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Pumping up? have you been following the thread . multiple posters are saying rich paul is a abd agent because he didnt get Bledsoe a max contract or convince him to take a qualifying offer.
Paul went to bat for Bledsoe and got him a much superior deal than what phoenix was trying to pay.
I think it went more like..
Paul " you can take the 70 or take the qo and we see what we can get ya on the FA market.
Bledsoe " ill take the 70"
A bad agent would of persuaded bledsoe to sign at the first offer.
Paul isnt doing anything different than fegan had been doing for years. Once Paul is established and shown his commitment. teams will be less likely to lowball his clients.
stinging along talks is the best play right now. demanding meax is the best play right now.
hopefully it nets in a compromise. but ultimately the sign or take qo decision will come to Thompson
Much superior deal? Oh my, that's really funny. They were trying to get him the max.
You really are believing delusion at this point, aren't you Torn.
By the way, the Timberwolves were willing to pay him the max.
http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/1...-bledsoe-max-contract-sign-trade-phoenix-suns
The 4 year, 63 million dollar amount would have guaranteed him more money per year.
Not more than the Suns deal and Bledsoe would have been stupid to accept that, given the Suns did offer more.
And we will never know what the Suns REAL number was. It was reported 48, which is Sarver being a penny pincher. He's cheap as it comes. It doesn't mean that he wasn't all along willing to pay 70 million.
Another article.
"Bledsoe had planned to sign a one-year qualifying offer worth $3.7 million with the Suns at the end of this week had a deal not been reached so he could be an unrestricted free agent next year."
Doesn't sound like it was security they wanted. So again, Paul by all accounts failed his client. Could have gotten a much bigger deal.
Didn't really have anything to risk, given he had already gotten hurt, and there was still a good enough market for him.
That's an agent making an mistake.
I am pretty sure Bledsoe isn't that happy looking back on all this, knowing he could have gotten paid another 24 million.
So in sense, he didn't get a way superior deal. Not even close. They got worked.
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