Where do you see this?
I would think PHX wants it to go through since it helps them financially.
I donât buy this BS and Ramona is a Lakers talking head that reads off a script.
EVERY news outlet said this was a high risk trade for Lakers due to injury history. Then Pelinka said that they looked extensively into medical records and werenât concerned.
This is the Lakers having 3 days to evaluate and getting cold feet. OR someoneâs agent called and said for that package I could get you âx playerâ in offseason and they were like oh that would be better.
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Well then if thatâs true, youâre saying that the lakers donât have actual grounds for terminating the deal. So that means the hornets FO needs to go at the lakers with litigation through the league.
If the lakers donât have medical basis for terminating, the onus is how on the hornets to prove the lakers concerns are insubstantial.
To be able to terminate, there has to be some real substantial stuff to refer to. Not just âehâ.
So the onus is now on the hornets FO to respond in part.
Edit: also, it doesnât matter about the âtalking headsâ and all that other stuff now. This significantly damages the perception of our organization, our front office, and has taken away significant assets for us (picks and Knecht). Also, it has stuck us with a player who is now UNTRADEABLE.
The hornets FO should be taking swift action to fight this and save face. The ramifications are huge.
The following response by the hornets front office will tell me a lot about what actually happened. If the lakers did something inappropriate, the hornets must respond in part. You canât be copacetic in this if something hinky happened on the lakers side.
If the hornets donât respond or act on some fashion, that tells a lot as wellâŚ
Our front office wonât go after the Lakers publicly. Thereâs no way anyone in the NBA will side with us versus them. I wish they would though!
I just hope Jeff and friends visit them on our trip out there and drop a few f-bombs in a suite to show we arenât a bunch of punks.
This is one of those rare occurrences where I think a new young GM just had his moment that welcomed him to the NBA. Sometimes you gotta show people they canât f*** with you and get away without any consequences.
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Like we just took our franchise center and shredded his value to pieces while at the same time severely damaging the chances of somehow working out an extension with him. I am pretty damn pissed off about it.
Yeah I agree. Our response to this matters quite a bit. Definitely a big eye opener for Jeffâs camp. They definitely need to respond in some fashion or another. How they do it will be the strategic part
I wonder how trades actually work. I wonder if it is like a real estate transaction where the seller has to provide property disclosure of all known issues. Like once it proceeds to after preliminary talks, both teams submit medical history known issues.
It doesnât seem like a good practice for trades to be vetoed post public announcement.
It would seem completely unfair for it to be voided on anything other than âthey didnât tell us about thatâ
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Yes. This. This beckons several possibilities. The list is in descending order of how bad they get, whereas number one is âyeah, thatâs sort of a bad lookâ to number 5 that says âthatâs a very very bad lookâ.
- lakers have a different opinion about something medical
- hornets were unaware of something medically concerning
- hornets withheld pertinent medical info
- lakers did actually get cold feet/buyers remorse and used vague excuses
- lakers were approached with the possibility of some buyout big man for a rental this season OR some better deal they could make in the off season for a big
THIS is exactly what I think the situation is. Of course the NBA doesnât give a shit about us so it is what it isâŚ
Yes same. This is absolutely devastating. The damage is significant. Which is why Iâm wanting to see the charlotte front office be proactive about teasing out what happened and why. In a very direct, transparent manner. To challenge it and hopefully save face
Weâll never knowbut i imagine itâs not totally unrealistic that Mark has issues that came up on a physical that we havenât tested for or werenât theretofore aware.
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I think you are correct.
Wasnât Caris LeVert determined to have cancer upon a physical during a trade 4-5 years ago or something?
So all the shit people talked about Jordanâs medical staff is even worse under this new regime⌠got it.
Some good news atleast, I might have to get a Moussa jersey
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Too bad we will still have to send him back to G league lol. No minutes for him here. We literally HAVE to play Mark and we probably have to play Nurkic or buy him out. Lol.
We are screwed. At least we have Lamelo.
Possibly! Unless the hornets or lakers divulge some real information we wonât know. Thatâs absolutely a possibility, our medical team still sucks.
I really hope that Peterson and co respond to this proactively and transparently. Because itâs a bad look on the hornets. And if the lakers really did something âfuckyâ, then let the record show it.
The hornets organization looks very bad right now and theyâve gotta do something.