feel that Peja will be traded, I can't quite put my finger on it but something seems wrong...
 
Viper rarely knows much of anything for a fact, but actually naming his source is a novel approach for him.

Still could just be the agent trying to make it happen, but that alone would probably tell the tale right there of Peja's feelings in the matter.
 
Bricklayer said:
Still could just be the agent trying to make it happen, but that alone would probably tell the tale right there of Peja's feelings in the matter.
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My thoughts exactly.^
 
are you asking if these trade rumors will change Peja's performance?

if thats what you are asking i think yes it will...and either way...if Peja does get traded to whatever team i really expect him to have a great 2nd half of the season with team x...if he stays i really think he'll finally blast off this year...i think its enough to get him fired up...a lot of people might say it'd prolly get in his head too much and he'd be thinking about it too much but i think it would really fire him up...just a hunch

can't wait for thursday...its gonna be very interesting...not just for the kings but for other teams involved in trade rumors...i mean every year there are like 456545 different trade rumors circling and out of all them like 1 goes through MAYBE 2...and the big one last year was Rasheed to Detroit...it did involve other guys moving but no one as noteworthy as Rasheed
 
I doubt the trade rumors will change Stojakovic's performance at all, unfortunately. If he improves over the first half of this year, it will probably be due to better health rather than a different attitude. If his heart wasn't 100% in it, as it appears it wasn't, then he has already had the chance to fight through it and not let those feelings affect his game. Not much is different now than it was at the beginning of this season.
 
Bricklayer said:
Viper rarely knows much of anything for a fact, but actually naming his source is a novel approach for him.

Still could just be the agent trying to make it happen, but that alone would probably tell the tale right there of Peja's feelings in the matter.
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Yeah, I guess that's the real concern. If Peja wants out that badly it is pretty worrisome. If he is still hurting after the rest it is worrisome. Either way, I agree with you & KP that something is not feeling great right now. I have been buying into the "chemistry's great, we're doing fine" bit, but if Peja's sitting out is a ploy to get traded then he obviously doesn't want to be here. And, I guess that's fine. I still say you have to keep him unless you can trade him for equal value, and I don't think that trading him to the Lakers is a good plan. But, keeping him if he's that serious about not wanting to be there, then it brings it's own set of problems. Like, can you play your best if your hearts not it?? So far this season Peja's play hasn't been outstanding. Don't know what the reason is, but if it's because his heart isn't in it, just where does that leave us?
 
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