I strongly fear our negotiating skills though, Rob Pelinka and Kurt Rambis are currently ruining our front office. I fear we will outbid fake rumors rather than offer what is an actually fair deal. What team out there can offer better than us that is willing to do so, and won’t gut their team in the process? AD said he wants a trade because he wants to win, so that eliminates some other teams that have top 10 picks to trade but no star still on the roster if they trade their best assets for AD. We CAN trade all of our young pieces and the pick and we still have LeBron for AD to play next to. Knicks, Suns, Cavs, Bulls, Grizzlies? Who has what it takes to get this done over us? The Wizards by trading Beal? They’d have to gamble on AD sticking around to play with Wall in over a year, because he’s not playing next season. Those other teams I listed trade their best assets and they have nobody left to play next to AD and he’s worse off than he was in NO, so they’re taking a huge gamble on him. Trading AD to us for a package that benefits both teams just makes the most sense to me. I think Boston can still get in on this too, but they have to give up Tatum, because their picks are weak now.

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