Zion Is About To GET CUT By The Pelicans!!

Zion Is About To GET CUT By The Pelicans!!

Time for the Pelicans to move on from Zion. Yeah, it’s been time. Yeah, I think they uh they got two new two new studs over there where they’re like Queen, you know, we got Fears and we got Queen. Yeah, Queen. And we need to go in a different direction. We can’t put all of our part resources vocal around Zion anymore if he can’t be healthy. I mean, obviously, you would love for him to be a part of this this nice little trio we could have, you know, with, you know, at the four or five, but, you know, he just can’t stay healthy. So, if you can get something back for them that can add to your roster to help them to, you know, build on their confidence and build their game, then you got to you got to you got to make that. I mean, this is the time to because you got two guys that are future stars, both of them. Resigning in the third year of the 5year 97 million extension he signed back in 2022. obviously has a bunch of weight clauses on it and other things where they don’t have to give him all his bread, but it don’t look like he’s it they don’t I mean it doesn’t look like he was performance based I think. No. Yeah, I don’t think he’s been breaking. No, no, I’m just saying but they have ways to protect some of you be how long? Wait, he had a weight cough. I would be hitting He had a weight cough. Yeah, according to reports. You better hit benchmarks. You better hit benchmarks. You had to meet I think for for weight, body fat, but also I think games played too from season to season. gave him the option to void the contract, man. Damn. Yeah, it’s time to get traded in just Damn. Way clos. We can’t even We can’t even Yeah. Ain’t even defend them in a sense. Ah, damn. Just got to get out of here. Especially since you see the other two, you like a Yeah. Send them to the Clippers. Oh, need to go somewhere. That’s probably the That’s what bring all the [ __ ] that’s always hurt. Huh? Put them on the Clippers or another team. That kind of clippers like let people disappear, man. Who do you move him for? Huh? That becomes a question. Who Who would you want to risk? Power. How tall is Queen about 610? Yeah. Would you go? Is he playing five or four? Zion and Herb Jones with Fears for Jiren Jackson and John Mor. Wait, wait. You trading fears already? No, no, cuz you can bring bring in a point guard. Oh, bringing in though. John Jiren Jackson. Now your teammate. Wait, how is the rest of the team? Nike ain’t going to got Herb Herb Fears and Zion going to Memphis with Zit with Zack Edy. [Music] And then you bring Jiren Jackson and you got Queen. You got Alvarado still there backing up. It’s a whole new look for both sides. But that’s just the least I’m talking about. You’re looking at two assets that are trouble assets that they need. They both sides want to get off. I don’t want to trade for one. Yeah. They both want to get off. I want to trade my [ __ ] up car for your [ __ ] up car. That’s what they ain’t that the conversation they having is about Trey Young, John Morant, and LaMelo Ball all saying that they’re all negative. All getting rid of switching just switching teams with each other. Like y’all take him, we’ll take him, we’ll take him. So if J you I mean you throw Zion in the mix with that and you say, well [ __ ] just throw just throw Zion in there. I’m trying to get the scenario to send him to the Bulls. It don’t make no sense right now cuz they don’t got money. But John Memphis. Yeah. Well, well, Zion’s going to be tricky because they can void his contract. Oh, yeah. Right. So, get him by the Jeep. Get him. Miami. What about Miami? Wait, wait. How does that send him to Miami? Wait. No. How does that contract work exactly? Yeah. So I’m reading Pelican avoid the non-g guaranteed portions of Zion’s contract after the 2425 season which we’re done uh because he triggered a clause by missing too many games. Okay. So they don’t have to pay him now. The final three years of his contract were already made not guaranteed uh starting this season due to FY to meet a games play threshold in the 22 23 season. So it’s not guaranteed. So what is this [ __ ] playing on? Right. They’re still paying him but they can at any point be like they can take it off. They could cut it. Yeah. Yeah. So, they’re not going to do that to get their bread basically, but they’re not they’re not going to do that. So, they’re going to trade him. Now, when he gets traded, that’s