Davis has made it clear he desires out New Orleans.
This previous week we’ve been reporting that Anthony Davis has requested a commerce out New Orleans and wish to go to a crew just like the Los Angeles Lakers, the place he would get to play with LeBron James. In response to this, the Pelicans issued an announcement the place they’d this to say:
“This previous weekend, Anthony Davis’ representatives knowledgeable us that Anthony doesn’t want to signal a contract extension with our crew and subsequently has requested a commerce. Though we’re disenchanted on this determination our group’s prime precedence is to deliver an NBA championship to our metropolis and followers construct our crew for long-term success.
Relative to particular talks a commerce, we’ll do that on our timeline. One which make sense for our crew and it’ll not be dictated by these outdoors our group. We’ve got additionally requested the League to strictly implement the tampering guidelines related to this transaction.”
Now it’s being reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that the Pelicans have had an inkling for a while now that Davis would finally ask to go someplace else and decline to signal a 5-year $240 million tremendous max contract. Whereas showing on ESPN Radio, Wojnarowski mentioned “I do know they’ve feared this coming for a while. I don’t imagine they had been blindsided. I believe, inside that group, there was lots sentiment that this was inevitable, that it might very nicely occur earlier than the commerce deadline.”
The NBA commerce deadline takes place on February seventh so it is going to be attention-grabbing to see how this case is revolved within the coming weeks.