ESPN sources say Clippers lobbying DeAndre Jordan to reverse his decision to join Dallas

Isn't Portions supposed to be the franchise player?

 

So this is what Cyberdust is?

 

This is happening all the time when a player leaves during free agency. His old team lobbies him in an effort to get him to reconsider leaving. The only difference this time is that it played out in public on social media.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">J.J. Redick, when asked by <a href="https://twitter.com/ZachLowe_NBA">@ZachLowe_NBA</a> if DeAndre Jordan should’ve called the Mavericks: “probably no.” <a href="http://t.co/PQOMJEQMxi">http://t.co/PQOMJEQMxi</a></p>&mdash; devin kharpertian (@uuords) <a href="https://twitter.com/uuords/status/619566093653409792">July 10, 2015</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Redick’s reasoning pretty interesting — says it should be in the hands of the agency. (~22 minutes in)</p>&mdash; devin kharpertian (@uuords) <a href="https://twitter.com/uuords/status/619566264273502208">July 10, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Here's the podcast

http://cdn16.castfire.com/audio/303...f1c71d533f87b7e&referer=http://grantland.com/

 

Wait, so are you telling me that ROLE PLAYER Wes Matthews is now making more than FRANCHISE CORNERSTONE Chandler Parsons?? When can we look forward to the inevitable interview where Parsons tells the world he feels "disrespected" yet again?? I mean, didn't he leave Houston to be "THE MAN?" Well, based on salaries now, it seems like Parsons is in the shadow of Wes Matthews.

 

full circle

Portions left Houston because he did not want to be in the shadow of Harden

Now, he is in the shadow of Mathews who is known for shadowing Harden

 

Wasn't Monta jealous of Chandler or the other way around?

 

Lol, "Come to Dallas to make the date fun." the guy just dissed the man's hometown. We are talking about a dude that has Houston tattoos on him...no wonder he didn't respond after that.

 

If I were Cuban, I'd offer UFA Austin Rivers a huge one-year contract, something so big that the Clippers couldn't offer him a bigger one and that he'd be a fool not to sign and be a FA again in summer of 2016.

Then once he signed, I'd park his sorry ass on the bench all year and not give him a single minute of playing time.

 

Dont think anyone would cry over Austin Rivers who is ironically signing today.... not even sure why they still want him

 

Great interview with Redick. Had no idea he lived here in Texas (prior to Tuesday/Wednesday and driving to this meeting).

http://cdn16.castfire.com/audio/303...f1c71d533f87b7e&referer=http://grantland.com/

I had a "Call me ASAP" from Doc. He said, "You're not getting traded." I was happy. He said "DJ wants to come back, we're going to Houston." I said "Great". He texted me the details.

I was already in Houston. I saw a plane emoji. Chandler Parsons to the rescue, yay! I'm like, we'll tweet out a car, I'm already here. I was in the suite we would all meet at prior to heading to DeAndre's.

I'm the first person in the suite but not the first person there. One assistant, Armond Hill & Blake. Blake and him were at dinner the night before, taking pictures. How was this not on the internet? We all met at the hotel, head to DeAndre's and the rest is what's been put on twitter with less drama. It was a meeting. Less of a pitch and more of team building, as Doc said. Very short meeting. Broke out into casual conversation. Doc said "We're staying until 11:01 when you can sign." DeAndre said "Cool, let's get some food." His parents got some chicken for us. Paul, CP3, DeAndre and me started playing spades on the kitchen table.

He was coming back?

I can't speak for him but his heart was to stay in LA and with the Clippers. We're a close knit group and have been. It's the closest team I've been a part of in my 9 years in the NBA. DJ will have to address this at some point but I think his heart was in LA.

And the rest is you guys are chilling for 11 hours?

About at 5:30pm CT, I was like, this is done. I've had my chicken, played spades, my wife left Thursday morning for Florida. I talked to DJ and Doc. I head back to Austin, I'm so amp'd, I'm thinking I gotta be close to Austin. I GPS'd myself and I was in San Antonio. I still had to drive another hour north to Austin. I was I-10, I never got on Route 71 back to Austin. A 3 hour drive became a 4 hour 45 minute drive. ... Meanwhile, we have this hostage crisis. Let's talk about something real quick: I read that this is a mockery of this $5B business. It was a small subset of people part of this story on twitter. It was all in good fun. Our meeting was very serious. His decision was very serious. Having said that, Wednesday was the best day on twitter maybe ever.

ZL: There were multiple times I said "Shut it down." It was one thing after another. Shut down the NBA, it won't get better than this.

JJ: I can't say it's a bad thing for the NBA. The actual process of the moratorium, free agency, DJ going back to LA, that's not great if you know what I mean. The NBA, besides August, is almost a year round sport/business. Free Agency gets a ton of attention. If you're on twitter, it's the best thing ever. I have not been on twitter in 2 years. Wednesday was one hit after another.

My favorite moment was Pierce not understanding how to use emoji's properly. Your favorite moment?

In terms of Pierce, I'm not sure why he tweeted that out. He wasn't trolling. He has emoji apps on his phone, neither of which I heard of. He got some crazy ones. I don't know why he couldn't type it into his twitter feed. I am unsure why it was a picture of a spaceship and not a spaceship emoji. We talked about it. I'm still unsure. My favorite tweet wasn't until yesterday and that was the video mash up of the Wolf of Wall Street. It's all of our faces mashed up. The internet is great. ... We needed DeAndre back and there were funny moments but it was vital for us to get him back. It hurts Dallas. What the Spurs did, what the Cavs did, these teams are reloading. If Durant is healthy, next year will be incredible for NBA basketball.

