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Originally Posted by FanIn80
So if it turns out he doesn't want to play here... rather than lose him for nothing, could we do a sign and trade? Like it's still in his best interest to sign for 8 years with us with the understanding that we'd trade him to wherever he wants to go.
Sign with Philly for 7x11.5 vs sign with us for 8x11.5 and then we trade him to Philly.
Edit: Even better... sign with us for 8x11.5 and a list of 5 teams he'd be willing to go to. Then we start a bidding war.
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it would be nice, but pretty much wishful thinking at this point...
no reason for him to hamstring his new team by gutting them when he can just wait until July 13th and sign with them without losing any roster players.
if he does get to July 13th, then that 8th year has no leverage against him, as testing the market is the bigger desire.
The one benefit is having the new team clear cap space, however, its more likely that any players being traded are 'dead weight' like JVR rather than a blue chipper