KG has apparently told

[Bricklayer]

KGs never realy demanded a trade. He's the star that SHOULD have demanded a trade....of Mchale as GM.


I'd really love to be able to go to Ainge right about now, Bibby in hand, and say here ya go, and you get to keep Jefferson + all the rest of the kids! We just want the pick, but that damn ETO is yet another thing biting in the ***.

 

[Gargamel]

Man I am so sick and tired of stars dictating where you can and cannot trade them. How can you demand a trade and then refuse to be traded anywhere except to one of the best 2 or 3 teams in the league?

Players w/ huge contracts have a de facto (in actuality) no trade clause. The contract alone limits the number of suitors because it's hard to balance salary rules w/ the number of roster spots being shuffled in the trade w/ the normal "who gets whom" questions.

Secondary to those concerns is when a superstar says he doesn't want to go somewhere, the suitor will listen. KG could opt out in a year or two, iirc. Remember the Hawks giving up a legit title shot in 94 by trading Nique for Manning only to have Manning bolt as a FA that Summer. That's only Danny Manning...imagine losing KG after giving up on Al Jefferson's potential.

Way it stands now is the players have the owners by the short hairs.

 

[Gargamel]

The Pippen debacle had to do with the fact that Pippen pulled a Vince Carter and just whined the whole time.

Pippen pulled a PIPPEN. This guy was severely underestimated for how cancerous he could be. In 1994, his best year, Pippen acted about 10 times more juvenile than Derrick Coleman did, but when you read articles on the spoiled brats of the league back then, they didn't include Pippen.

 

[uolj]

Nice.

So now do your best "I can be a GM" impression and tell me how they would really do it. I don't pay close enough attention to have thoughts on the subject, and I'm curious whether it would be hard to make Garnett & Pierce into contenders. If it wouldn't be, then Garnett is stupid for stopping that trade.

 

[Sac.Kings]

Pippen also said he was better than Jordan, to me a lot credibility goes flying through the window....