He shouldn't be pissed. He's on his way out and this is what happens to big , expiring contracts. He won't be resigned though, even if he still is with the team.
He still have 2 years on his contract, he doesn't have an expiring deal at the end of this season, but rather a player option that he will most likely use if he is still here at that time. I do see where he would want to try to land a 5-7 year deal now at 28, rather than wait till his current contract expires in 2 years after this season and he is 30 years old.
It is never good when you have a big name player on the chopping block and have to take him off. Peja finding out he was traded by watching TV was just terrible. I really like that GP is trying to shake things up and is withdrawing from the AI hunt if he was being asked to give up too much for AI like KMart etc. The fact is we still need to make some moves as in getting a big man shot blocker/rebounder so AI isn't a huge necessity for us per say, we are solid at 1-3 at least starting wise, we need help at 4/5 at least in some decent backups besides Pot and Taylor. We do have a large $ amt of expiring contracts so I'm hopeful we can get someone here in the FA market, but then I hear that even with the expiring contracts we cannot get more than the MLE. Bibby is most likely going to walk and I'm all for a true PG to distribute to his teamates 1st before shooting.
Are we truely out of the talks? I really don't want us to take on Dal's big contract, but if we give Philly K9, then that's not bad and also if we don't have to give up KMart, at the least we should try to get Hunter.