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>and i actually think NO is on the right track and Davis stays where he is
also, every supermax eligible player who's been actually offered the deal has taken it. wall, russ, harden, KAT. every single one. the eligible guys who've been traded weren't offered the deal in the first place, in all of those cases the team wanted to move on.
NO will obviously offer it, and I don't see any way he turns down that kind of bag. dude's not going anywhere anytime soon.
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"This could be the season when Davis becomes the best player in the league.
Davis went to another level after Cousins tore his Achilles in January. He averaged 30.2 points on 51.4 percent shooting, 11.9 rebounds, 2.2 assists, 2.0 steals, and 3.2 blocks in the last 33 games of the season. Instead of falling out of the playoffs without Cousins, the Pelicans got better. New Orleans had a net rating of plus-10.7 in the 576 minutes that Davis and Nikola Mirotic, whom the team acquired before the trade deadline, played together. The Pels’ offensive rating (112.4) would have been no. 1 in the league over the whole season. Their defensive rating (101.7) would have been no. 3.
Trading for Mirotic allowed Davis to play center in smaller and faster lineups that fit how head coach Alvin Gentry wants to play. Those lineups were unleashed in the playoffs against the Blazers, when Gentry moved Davis to center full time. Portland had no answer for Davis, and the higher-seeded team was swept out of the first round. Davis averaged 33 points on 57.6 percent shooting, 11.8 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 2.8 blocks, and 1.8 steals in the series. He scored 47 points to close out the Blazers in Game 4."
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/8/15/17689932/anthony-davis-pelicans-are-we-sure
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