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[Kidnova]

Shams is just like Woj. No original thought for himself. Really tired of these press releases.

Also remember how happy Paul was, when AD got traded to Dallas. I guarantee you that clown Harrison would have given him a max extension. We went right back to the Retirement Home approach as soon as Lindsey left.

I have no idea why anybody would even want to trade for AD. He´s clearly only in basketball for the money. His team hopes to get him traded now at a total discount. Then he´ll perform four weeks for his new team and demand his extension. It will be the final deal he ever signs, so he probably checks out mentally three months later.

I could understand this from ATL POV, if AD was expiring, but I´d rather have Porzingis + Kennard expirings than AD for one play-off game/series, when I have a bright future with JJ, Daniels, Okungwu and the NOP/MIL picks. Why deal with the extension headache or the two remaining years. I get why TOR wants it. Poeltl is literally finished and Quickley is also a poor contract. 

And I genuinely doubt that the interest for AD was much higher around the league at the time of the Luka trade.

Kind of a weird take.  Shams, like Woj, isn't really supposed to be putting out a lot of original content.  They have connections to agents and teams which allow them to break news faster than everybody else.  Yes, that means a lot of it is filtered through a PR team, but it's also usually from legitimate sources.