As has been stated before, the players that have demanded trades have ALL been under contract and easy to trade. Also they all had team issues not related to contracts and the teams were ready to part with them anyway. We've been over this...
ZERO of the cases involved a blockbuster trade combined with a contract reset like AD is trying to do. ZERO. The actual correct comparison is to see what has happened to players that held out as a result of being unhappy with the tag. It happens. None of those guys were traded. The closest was Gilbert who was not actually traded.
Someone can spin history all they want. But for the history to be relevant, it has to match the current circumstance.
As far as losing cap. Well not really. If AD doesn't report, he doesn't get paid. Unused cap will roll over to the next year and get spent then. So its not lost, just deferred a year. No big deal.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 07/28/2018 09:43AM by CeeZar.
