One suspects Dell Demps’ cereal did not go down easy Monday morning without bourbon-flavored milk.



With word breaking that Anthony Davis will not sign a contract extension with New Orleans after this season and wants out via trade, it falls on Demps, the Pelicans’ GM, to make a deal under the ultimate duress. How do you trade, perhaps, the league’s best two-way player, entering his prime at 25, knowing the NBA’s big sharks will now increase their stalking of him, and get anything approaching a fair return?



You trade him to Boston this summer.



No Lakers, no Warriors, no Clippers, no Knicks.



Boston.



If the NBA remains committed to keeping the Pelicans in the Big Easy, it will do all it can to see that AD is re-rerouted to Beantown. The NBA has long been committed to keeping the Pelicans in New Orleans, since Hurricane Katrina forced the relocation of the then-Hornets to Oklahoma City for the 2005 and 2006 seasons,...