DeMar Derozan says okay with star players demanding trades

[CGD]

I feel like the league likes parity, but the league loves the casuals more and the casuals love them some super teams and merch so they want super teams.

The league also loves that the transfer markets (Feb, March buyout, June draft, July free agency) have exploded with interested in the past few years. Add the intrigue around summer league to that too.

Heard this somewhere and it was so true: it was the week of the super bowl and all the sports media buzz was about AD destinations.

[look_at_g_shred]

Said it a week too late

[GreekSpursfan]

What does Derozan have to do with star players, he was an average player that with hard work had a few good years with the Raptors where his fg% was never above 50% and about 40% in the playoffs and now back to being average again and in the process of sucking again he's making us more depressed than he is.

[ceperez]

Lets quit complaining about Derozan.

The Raptors are going to be without Leonard next season and have Green as a free agent.

Meanwhile the Spurs have Derozan and Poetl locked up and have a first round pick at #28

[bic50]

I’m not against players wanting to be traded especially if their team is not making efforts to improve, just not to make any excuses like Kawhi did, and allow their team to explore the best possible trade. Just the same, I view star players like Durant as weak wanting to join a depending champion, or Davis in cahoots with other players to form super team. There’s nothing wrong with it, but they’re weak and it loses that persistence to be better, building from within. I have more respect with players like MJ, Duncan, Kobe, Dirk who stayed loyal with their team and able to win. They’re mark of true champions. I guess the millennial values change loyalty. I doubt we’ll ever see players staying with one team, instead hopping to other jobs frequently. I hope it changes Spurs view rewarding loyalty contracts especially like Gasol.

Demar was loyal and wanted to stay with the raptors and look what happened. Both players and teams have to look out for themselves. Demar learned the hard way and the whole ordeal has probably changed him.

[bic50]

Lets quit complaining about Derozan.

The Raptors are going to be without Leonard next season and have Green as a free agent.

Meanwhile the Spurs have Derozan and Poetl locked up and have a first round pick at #28

Why does it matter what happens to the raptors?

[dbreiden83080]

Good thing he is not a Star Player..

[dbreiden83080]

Lets quit complaining about Derozan.

The Raptors are going to be without Leonard next season and have Green as a free agent.

Meanwhile the Spurs have Derozan and Poetl locked up and have a first round pick at #28

Leonard being gone long term is good for the Spurs. Why drag out the inevitable with him? He is not that Guy? Had he stayed with the Spurs and signed that mega deal with the team, it would be more of the same with him. 20 plus games a season of him not playing and being soft. Maybe the Spurs win a round in the playoffs, but no finals and no les. Cut it all down and rebuild through the draft the next few years..

[GAustex]

i hope he demands a trade

then watch spurms fo trade him for a bag of condoms with wholes in it

That is funny

[superbigtime]

this guy grows less likeable daily

[Strategic]

This might put him with the 90 percentile of players.

[Kobe'sAchilles]

If only he was ok with star players actually playing defense...

[ceperez]

Why does it matter what happens to the raptors?

What it means is that if Spurs kept Leonard, we would also be left with nothing much.

[ZeusWillJudge]

White people say the silliest in regards to this topic

Players can ask for trades, they've been doing it for 40 years..their team can decide not to trade them..asking for a trade isn't banned in their contracts..

Your race schtick won't work here. The Greeks were honoring contracts over a thousand years before your ancestors first allowed white Europeans to carry them out of Africa. I was there.

It's so simple even you can understand: when you make an agreement and get paid money, you do what you promised or you pay the money back.


For not paying attention in school.
For creating the Angry Black Man schtick as a cover for weak basketball takes.
And for thinking that Greeks are white.

You have been judged and found unworthy.

[spurs10]

Also DeMar is still stinging that he was traded without being consulted, so he doesn't feel that players can't ask to be moved when they feel like it. Of course a player wanting more PT is quite different than a star player who has another year on their contract. That ship has longed sailed, but I also thought the Spurs were going to make #2 play regardless of his demands. Then again I didn't have to be around him and all that drama gets old fast.

[FkLA]

There's ways to go about it. Ideally, you play out your contract if you are considering resigning. If you're 100% leaving, give your team a heads up the final year so they can get some kind of return on their investment.

