Rich Paul: Luka AD trade wouldn't have happened if I knew

[get these nets]

He sounds like a clown here.

He's spoken in the past like he invented the wheel (he would have made Iverson bigger than Jordan,etc)

 

[LV Koopa]

He wouldn’t have had a choice. Running to his daddy LeBron or step-daddy Adam Silver wouldn’t have stopped the trade from going down.

Ultimately either Rich Paul is lying because LeBron wanted AD gone, or LeBron isn’t happy with Luka being the new face of the team. Either way they look bad

Yes it would've. If he finds out, he leaks the new of an AD-Luka trade and other NBA teams get involved. The reason it's such a big deal is that it was essentially a secret bid. Nico got such little for Luka if other teams could bid, he wouldn't be able to ignore their offers in plain sight. AKA Luka can't be traded.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

Yes it would've. If he finds out, he leaks the new of an AD-Luka trade and other NBA teams get involved. The reason it's such a big deal is that it was essentially a secret bid. Nico got such little for Luka if other teams could bid, he wouldn't be able to ignore their offers in plain sight. AKA Luka can't be traded.

He put feelers out before to the players he wanted (i.e. Giannis). If anything, leaking the deal would’ve made the Lakers give up more than they wanted to to land Luka.

Nico wasn’t interested in young players and picks; no other team was willing to give up star for star.

 

[Squirrel from Meteor Man]

Man oh man we really got some of the dumbest people that frequent these forums don’t we?

Rich Paul is an agent for AD

If Rich/AD had heard this in time, and AD had wanted to stay in LA then Rich would have done what his client wanted

The disrespect towards a black super agent like he doesn’t do right by his clients is weird. He has a huge roster of NBA players for a reason idiots

He has no power to stop any trade. There are only 3 people in the NBA who can do that: Adam Silver, Bradley Beal and LeBron. What was he gonna do? Tell the Mavs AD wasn’t gonna show up and collect his tens of millions of dollars?

 

[TrillaMonsoon]

I thought AD had a trade kicker or something that he had to approve or waive for the trade to go down? So if that is true, AD made the call without his agent knowing?

 

[cartierhoe]

The main thing that makes me think they knew is that AD waived his trade kicker. Ain't no way in hell I'm waiving off an extra 5+ million if somebody caught me off guard with a trade.

That’s what I was about to say, him waiving his trade kicker makes what Rich is saying moot.

 

[King Poetic]

Lebron is almost done so will be Paul trying to push teams around

 

[Rekkapryde]

The fact that nobody knew outside of Rob/Nico tells you that these front office people and agents be leaking shyt to the media

On purpose

But we already knew because who else would have the info. They scratch each other back for the media to help/shyt on players for their teams or clients

 

[Rekkapryde]

He wouldn’t have had a choice. Running to his daddy LeBron or step-daddy Adam Silver wouldn’t have stopped the trade from going down.

Ultimately either Rich Paul is lying because LeBron wanted AD gone, or LeBron isn’t happy with Luka being the new face of the team. Either way they look bad

Bron ain't happy but he's a professional. He's looking at his replacement next to him everyday. Wasn't informed either. Younger Bron 100% gets informed and probably shuts it down. But you 40 and you don't have that juice no more. Also believe it's the reason he's been ballin extra hard since the trade. Imma show y'all nikkaz type shyt.

Might still be the man but you ain't the King no mo.

 

[In The Zone '98]

Bron ain't happy but he's a professional. He's looking at his replacement next to him everyday. Wasn't informed either. Younger Bron 100% gets informed and probably shuts it down. But you 40 and you don't have that juice no more. Also believe it's the reason he's been ballin extra hard since the trade. Imma show y'all nikkaz type shyt.

Might still be the man but you ain't the King no mo.

If he did not have a no trade. He woulda been outta there too

 

[desjardins]

How does an agent, with no leverage, stop a trade like this from happening?
Go to media and hope fan backlash occurs before the trade? Ok fine but technically that's not stopping nothing. Clearly Dallas didn't care about fan/public backlash
Advise AD to not report in Dallas? That was still an option after the trade but AD is a class act who brought in to his new team

Basically it seems like Rich Paul is just saving face here, wasn't shyt he could do whether he knew or not

 

[Rekkapryde]

If he did not have a no trade. He woulda been outta there too

If it was him, they'd talk to him imo. But he'd say he wants to finish season and they'd oblige. He can opt out anyway this summer

 

[Cladyclad]

How does an agent, with no leverage, stop a trade like this from happening?
Go to media and hope fan backlash occurs before the trade? Ok fine but technically that's not stopping nothing. Clearly Dallas didn't care about fan/public backlash
Advise AD to not report in Dallas? That was still an option after the trade but AD is a class act who brought in to his new team

Basically it seems like Rich Paul is just saving face here, wasn't shyt he could do whether he knew or not

You dont trade your best player ever for someone who doesn’t want to be there. If Rich tells Dallas AD not gonna like it there. You not trading Luka. Dallas hoped AD would be professional.

 

[JesusFOREVER]

LeBron Rich and Silver all feeling the need to come out and say they had no idea tells you everything you need to know

 

[The God Poster]

I remember a report saying he knew Thursday and then it went down Saturday

Or something like that

This isn’t something that happened years ago.

Surely you can drop a link