still in the works. Yep. That contract. Yeah. Oh, can they cut him and resign him? Yeah, that’s what I about to say. Can’t somebody cut them? They can cut them and resign. But they have to wait a year, right? If you cut them though, why am I going to resign with you? Yeah. I’m talking about somebody saying we’re saving money. No, the Lakers could take some money. No. No. What I’m saying? I mean, I don’t think they’re gonna do this, but the problem I mean, it’s gonna be somebody who’s looking to save money. It’s so it’ll be okay. So, whoever wants to dump money, that’s who’s going to trade for him. So, basically, they’ll trade their let’s say $40 million worth of players. Boom. When he gets there, cut him. Who’s they? So, they they they give the book and then then he’ll just be a free agent. New Orleans point guard fears and Alvarado. Yeah. Okay. No. Okay. So, who who’s desperate to who’s desperate to dump cash right now or dump uh uh the Sixers Wizards [ __ ] So, Cath currently have a payroll of 232 million. Knicks are 211. Warriors at 211. Mavs at 208 was a 205 be nice. Yeah, Cavs according to Cavs at this point probably need to reacculate money so they can build because the team they have no mess up the No, no. Because they’re they’re they have a very high salary cap, but they don’t have the real talent to win a championship. So what you can do now is say, “All right, we can trade you these two players for him.” Right? So that’s 40 million. They get back 40 million, but they can cut that 40 million. So they cut that 40 million. Now they got $40 million in free agent market. Their tax bill estimate 163 million. I mean, so now they can go out there and be big ballers now. So sorry, another side note. Zion contract get cut. Do anybody pay? Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. that M do anybody give him big money after that? They don’t have to. No, they giving him the same type of contract. No, like like Okay, let’s say he’s proven him play, but he can go anywhere he wants though. That would be dangerous. That’s what I’m saying. He could go anywhere he wants. But who who has salary cap? Cuz it all depends on what he’s going to want to sign for, right? Cuz he can sign for the vet, man. I don’t know if that would be allowed. That’s what I’m saying. Because if they cut him, he he could he could. But you know, you know, based on that, you know what’s so funny is that you get investigated for that. Let’s say you have a value of 20 million a year. You go to free agency and you go somewhere, it’s time for the vet ma’am early. Mhm. That that that’ll be investigated. Okay. But that’s just showing you got to show your worth. It’s like a like Ben Simmons. Yeah. Why? Like if you go into you sign a minimum because of why. But no, but but that’s the reason because of things like that. They don’t want you to salary cap is the most important. Take a year. You got to take a year to show your worth. Right. Right. Right. So I’ll sign a vet minimum. Right. But but I’m worth 20. But I want to sign a b minimum. You’re investing because I want I want more. Right. I want more. I got to prove I got to prove it that year. That’s what I’m saying. I’m saying no profit. He wouldn’t have to sign a vet minimum because I’m gambling because I’m taking a risk. No, but there’s other deals out there and you taking as minimum how much they pay you under the table. Cuz I’m pretty sure you get way more minimum. Remember, everyone wants to dodge your salary cap. So instead of me giving you $10 million of salary on books, I’d rather give you nine in your pocket, one on the books, because one on the books, I can go get another Yeah. Go get some other guys. And that’s for that year. Yeah. For that year. So basically like the deal that Kawhi did. Yeah. Okay. to be able to get Paul George. Don’t you like to plant trees? So, it it’ll be it’ll be really tricky because whoever it’s it’s kind of easy to follow. Whoever wants to dump salary, whoever wants to dump salary for next year or get ready for the 2027, he is the perfect contract cuz you can let him go and you can let him go and sign him back. Wait, I can cut him off 40 million and then say, “Hey, I give you 20.” You can do whatever to the Spurs. He was signed for a vet minimum after he cut that money. Send him to Dallas. You think he was signed for a vet minimum? You could send him to Dallas. He definitely need to go somewhere where So, funny you say that. We’ll talk about that in a sec. So, he’s