Doug Baldwin once said, “Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that’s when it’s progress.” Charles R. Swindoll, the pastor, author and educator, broke it down like this, “We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.” Then William Pollard, the physicist, put it where the goats could get it when he spit, “Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.”
Well playas…at some point you duns are going to start listening to me. Once Anthony Davis told the Pelicans back in February that he wanted out and that he specifically wanted to play for the Lakers it was a wrap. Change was inevitable directly to the Lakers. On Saturday boyz announced that the Pelicans and Lakers agreed to a trade to send Davis to LA for Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart and three first round draft picks.
For months I’ve been telling you cats that the only place the Pelicans could trade A.D. was to the Lakers because he becomes an unrestricted free agent next summer. Nobody in their right mind would trade away assets to gamble on a boy walking away and they get nothing in return. That’s why it made absolutely no sense for Dell Demps, former Pelicans GM, not to make the trade in the first place.
It was inevitable that he was going to LA and to the Lakers because he said that’s where he wanted to play. PeriodT! The day ole boy walked into Demps’ office and said that he wanted out and to the Lakers he was in control. So Demps threw his job out of the window trying to play hard ball and not get punk’d by Rich Paul and LeBron.
Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Rich Paul, Lebron and Anthony Davis had ALL of the power in this situation bruh. AD is one of the best players in the NBA that was free to walk next summer and he told them that he was going to walk if they didn’t trade him. He essentially told the rest of the NBA that anybody other than the Lakers would be wasting assets even trying to holler at him. They had ALL of the power.
These are some street cats that have learned how to control the dice in the NBA. The best players in the world with GUARANTEED contracts and a thing called free agency essentially own the casino. You can thank LeBron for that player. He was the cat that took free agency to a new level by signing short term deals and controlling the board. He put his boyz on and now it’s his game.
Rick Paul, his boy, his agent, is team LeBron, so they had New Orleans stuffed into a locker telling them that they were giving up the lunch money, sneakers and jewelry. And oh yeah, give them the answers to the test tomorrow too. It was inevitable. Of course David Griffin, the Pelicans new general manager, is looking like a genius this morning because he got an additional first round draft pick out of the deal.
Initially the Lakers were offering two first round picks back in February. Now they’ve given up three. What’s crazy to me is that all Demps had to do was make the stupid trade and he’d still be working. So he essentially gave his job away to prove that he wasn’t going to let a boy take his lunch money, sneakers and jewelry and the answers to the test that they were going to get anyway.
The Lakers went from being a 4:1 favorite on Friday morning to win the NBA title next year to a 7:2 favorite. Again, at some point y’all are going to start listening to me. Stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
1) Spit: verb – to say
2) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.
3) Put it where the goats can get it: verb phrase – to make it as elementary as possible. To put it at ground level so everyone can understand it.
