For taking a stand against the trade request epidemic that is presently infecting the NBA.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/n ... 048150002/

Hopefully this gets addressed with in the next collective bargaining agreement.

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Wouldn't have gone this far under Stern. He'd have exiled Kyrie and KD to Charlotte and Sacramento.


messed up thing is it's looking like they'll both end up on the Nets still when the season starts. Kyrie might not give two shits, but KD gonna take the PR hit and not even get traded. The Gobert trade package made it impossible to trade KD. Nets would have to get at least what Minnesota gave Utah for Gobert and the TWolves pretty much gave everything you can give in a trade.

Silver is wrong. Players have the power to request a trade just like teams have the right to trade players. He should know better than to say something this foolish.

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Nets are asking for too much for KD, which leads me to believe that they really don't want to trade him. And if Kyrie wants to win the best place for him to be is the Nets..Something tells me they are going to all get in a room, hash it out and decide that all is forgiven right before the start of the season.

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Players constantly requesting trades all of the time kills team culture though.

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How do you stop it? Why wouldn't you when you get paid no matter what?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Trade requests are protected by the first amendment. Call them bitches but don't take away their rights.

Kyrie irrelevant without LBJ.

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Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
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How did he exactly take a stand?

Probably the same way David Stern nixed the proposed Chris Paul to the Lakers years ago. Blah blah blah...competitive balance...best interests of the league.

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Your 2nd question goes a long way towards answering the first actually.

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One place that could offer an enticing enough collection of draft picks for KD would be OKC:

https://www.si.com/nba/thunder/draft-co ... raft-picks

OKC has 4 2024 1st round picks. 3 2025 1st round picks. 3 2026 1st round picks. While you probably wouldn't want the 1st round pick of whatever team KD is on in 2024, OKC has Jazz and Rockets 2024 1st round picks that could end up in the lottery.

Somehow Presti messed up and only has one ticket for next year's Wembanyama sweepstakes.

You only get 1 shot at stopping Kobe from winning more rings than Jordan. This isn't Stern's America or NBA.

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I think the timing of the requests is what's beginning to piss the owners off more than anything. Players are locking their contracts in and then all of a sudden they are becoming disenchanted with their teams.

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It's just a request. No team is required to honor it.

Will the league stop owners from overpaying players or tanking?

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Why would anyone be shocked that Kyrie and Durant would want to leave?

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They don't have to honor it but the environment becomes so toxic that you have to move the guy. That's been the case with all of trade requests over the past 3-4 years.

Hopefully they address it during the next collective bargaining agreement.

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Kyrie and Durant are known bitches. If you want a guy who just shuts up and does his job then wait for Giannis.

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Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

Because they made a big deal about wanting to play together but it's bigger than just those 2 players. They aren't the only ones pulling this. It's becoming a league wide epidemic at this point

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Or Jimmy Butler

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So you want to bring back Red Auerbach's NBA so the players will know their place? They should just shut up and dribble.

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The Nets don't have to trade them. What are they going to do? Forfeit thir salaries? Get swept in the first round? Not win a championship?

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That they got rid of Atkinson to bring in then bring in Nash was another joke. Not to mention bigfooting to get Deandre Jordan was yet another test that ownership caved on to them.

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We need to protect owners from themselves?

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KD and Kyrie to the Nets: "You gave us everything we asked for, this sucks, we want something different, we want out"

fucking women pull that shit. they don't know what they want and when you give em what they claim to want it doesn't make em happy. bitches.

Uncle Jerry doesn't have these problems. He would have killed his son Michael before trading Jordan.

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Fake injuries, sit out games for load management, claim they are having mental health issues, find ways to get placed in Covid protocols, etc

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Then they'll lose a shitload of their salary and kill their future earning potential. It's not going to happen.

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Almost forgot the Nets still have this guy to deal with.

Where you been? Kawhi pulled it and it didn't hurt him one bit. So did Jimmy Buckets and he still got maxed out. Didn't hurt Harden either. Guys are pulling this garbage all over the league right now and it isn't impacting them because there are no safeguards in place to prevent it.

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It will kill Kyrie unless LeBron says so in LA. I don't think anyone else will deal with his crap since he's publicly screwed three franchises over and is a flake.

Durant is another matter. I think that Silver would void any deal in the next two seasons.

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