getting 40 million this year, 42 million next year, 44 million. No thank no 40 million, right? He do pay 40 million. I get him for 40 million and just like um Fred, right? I say, “Hey, I’m gonna cut you. I’m gonna cut you.” Is that what they did? All right. I’m going to cut you. Well, if we’ had a team option, they basically say, “Or I’m going to cut you.” Yeah. You’re not getting this bread, so take this. So, he can say, “I’m going to cut you.” Instead of getting the 40, I only want to give you 20. Take it or leave it. Obviously, what’s the incentive on the back end of that 20? Is this I’m taking the 20 for this one year and we going to renegotiate after this? Cuz the 20 on the books makes sense for our books. Yeah. But after this, I know you going to want more. Especially if you play wellact we do something. You play well. Yeah. You know what I’m saying? So it couldn’t be no long-term deal on the books for that 20. It got to be one year 20 like when James got [ __ ] up. Remember they in uh in the sixes. You got to remember he don’t have the leverage right now. So he can he can be put in a situation where whoever gets him is going to cut him off that original deal and then see if they can add. But if he says no and then let’s say he wants to go to OKC, he can sign for whatever he wants to. So then he becomes a problem in free agency or not even free agency, just in the open market because he got let go. Now he’s avail,000. You got a million. Yeah. Yeah. He got to take whatever I’m signing. And then he go there sign. They win a championship. He has decent numbers going into free agency. He gonna be getting at least 20 million. Well, hold up. Ain’t that based on your market value at that point? So, if you think about market value with him with his resume and his injury prone, it’s way more than that minimum still. What we talking about? 10 20. He’s 20 at 26 and 14. But you play half of the game since 20 2019. Less than half. Like we literally as a organization on a team like that, [ __ ] all that every game. That’s what I’m saying. 50% of your games you done missed based on your weight problem and whatever as an organization you doubling that like we the owner’s doubling whatever we’re paying. It’s on our books. It’s going double. So we got to think about it like nah if the market value saying ain’t nobody else out there going to give him what he asking for. You mean when they gonna make that back when he when he when we cut that 20 and he’s like all right open market free I can go anywhere we gota we can give you five we can give you yeah yeah yeah give me but that’s going to be contingent on everybody offering him that right if the first team come up and give him like we’ll offer you 15 now he know that’s his evaluation right then does but does he take that 15 to go another situation that potentially he don’t want to [ __ ] with or no I can come over here listen and it’s not if it’s not a situation he wants to be in and they offer him 22 and four, right? It’s never been about his performance. No, we’ve never knocked him for his performance, just his health. Yeah. Now, who has the healthiest team? Is it Golden State? Probably OKC. I mean, Stephanie, I’m about Jaylen Williams, but maybe without Brown and Aaron Gordon right now, right? So, everybody’s pretty [ __ ] Everybody Yeah, everybody’s pretty [ __ ] Okay. probably I’m just saying in the last in the last like in the last like five years what team what team most of their players always are healthy the Knicks have the best uh medical staff okay even training staff and leave which they got from Dallas so now so now what ends up happening is the team itself don’t give a [ __ ] about your history because most teams know they don’t have what we have that’s a mediocre franchise that’s bottom feeding franchise. So we get him even though he’s played less than half or half. We’re not worrying about that because we not them dummies over there. Yeah. We’re going to turn his whole [ __ ] around bigger. So if he averages 26 in over there with that [ __ ] he come to us. He’s a superstar. Bigger market. So Nicks would probably if they know they have the best if they got they got one of the best medicals for sure all the time. They will go after him and they might [ __ ] around and not cut him his contract. They wouldn’t give a fuckion for OG. So now it’s just right now for OG straight up. Now what happened with you now? Here. Now here’s a gangster move. Yeah, I’m about Yeah, I’m