I don't think anyone (other than the salty fans of the team that the star is leaving) would have a problem if that's how was handled. KD for example, there was nothing wrong with him actually leaving it's where he left to that was super weak.

[HarlemHeat37]

Your race schtick won't work here. The Greeks were honoring contracts over a thousand years before your ancestors first allowed white Europeans to carry them out of Africa. I was there.

It's so simple even you can understand: when you make an agreement and get paid money, you do what you promised or you pay the money back.


For not paying attention in school.
For creating the Angry Black Man schtick as a cover for weak basketball takes.
And for thinking that Greeks are white.

You have been judged and found unworthy.

Just a bunch of gibberish behind a terrible gimmick

Davis is playing out his contract, he just played both games this weekend..he informed his team that he wants to leave, which he's en led to do, his contract doesn't state otherwise..they're en led to say no, which they did..ultimately, they will trade him(probably during the offseason) and will receive assets, which is better than losing him for nothing, which would be the case the following summer..

Simple as that..I know you'd rather have a white man controlling their every move, it infuriates you to see Black players calling their own shots(you probably miss the Sambo ball of the 90s), but times have changed..I don't give a about the gay-ass ancient Greeks

[baseline bum]

Care salesmen get paid on the cars they sell. Great idea to treat them like car salesmen. If you don't produce, you don't get paid.

Car salesmen aren't risking injury by doing their job.

[weeks]

Your race schtick won't work here. The Greeks were honoring contracts over a thousand years before your ancestors first allowed white Europeans to carry them out of Africa. I was there.

HH obv isn't black, that's just schtick

[ZeusWillJudge]

There's ways to go about it. Ideally, you play out your contract if you are considering resigning. If you're 100% leaving, give your team a heads up the final year so they can get some kind of return on their investment.

I don't think anyone (other than the salty fans of the team that the star is leaving) would have a problem if that's how was handled. KD for example, there was nothing wrong with him actually leaving it's where he left to that was super weak.

Exactly. And handle it privately. Leaving isn't the problem. But let your team get fair value out of their investment. Public demands, announcing that you'll only consider a couple of teams, faking an injury? That's not a business negotiation, it's a shakedown. At the very least, the league should yank the player's Bird rights

Nobody wants a person to be forced to be somewhere they don't want to be. That's stupid talk. Just make a way for the team holding the contract to get fair market value.

[ZeusWillJudge]

HH obv isn't black, that's just schtick

LOL. Ya think? Next you're going to say that I'm not really a Greek god.

[MaNu4Tres]

Can we trade DeMar to Charlotte for Batum and three 1sts?

Please?

[HarlemHeat37]

Exactly. And handle it privately. Leaving isn't the problem. But let your team get fair value out of their investment. Public demands, announcing that you'll only consider a couple of teams, faking an injury? That's not a business negotiation, it's a shakedown. At the very least, the league should yank the player's Bird rights

Nobody wants a person to be forced to be somewhere they don't want to be. That's stupid talk. Just make a way for the team holding the contract to get fair market value.

This is so naive

Do you know what his agent would be doing behind the scenes even if he hadn't publicly asked for a trade? You don't think that Detroit and Charlotte don't already know that Anthony Davis isn't going to sign a long-term deal there? You don't think teams do their homework and have an idea of whether a player is willing to stay there for a 5-year deal? Smh..

but it was leaked on Twitter and on ESPN, now Atlanta and Cleveland know that he isn't willing to go there

[phxspurfan]

Welcome to the rest of the world, Spur Fan. Not everyone is like Duncan, Robinson, Manu or even Parker.

[DPG21920]

Regardless of what you think, these players are being stupid. Do they have power?

PG wanted LA - got OKC. Kawhi wanted LA. He got shipped to a polar vortex. AD wanted LA? He’s still in NO begging NO to let him play.

Even if for selfish reasons, PR reasons, these players need to get better advice. They are trying to be these power brokers using average joes with jobs as comparisons despite making millions. All they are doing is shooting themselves in the foot, losing money and fan support.

Its fine to want out; just go about it the proper way. Should not be that hard.