peja will opt out

[jacobdrj]

Kinda funny how Artest and Peja are both linked: Both have mid leval contracts that ended this season, both kind of having attitudes (in no small way related to their contracts). Its like, spineless or crazy. Take your pick. Obveously Indy didn't have a choice in the matter, but I still find it kinda funny.

So what do you think Pejas next contract is going to look like? With the way the NBA is right now, I wouldn't be suprised to see him to to Chicago to get a max contract.

 

[Warhawk]

Kinda funny how Artest and Peja are both linked: Both have mid leval contracts that ended this season, both kind of having attitudes (in no small way related to their contracts). Its like, spineless or crazy. Take your pick. Obveously Indy didn't have a choice in the matter, but I still find it kinda funny.

So what do you think Pejas next contract is going to look like? With the way the NBA is right now, I wouldn't be suprised to see him to to Chicago to get a max contract.

Uh, Artest has 2 more years left on the existing contract, IIRC. Not the same at all, and one of the reasons to move Peja. We probably weren't going to resign him for what he'll draw, and we got a great player at a great price for 2.5 years in return.

 

[LilMissDiva]

Opt out all you want, but make that known by your action of opting out when the season is over. You don't need to say publicly "I'm going to opt", when there are still games to lay, nor do you need to do it PERIOD. Just do it, when the time come's.

He knows he can get more than 8 million. Opting out doesn't necessarily mean he wants to leave Indiana, it just means he wants to get more money. If Indiana make's a good offer he'll stay. If not, then Chicago would be a likely candidate.

Typed the words right off my keyboard.

 

[VF21]

I really need to get over the hurt feelings I still harbor against Peja because of his trade demand.

I like Predrag Stojakovic. I love his "Serbian lay-up" and I miss his lopsided grin. He was part of the team that took Kings fans to heights they had only vaguely imagined before. But then - all the drama and the ugliness and the trade "request."

I'm being totally and completely honest - it was a knife in my heart and, I felt, a slap in the face to every Kings fan when he said he'd rather play anywhere else than in the uniform of my beloved Kings.

I guess (again being TOTALLY honest) it's past time for me to quit picking at the scab and just let the wound heal.

Brickie was right and so was love_them_kings.

Sorry, fellow Kings fans.

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[bozzwell]

I really need to get over the hurt feelings I still harbor against Peja because of his trade demand.

I like Predrag Stojakovic. I love his "Serbian lay-up" and I miss his lopsided grin. He was part of the team that took Kings fans to heights they had only vaguely imagined before. But then - all the drama and the ugliness and the trade "request."

I'm being totally and completely honest - it was a knife in my heart and, I felt, a slap in the face to every Kings fan when he said he'd rather play anywhere else than in the uniform of my beloved Kings.

I guess (again being TOTALLY honest) it's past time for me to quit picking at the scab and just let the wound heal.

Brickie was right and so was love_them_kings.

Sorry, fellow Kings fans.

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It's perfectly normal how you feel. He did mess up at one point and he was never the same after that.

Like I keep saying, with the benefit of the hindsight, he was probably right at the time and he should have been traded when his value was at the absolute peek (coming off of the career year and with 2 years left on his contract).

 

[sloter]

Not at all sure what the fuss is about here. This is entirely 100% a standard sort of announcement that FA's in option years make every single season. OF COURSE he is going to opt out. That has been the well known situation for over a year now. Big whooptideedoo.

Good to see a member here still in touch with reality.

 

[sloter]

It's perfectly normal how you feel. He did mess up at one point and he was never the same after that.

Like I keep saying, with the benefit of the hindsight, he was probably right at the time and he should have been traded when his value was at the absolute peek (coming off of the career year and with 2 years left on his contract).

Yeah, if you think about it that way. He pretty much offered himself to be traded when his value was the highest and in that way he was almost doing Kings a favor by telling them to do so; it is really not his fault that the GM opted for trading Webber (even though many people here saw it that way).

Anyway, it's over now, and Pedja is still having a solid career. Even if he doesn't stay with the Pacers it is not a spineless move. He doesn't owe them anything, and when his contract is out he has the right to choose where he wants to go... On the other hand, if the Pacers want him that badly he will probably stay. It's a smart decision for him to opt out.

