It’s Rapidly Become A Norm For Young Players In Smaller Markets To Bide Their Time And Develop On Their Rookie Deals, Resign With The Team That Drafted Them To Maximize Their Contract Value And Only Then Do They Take A Step Back To Reassess Where They Are In Their Personal Development, In Relation To How The Team Is Developing Towards That Championship Winning Level Befitting Of Said Players Pedigree, Before We Hear Murmurs Of Them Wanting Out Or Being Disgruntled. Granted, For Every Anthony Davis There Will Be A Damian Lillard Or A Stephen Curry, Who Ride It Out With Their Team Regardless Of What The Odds Are, Honourably So. The One Thing That May Have Begun To Change Within This Dynamic, Is The Ages At Which The Prodigy’s Begin To Think Of Wanting Out In Lure Of Greener Pastures These Days - Giannis Has Doubled Down On The Dame & Steph Playbook, By Staying In Milwaukee And Looking To Bring Talent To Him, Instead Of Going Elsewhere To Play And Try Win It All - Which Makes A Youngster Like Zion Williamson Even More Intriguing As A Prospect, Provided The New Orleans Pelicans Get It Right In Player Acquisition And Player / Personnel Development Over The Next 2 Seasons, Zion Will Probably Become A Champion In New Orleans Before He Retires There As A One Team Player, Something Many Wouldn’t Think Would Be Possible In The Super-Friends AAU 2K Build-A-Team Era.

The Clock Has Officially Begun For The Pelicans, As It Pertains To Operation Build Around Zion & Brandon Ingram As Their Cornerstones - Having Recouped A Few Good Assets In The Anthony Davis To LA Trade, You Now Have A Situation Where New Orleans Can Feasibly Get Very Good, Very Fast, Through Trades, Free Agency And The Draft Market, While A Few Great Young Staff Hires Wouldn’t Hurt Them Much Either - The Free Agency Signings All Seemed Geared Towards Getting Better To Help Zion & B.I. Push For A Play-In / Late Playoff Seed, Yet The Team May Need A Lot More Tweaking, Before They Can Really Be Ready To Take That Next Step And Become A Perennial Playoff Team Out West... A Process That They Have 3 Years To Master, Before Hopefully Resigning Zion On A Long-Term SuperMax Deal And Making A Concerted Run At The Finals, Knowing That A Few Current Older Stars May Be Getting Towards The End Of Their Peaks, Leaving A Window For Zion To Begin His Own Reign In The NBA, As A New Orleans Pelican (For Life).

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Timestamps Still To Be Added, Askies Tog. 🏾


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