NESN's garbage. They're just taking a small point in Woj's report and blowing it up. They also ran with Broussard's crap about IT not being liked in the locker room. Stop listening to their bs. Don't be sheep.
Yeah, if anything this just kind of made me a bit more positive about the situation.
Per Woj, they're first going to ask for Tatum or Brown (negotiation tactic of starting high to assure yourself of a higher compromise price), but they're realistically looking to get one of those other firsts that we have.
This gives me hope that we'll end up meeting in the middle at something like the Clippers pick, which I'm fine with. And if you think about it, that wouldn't be all that bad given A) the extent of IT's injury, B) how far we've got into this already and the consequences of the deal not happening, and C) the fact that we could possibly have 4 first round picks in 2019, which is way too many given that 3 of them would most likely be outside of the lottery.
But, yeah, it's not realistic in any way to expect Brown or Tatum in addition to this package. There's no way in hell Danny would or should consider that. At that point I think Danny should call the NBA for an investigation, because it's becoming more and more clear that this is closer to buyer's remorse and then wanting out of the deal than a truly different medical interpretation of IT's injury.