 

[VF21]

Yeah, if you think about it that way. He pretty much offered himself to be traded when his value was the highest and in that way he was almost doing Kings a favor by telling them to do so; it is really not his fault that the GM opted for trading Webber (even though many people here saw it that way).

Blech.

I'm sorry, sloter, but comments like those are exactly why I harbored a grudge against Peja for so long. It wasn't against him so much as against the Peja homers who had to twist everything to suit him in the best possible light.

He wasn't doing the Kings any bleeping favors. His feelings were hurt and he was lashing out. He was angry about how Vlade left the team and said so in numerous Serbian publications. He was hurt, angry, etc. He wasn't asking for a trade out of the goodness of his heart.

And in case you've forgotten, the Webber trade came SIX MONTHS later and it was done clearly because it was obvious there wasn't enough room on the team for both Webber and Peja. Petrie made a decision and put the future of the franchise with the core of Bibby, Miller and Peja and it damn near destroyed our team.

I've accepted things and moved on. What I haven't done is revised history...there were a lot of things going on and Peja was just as complicit in them as Webber was. But BOTTOM LINE for me is still that it's about the name on the front and not the name on the back.

GO KINGS!!!!!

 

[vj9999]

Vlade

Speaking of Vlade. He was in attendance when Pacers played the Bulls few nights ago. Chicago guys talked to him. Very insightful. Now I know that United Center has the best ice cream around the league

It always puts a smile on my face when I see Vlade (Eventhough he said he was in Chicago because he was on his way somewhere on east cost, scouting for the Fakers)

 

[bozzwell]

Speaking of Vlade. He was in attendance when Pacers played the Bulls few nights ago. Chicago guys talked to him. Very insightful. Now I know that United Center has the best ice cream around the league

It always puts a smile on my face when I see Vlade (Eventhough he said he was in Chicago because he was on his way somewhere on east cost, scouting for the Fakers)

Yeah, right that's the only reason. Nothing to do with partying on the NW-side.

 

[VF21]

It always puts a smile on my face when I see Vlade

Me, too. I really miss him...

 

[SacKings4Life21]

Yall remember when we could have traded Peja and christie for Artest an Harrington? lol.... makes me cry to think about it...

 

[sloter]

Blech.

I'm sorry, sloter, but comments like those are exactly why I harbored a grudge against Peja for so long. It wasn't against him so much as against the Peja homers who had to twist everything to suit him in the best possible light.

He wasn't doing the Kings any bleeping favors. His feelings were hurt and he was lashing out. He was angry about how Vlade left the team and said so in numerous Serbian publications. He was hurt, angry, etc. He wasn't asking for a trade out of the goodness of his heart.

And in case you've forgotten, the Webber trade came SIX MONTHS later and it was done clearly because it was obvious there wasn't enough room on the team for both Webber and Peja. Petrie made a decision and put the future of the franchise with the core of Bibby, Miller and Peja and it damn near destroyed our team.

I've accepted things and moved on. What I haven't done is revised history...there were a lot of things going on and Peja was just as complicit in them as Webber was. But BOTTOM LINE for me is still that it's about the name on the front and not the name on the back.

GO KINGS!!!!!

Which part exactly is revising history ? Would have the Kings been better off had they done what Pedja told them right away: to trade him at exactly the time he said ? Absolutely. He did not demand the trade, but he hinted that his heart was not there any more (if he ever had any).
Btw. if you think that trading Webber almost destroyed the team, just look where the Sixers are...

 

[VF21]

Btw. if you think that trading Webber almost destroyed the team, just look where the Sixers are...

My comment wasn't about Webber. It was about Petrie putting the Kings future in the hands of the "core" of Bibby, Peja and Miller. I stand by my comment that it nearly ruined our team.

 

[bozzwell]

Yall remember when we could have traded Peja and christie for Artest an Harrington? lol.... makes me cry to think about it...

Al Harrington is a bum. I wouldn't trade Jackie Chrisitie for him.

 

[LPKingsFan]

Forget the Harrington/Artest deal. We could have very well had Marion and Joe Johnson for a Peja/Christie package.