This part of the quote should matter more than anything “and at the same time there is a financial reality that we all deal with”
People in the replies think this means Griff is running it back but I look at it as more than definitely a trade happening unless a huge discount is being took.
ExternalEbb2584
This fucking bum. Comes out hot after the season saying we need to make changes. Literally tanks BI’s trade value. Then realizes he ain’t getting offered shit for the guy so now he’s backtracking. This dude is a moron. Inept. Get a real gm in here. This nerd needs to go
Own-Height-3303
He will resign at a lower, non-maximum amount almost certainly. Griffin’s not getting anything worthwhile trading him as a heavily devalued expiring, and Ingram and his agent aren’t getting the $50 million a year they want anywhere in the league right now after the way he played this postseason.
People gonna scream and cry about “running it back”, but unless some desperate team comes along offering a Bridges level haul this is the most realistic and favorable outcome for all parties involved.
ahungrybatman
Not winning a championship
SUKnives
Excitement level for next season has dropped marginally over the last few hours.
BobMarleynthewhalers
Fire Griff
OvenIcy8646
We’ve gotten better 3 consecutive seasons with the weirdest most fucked up injury luck, just sayin
iamStanhousen
I think the way Griffin has handled the offseason has been ass. But I do think BI’s value is all time low right now.
Part of that is Griffin’s fault. But I don’t like moving him for Murray, especially if we had to attach picks. If you could do it for Trae I’m interested, and I’d attach picks to do so.
But there are worse outcomes than running it back. Some people think this is us being too cautious, but it’s really just us refusing to move BI in a move that would make us worse. Like to Philly for picks and Tobias fucking Harris. I’m good with not doing something dumb just for the sake of doing something.
WateryDomesticGroove
This is pretty much the worst case scenario and also exactly what I figured would happen. We’re going to run back pretty much the same exact roster minus the veteran center we had. There is very little reason to be optimistic about next season at this point.
Skinnyboytre55
So basically; we running it back with a slightly worser drastic roster then the previous season? I just hope that Zion can have another healthy season by time the post-season rolls around and make his Playoff debut, well if we even make it this time…
Emotional_Nebula_117
Paul George has to set the market.
KingB53
BI you’ve grown into one of my fav guys in the league. But Unless you plan on changing your style to fit Zion or take a pay cut I don’t see the reason to keep banging all of our heads against the same wall expecting a different result
Wish you all the luck on earth but it might be time to go man
NOLA_504LA
I really don’t get the overreaction to the answer, if a trade is available for BI that makes the team better it will happen but if such a trade is not available why would we burn our bridge with BI? Would some be happy if Griff said “BI doesn’t want to be here and we don’t want him here” now that would be a reason to melt because that would be outright stupid to say.
WelbeckStoleMyHeart
The experiment failed. Time to part ways for everyone’s sanity
Ja___av93
Basically he is starting to see that other teams don’t value BI as high as he had hoped and we wont get shit back for him
glizzyguzzler
We are wasting time, but that sums up the entire history of this team
Razor-Ramon-Sessions
Seems like a good time to remind everyone that BI + Zion minutes were actually good…
But the BI, CJ, and Zion minutes were bad.
mehTrip
Call me a bi fan i definitely am but when a player wants to stay in new orleans and has built love in the community, it would be suicide to get rid of him.
jpett0882
Holy shit how many years are we gonna keep running this back to only make the play in and get beat down. This roster isn’t as good we think it is. We need to stay healthy well yeah we can’t do it with this roster. They can’t stay healthy. Hope for 1 year they magically stay healthy and have a good run. It’s like this ownership just wants a team to have a decent season for people to buy tickets that’s all. Shit won’t change. I get it we all wanna get our hopes up but this team isn’t close to the level of competing. Building around a player who is always injured with more injury prone players. Lose a vet center for a rookie that hasn’t even played basketball for that long. We are gonna make changes and now we are running it back only to be in the play in tournament if we are lucky. Until they actually try to build a championship team and put the effort in to this team I can’t sit here and support this dumb shit.
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so we run it back or not
This part of the quote should matter more than anything “and at the same time there is a financial reality that we all deal with”
People in the replies think this means Griff is running it back but I look at it as more than definitely a trade happening unless a huge discount is being took.
This fucking bum. Comes out hot after the season saying we need to make changes. Literally tanks BI’s trade value. Then realizes he ain’t getting offered shit for the guy so now he’s backtracking. This dude is a moron. Inept. Get a real gm in here. This nerd needs to go
He will resign at a lower, non-maximum amount almost certainly. Griffin’s not getting anything worthwhile trading him as a heavily devalued expiring, and Ingram and his agent aren’t getting the $50 million a year they want anywhere in the league right now after the way he played this postseason.
People gonna scream and cry about “running it back”, but unless some desperate team comes along offering a Bridges level haul this is the most realistic and favorable outcome for all parties involved.
Not winning a championship
Excitement level for next season has dropped marginally over the last few hours.
Fire Griff
We’ve gotten better 3 consecutive seasons with the weirdest most fucked up injury luck, just sayin
I think the way Griffin has handled the offseason has been ass. But I do think BI’s value is all time low right now.
Part of that is Griffin’s fault. But I don’t like moving him for Murray, especially if we had to attach picks. If you could do it for Trae I’m interested, and I’d attach picks to do so.
But there are worse outcomes than running it back. Some people think this is us being too cautious, but it’s really just us refusing to move BI in a move that would make us worse. Like to Philly for picks and Tobias fucking Harris. I’m good with not doing something dumb just for the sake of doing something.
This is pretty much the worst case scenario and also exactly what I figured would happen. We’re going to run back pretty much the same exact roster minus the veteran center we had. There is very little reason to be optimistic about next season at this point.
So basically; we running it back with a slightly worser drastic roster then the previous season? I just hope that Zion can have another healthy season by time the post-season rolls around and make his Playoff debut, well if we even make it this time…
Paul George has to set the market.
BI you’ve grown into one of my fav guys in the league. But Unless you plan on changing your style to fit Zion or take a pay cut I don’t see the reason to keep banging all of our heads against the same wall expecting a different result
Wish you all the luck on earth but it might be time to go man
I really don’t get the overreaction to the answer, if a trade is available for BI that makes the team better it will happen but if such a trade is not available why would we burn our bridge with BI? Would some be happy if Griff said “BI doesn’t want to be here and we don’t want him here” now that would be a reason to melt because that would be outright stupid to say.
The experiment failed. Time to part ways for everyone’s sanity
Basically he is starting to see that other teams don’t value BI as high as he had hoped and we wont get shit back for him
We are wasting time, but that sums up the entire history of this team
Seems like a good time to remind everyone that BI + Zion minutes were actually good…
But the BI, CJ, and Zion minutes were bad.
Call me a bi fan i definitely am but when a player wants to stay in new orleans and has built love in the community, it would be suicide to get rid of him.
Holy shit how many years are we gonna keep running this back to only make the play in and get beat down. This roster isn’t as good we think it is. We need to stay healthy well yeah we can’t do it with this roster. They can’t stay healthy. Hope for 1 year they magically stay healthy and have a good run. It’s like this ownership just wants a team to have a decent season for people to buy tickets that’s all. Shit won’t change. I get it we all wanna get our hopes up but this team isn’t close to the level of competing. Building around a player who is always injured with more injury prone players. Lose a vet center for a rookie that hasn’t even played basketball for that long. We are gonna make changes and now we are running it back only to be in the play in tournament if we are lucky. Until they actually try to build a championship team and put the effort in to this team I can’t sit here and support this dumb shit.