Victor Oladipo, who is entering the final season of his contract and eligible for an unrestricted loose agent next summer, is a leading candidate for the industry before the March 25 deadline.
Or as a league official put it more frankly to Bob Kravitz of The Athletic: “He’s gone. They’re going to do it. “
This followed a November report on the Indianapolis Star that Oladipo had asked the opposing team’s players to push to win it:
Victor Oladipo asked the other “Can I come play with you?”In front of his Pacers teammates, through @ThisIsJMichael https://t. co/vcSyJVlhcB
Oladipo denied the report.
“I know there were other people who said I asked the industry for players. That’s not true, period,” he told The Athletic. “I love my teammates, I appreciate the state of Indiana and I in carrying this franchise in title. “
The 28-year-old is a polarizing figure. On the one hand, the two-time All-Star was a third All-NBA team in the 2017–18 season, with an average of 23. 1 points, 5. 2 rebounds and 4. 3 assists consistent with the game while shooting 47. 7% in the area and 37. 1% in three. .
He seemed like one of the NBA’s most productive players that season, and general managers whom Oladipo can get back to that point will actually ask about his availability.
On the other hand, injuries have limited him to just 55 games since this season, and he has never really replicated that playing point. Coupled with the fact that this is a threat of asset exchange for a player in the last year of contract in the face of the threat of wasting them for nothing on a flexible agency, and pacemakers would possibly have difficulty getting the most productive price in exchange for Oladipo.
Anyway, it turns out that Oladipo’s time at Indy is coming to an end. The Pacers already have a total of $82. 9 million in downtown Malcolm Brogdon, Domantas Sabonis, Myles Turner, TJWarren and Jeremy Lamb next season, spending the maximum dollars on Oladipo, which he hopes could leave the Pacers in a long-term wage crisis.
And the threat of wasting it for nothing as a loose agent is too great. A divorce the season is inevitable.
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