Do you feel you guys belong in the conversation or you have to re-prove yourselves [after the Houston debacle]?

I do feel that way [we have to prove ourselves]. We haven't done anything as a group. As a team, if you can get to the Conference Finals, then you say we have a chance and we're a contender. We're not in that group yet. We have enough to be in that group. You have to put Houston in that group. We have a lot to prove. In terms of the Houston series, I'm not sure there is a good explanation. Game 6 we took our foot off the gas a little bit. The NBA game can turn so quickly on a couple of possessions. End of the 3rd, beginning of the 4th, we had chances to blow it open and it didn't happen. Give Smith credit. We didn't recover in game 7. We're going back to the regular season and games we should have won. A game at Brooklyn where Jack hits a buzzer beater, if we win that, we have home court for game 7. There is room for improvement, not only in the playoffs but also being more consistent in the regular season. We weren't as consistent as we need to be to be an elite team but we have that capability.

Is there a natural tendency, did you guys take game 5 as serious as you should have?

When I say we took our foot off the gas, I don't mean just after 3rd Q game 6, I meant after game 4. We blew them out twice at home, go to game 5, I don't know what we were thinking. We didn't take it as serious as we should have. That has to be growth for us. A good team will close it out. Think Golden State in the Finals in Game 6.

Back to DJ, did anyone from Dallas come to the house?

Not when I was there. I don't know what transpired from 6-11pm. Can't speak for the Mavs.

Did DJ owe them a phone call?

Great question and the answer is probably no. My free agency situation 2 years ago, it was Minnesota and the Clippers. In my situation, I committed to Flip. There were still things to work out(trade kicker). Doc calls me and says "If we get to this starting salary in year one, will you come?" I was like "Yeah, if you get there, get it done." When they did, my agent called Flip. It was not on me to call Flip. 2 days later, when Sterling decided he didn't want to do a SnT, because I was white or a bench player, I've heard both stories, I didn't get a call from Sterling. This is the agent's job. I'm not sure why Dan Fegan wasn't calling Cuban. I can't speak for Fegan.

Did you see Dan Fegan?

I don't know if he did or not. I didn't see him.

Who were the teams in spades and who's good?

I haven't played in 5 years. Chris is a bit of a shark with cards. He knows all the games, all the rules, it's well documented he's pretty competitive. We didn't get to finish. Canes chicken arrived and we scrapped the game. Chris and Paul were up over me and DJ.

Blake not a spades or card player?

Blake was coming up with picture ideas. There was some discussion over what was barricading the door. It was after I left but I suggested a sofa. He went with something more subtle.

That photo came out well.

Blake is a funny guy. Not only was the picture funny but his comment was hilarious. Good sense of humor and well executed.

Any part of you that feels bad for the Mavericks? Is that just life? Do you feel bad at all?

You have to feel for them a little bit. There's discussion on twitter about is DeAndre wrong or whatever? This happens all the time in any business. Someone used the analogy of closing on a house. It happens. Those things happen in life. I feel bad for sure but it's part of it. It's not the first time it happened, it won't be the last. This stuff happens.

I heard this: there was a sense that his family felt mislead by DeAndre's agent. Was that verbalized at all during the meeting?

We stayed away from the Fegan issue. It was not something we wanted to get into. From what I understand, there is frustration. DeAndre and Fegan will get that sorted out.

Rest of your summer like?

Go to the ESPYs next week. My wife and I said we wanted to go. We'll go there, go to Santa Barbara after, train for 6 weeks very hard then 3 weddings in 4 weekends, all family members. Busy late August, early September. I'll get all my work done.

 

But it was Deandre who called them first... what the Clippers did after that is pretty fair game.

And if Jordan was really swayed/duped by his agent into accepting Dallas' offer, the agent is the real "bad guy" for not doing what his client wanted.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">J.J. Redick told <a href="https://twitter.com/ZachLowe_NBA">@ZachLowe_NBA</a> he was already in Houston when Chandler Parsons tweeted out the plane emoji and responded with the car.</p>&mdash; Ben Bolch (@latbbolch) <a href="https://twitter.com/latbbolch/status/619577431901339648">July 10, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Whatever went down between Jordan and Fegan, it was bad enough that the player signed his new major deal without his agent in the room. I'd like to hear Jordan's people speak more on not trusting Fegan.

 

LOL he forgot to tell us when he went to the restroom or how much booger he cleared from his right nostril.

That is one of the most pathetic things I have ever read.

Couldnt have happened to a beter couple: Cuban and Parsons.

 

What I get from this is that Dan Fegan is an as**ole, but we already knew that. Sounds like he might have misled Deandre and there does seem to be under the table nonsense with Fegan and Parsons. Again, this is Dwight's fault for his free agency and Parsons bring him to Houston....LA fans are going to boo Dwight the next time he's in town for indirectly steering Deandre away from L.A.

 

Here is the Wolf vid that JJ was mentioning. Pretty funny.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2519243-imagining-deandre-jordan-announcing-la-return-in-the-wolf-on-wall-street-style

 

Under the table non-sense with Fegan, Parsons, and Cuban. The pull agents have in the league is strong and just part of the business, but the Fegan-Cuban friendship thing is just beyond the pale. So glad Howard re-buffed Fegan's influence and came to Houston anyway. Was so sweet seeing Fegan pouting during the press conference, despite Morey ego stroking that snake.

 

Thank go for the internets.