The player association should make it happen
I canāt be how bad this whole thing has ruined our franchise young center. It just sucks. Do the right thing and push the trade through NBA!
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Thatās not going to happen. We likely donāt want that as that would be a years long type thing to settle. What we likely want is some penalty, be it financial or a 2nd round pick. But mostly we should be fighting for an admission of guilt of some type that takes the label of broken off of Mark for his sake and to a lesser extent ours.
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Right. I see this as fighting for Markās redemption.
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Yeah absolutely. We need to preserve the franchise perception as much as the mark perception. I think the legal pursuit actually helps our relationship with mark Williams, oddly. It says that we stand by our guy being healthy and not broken.
What a weird world
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Did any of you read the realgm boards of the Luka trade?
Last I checked it was over 180 pages. The overwhelming majority of the theme was how the league is simply sports entertainment at this point and are trying to save itself and ratings by getting the most marketable young player into the most marketable franchise. Even Lakers fans were saying this. Literally 99% of the comments were not trying to defend the fairness of the deal. And realgm is actual basketball watchers not casual fans.
It seems like the league could alter that perception slightly by making the Lakers pay the first but leave everything else in place rescinded.
Judging by the len buyout the Lakers are operating under the assumption they wonāt actually have to take on Mark
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They should rescind it.
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I see this as a psych opā¦ Especially if they overturn the tradeā¦ To āproveā the NBA isnāt setting up the Lakers to stay legitimate/contenders
Knecht is playing tonight. I know watching Lakers is like betrayal, and I dislike Lebron, but Kobe+Lakers was my team growing up, and now my 2nd favorite guy Luka is there, so, sorry Hornets.
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Youāre forgiven
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I was a huge Kobe guy too and I used to love the Lakers. Now, LeBron has made it so I can never pull for themā¦ and this Mark stuff made it even harder.
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We were Wong about Isaiah:
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I thought Wong flashed some potential offensively, but I guess they see Payton as more of a pure PG. Wong hasnāt been much of a facilitator. Only averaging 1.4 assists, albeit in only 13 mpg, but still just 3.8 per 36. Not great when thatās your main job. Included in that was a game last week against the Pistons where he only had 1 assist in 24 mins of court time.
On a different note, does anyone else find it odd that Eric, Dell and Shannon are just totally playing off the Mark Williams situation? Unless Iāve missed it, I havenāt even heard them so much as mention Markās name since everything happened with the trade. Admittedly, even though Iāve watched every game they havenāt had my full attention like they did earlier in the season so itās very possible itās been brought up and I missed it, but it just seems odd that they wouldnāt address whatās going on in some fashion. Seems like theyāve clearly been given a gag order by someone.
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We are clearing out his spot for Knecht to come over when the trade goes through. lol
Iām still holding out false hope.
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Holding out false hope is the main state of mind for us Hornets fans, of course.
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ā¦.and then BAM! The inescapable reality of Hornets Law sinks in. Things in life that cannot be escaped: death, taxes, hornets law.
We need some hornets law t shirts. I know we have a good designer here on HP who occasionally drops some fire photoshop stuff.
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Donāt look at them like independent journalists calling the game like say a tnt crew. Look at them like company employees paid to shine the product. Like in the Truman show when he starts saying random things to the extras just to see what their reaction would be
We are Truman.
So interesting.
Assuming this is true, do the hornets have to hold the line and not buy him out?