about to say crazy. Hold on, hold on, hold on. What happens finals immediately? Now let’s say if you Knicks, the bread matches up. The bread matches up with OG. Very. Yeah. [ __ ] Now you have two plays here. If you are the Knicks, but OG and you know you sitting with um Giannis and you sitting there, you got a link to Yiannis. You know what you’re trading. You are personally thinking about who you can trade with them. Okay. Uh with uh Pelicans, okay? And you’re having a conversation with with with Zion like, “Look, we want you long term, but look, we’re trying to get Giannis, too. So, we got to make this deal for Giannis. When you get here, we’re going to cut you and we’re going to pay you. We’re going to resign you back for this. Right. Right. Right. Right. And then we’ll give you your big contract or whatever. But we need Brunson deal. Right. That’s the Brunson deal. And now you will sit now you will sit there with Listen, we’ve seen Stephan Katnis and big super team. because we seen Stephan K because you know he wants to be that’s he wanted to go to the Knicks originally that’s the next team finally New York that’s that’s ridic I’m going you might have but so funny is you might have to throw in JCart you might have to throw in JC Bridges I’m trying to keep at all cost I said but you might have to throw in you you losing four of them you’re losing for those starters. What? But you’re getting back Zion. And we keep Mitchell. We keeping Mitchell. No, you’ll probably get rid of him. Let’s see if you can keep Wait, wait. So, what would the team be? Actually, it all depend. Giannis, Zion, Brunson, Brunson, Hart. You probably got to get rid of he on the bench. He’s What I’m saying is I’ll probably try to keep male. I’m trying to keep male for Yeah, that’s what I’m saying. It’s either Mel or Hart. [ __ ] If you get rid of Mitchell, you talking about Mitchell cat, huh? And Hart, where would Hart fit? Cuz see, you know what? I probably will have to keep Hart only because he’s a glue guy, and he can he can play anywhere. He’s like the the the guard Draymond Green, right? Where offensive rebounds, defense, pass. That’s right. That’s right. I was about to say that cuz now you got you got you got to shoot. He just don’t shoot. That’s okay though. That’s okay though. You got enough. You got enough though. You got enough staging on two two forwards already. But we need somebody to go out there and guard 94 ft. Go do all that [ __ ] Nah. We got We got Zion Giannis and [ __ ] Brunson, bro. That’s enough scoring. Packing the paint. He shoots about 30 shoots 38%. He packing the paint. Packing the paint for sure. Packing the paint. Yeah, but he can still shoot it though is what I’m saying. He can still put it in the hoop though. Please shoot it. I I’m sticking with Muel Bridges and I’m [ __ ] with uh young fella McBride off the bench. Shout out Duce McBride. We got Clarkson off the bench. And if we got to get rid of Mitchell and all them, hey, we got Zion and [ __ ] Jiannis. Like Brunson already saved you money to do it too for the future. And then if you can get if you can get whoever gets Zion’s contract heart, it’s cuz Zion might get hurt and you might need that four man to come in. That’s the only way I’m thinking of keeping heart. Like whoever whoever gets him, they going to save a lot of money. Play all three of them. It’s going to change your It’s going to change their contracts. No. But that’s a different type of look though. You talking about Giannis, Zion, and Brunson in New York. Nicks be running around. Yeah. Knicks be cracking. Cracking. Zion. Stay healthy in New York. No gumbo, but some some fine culinary offerings throughout. What? Oh [ __ ] it’s already 132. Damn. Yeah. Damn. Got away from us. Yes, it did. Go. I wrapped this [ __ ] up. Time flies with your having

Zion Williamson Is About To GET CUT By The New Orleans Pelicans according to Gilbert Arenas as Gil & The Gil’s Arena Crew react to Zion going down with another injury and discuss the next move for the organization and their highly dissapointing superstar. With contract protections in place and another dead season in the books it’s all but likely that the Pelicans will choose to trade or cut their former #1 overall pick, leading Gil & The Crew to debate where Zion will continue his career landing on teams with elite medical staffs and reputations for reviving players like the New York Knicks and Miami Heat.

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