papalrep wrote:LIP---If Flip can't get a top young vet like a Parsons or Thompson or a potential star rookie like Wiggins, Exum or Parker, then He needs to take the deal that gives us the best array of future picks and short term contracts.
I agree
He is not coming back, period. He believes (I believe) that he has been dissed by Khan, Taylor, and now Flip and Ricky. He was detached and uninterested, that was rumored last year. He's gone.
So the question - do we want picks (Boston deal) or nothing, and do what we can with the cap space. Q and Cam seem to think we have some form of leverage here. We don't have shit. This is make the best of a blown relationship. Value for value is not going to happen.
Papal- I line up with you and Lip on this one. Love returning to play for us in October would be a disaster. Flip and Ricky feeling comfortable being critical of Love publicly signals a new approach...they aren't going to hold back and coddle him anymore, and Love doesn't like it. After he is traded, look for other Wolves' to join the chorus. You mention the dis by Kahn as a reason that he is unhappy. It seems incomprehensible that an adult could hold a grudge against a franchise because an employee who was subsequently fired dissed him, but this is the petulant Kevin Love we're talking about. Why stop at Kahn? He's probably holds it against the Wolves that fired coach Kurt Rambis talked so poorly about him. That seems to be how Kevin's mind works. LeBron would have a right to be pissed off at the Cavs because of the owner's foolish letter, but LBJ has the maturity and capacity to forgive. But Love has no reason to be angry at the Wolves because of things Rambis and Kahn said or did. And he has no cause to be angry with the Wolves because Flip and Ricky spoke the truth, albeit in a quite gentle manner.
God, I hope Flip can get something for this guy, because the demand for him just doesn't seem to be that high. I still like the prospect of a couple Celtics players and picks. I think it's the best we're going to do.
