You're dreaming. He won't be traded here. New Orleans just picked up 2 top-10 rookies to match with Gordon as a high-potential team for the future. They'll match the contract and he'll be a Hornet and that's it. Your first paragraph was right. NO did the same thing Morey does with his RFAs -- let the market set the price and match it. The only thing interesting is why Phoenix and not Houston. And I think the answer is we didn't have enough space to sign a max offer sheet without moving some people. Gordon knew NO wasn't going to let him go anyway, so just find a max offer somewhere and sign it. No need to bother yourself with S&T scenarios that won't happen.
Phoenix's training staff revitalized Shaq, kept Nash youthful and have had some amazing rehabs on their watch with Grant Hill and Amare Stoudemire. The best kept NBA insiders secret is that Phoenix's training staff is far and away the best in the business. If the only thing stopping me from becoming a superstar, are injuries, I'd sign an offer sheet with Phoenix over Houston every single day. Our training staff lets FRANCHISE players develop stress fractures. Phoenix re-animates basketball life. Easy choice, let's be real.
I'm sorry. It annoys me when people complain that players need to be emotionless. I hate it. They are actually some of the most spoiled and entitled people in the world and somehow by treating them like assets you aren't going to piss them off? I find that ridiculous.
If anybody on our roster would live up to what we all hoped they would be, they wouldn't be treated as replaceable. Dragic & Lowry were almost there. Both left on their own though.
They both left because the organization didn't treat them that well. Why does Stephen Jackson work on the Spurs but not on any other team? Because the Spurs know how to make him feel like part of the organization and important.
http://valleyofthesuns.com/2012/04/05/secret-behind-phoenix-suns-elite-training-staff/ http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/40143/the-secrets-of-the-suns-training-staff http://www.nba.com/suns/news/cryo_chamber_120315.html http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/paul_forrester/01/22/suns-trainers/index.html
It sucks but players get lowballed all the time but you have to remember they get paid millions of dollars to play basketball. Getting rather annoying that many franchise players are trying to "have their cake, and eat it too" mentality to try to pick where they want to get traded and resigned. Hey how about you get traded, then you resign to wherever you want to resign to. Not too hard to figure out. When a player goes and demands a trade but specifically to only one team, you screw your public image AND the team. (applies to more than one player in the last few years)
What do you think the Hornets can get back in a trade for 4 years of an oft-injured Eric Gordon on a Max contract, LOL, maybe the rockets can trade for him next year when they make him available.
I don't get why people complain about a player being offended by a offer or about someone being drafted at the same position that you are at. You do realize he is making a decision on a team he expects to be around for a long time right? New Orleans isn't exactly a good team also so I don't get why he is getting bashed considering he didn't want to be in New Orleans in the first place.
I can think of a ton of reason why he didn't want to be in Houston. First of all, the Rockets is a mess right now... They don't even have a PG to play alongside with and they don't have a center in the middle. Morey always trying to low ball everything even when he knows a player deserves more. The Rockets are going to treat me as an asset and trade him in a package eventually.... As of right now, not many players want to be in Houston right now. The Rockets don't have a direction, they are a mess, they don't know what they want, its a sad time to be a Rockets fan right now...
You do realize the Suns traded Dragic away, meaning they treated him much more like an "asset" than the Rockets did.
At least Rockets made out like bandit in that trade. Dragic and a first round pick.... now Brooks might be coming back. Remember the reason Brook got traded was he was dillusional about hisnperceived value. Dragic was good but he wanted to be in phoenix.
The Hornets made it plain they would match a max contract. If Eric Gordon was so concerned about where he would play, he should have been man-enough to sign the qualifying offer and become unrestricted next summer. He had a chance to control his long-term destiny and chose not to. Now he wants the Hornets to let him walk for nothing in return? The isn't exactly the first time a team let a RFA determine their market value and then match. It's nearly always done that way. EG made is own bed and shouldn't cry.
