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For people who care about these things, with AD gone, we are down to Gafford and Lively being our only remaining Klutch players.  I wonder how smoothly the Lively extension negotiations are going to be if Paul and AD really aren’t happy about the trade to the Wiz.

Bagley and Middleton are Excel clients.

Jones (and Max Christie and PJ) are represented by Kevin Bradbury of LIFT Management.  Those three and Tyus’s brother are pretty much his entire client base.  Bradbury was with Duffy for years before branching out on his own.  AJ Johnson is represented by Duffy.

I think you still put too much emphasis on the agent affiliation. The agency can obviously try to influence their client, but at the end of the day, they still work for the player. The player makes the final decision. If the Mavs want Lively to be here and Lively wants to be here, he´ll be here. He´s still a RFA. Also why would Paul be unhappy about this trade. He can now get Lively paid in Dallas and AD in Washington, instead of having three clients looking for one spot in the same place.
I guarantee you Paul does not give a flying f*** where AD was traded. He wanted to secure an extension for his client, which obviously is not happening anywhere and who cares that AD is unhappy. I doubt that anyway. He does not love basketball enough to be unhappy about that. He´s probably more upset that he once again has to find new golf courses and the weather for golf in Washington is not as nice as it was in LA, Dallas or New Orleans.