However, Jordan, as a free agent, owed the Mavs just as much as Turkoglu owed Portland and if you consider loyalty a factor, maybe even less than Brand the Clippers and Boozer the Cavs because they played for and left those teams.
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It was a surprising reversal for Jordan, the defensive pillar who agreed to a four-year, $80 million deal with the Mavericks last week. So he began chatting with his ex- team, the Clippers, who sent out seemingly the entire roster to Jordan’s Houston home to try and convince him to remain in LA.
According to Sports Illustrated, Clippers power forward Blake Griffin tweeted a photo of what appeared to be Jordan’s chair up against a door during the team executives’ meeting with him on Wednesday night.
Per Stein, the Clippers believe Jordan will be signing the dotted line and returning to Los Angeles.
Listen, we had one priority this summer, and that was to re-sign DJ, and we missed out on that. It was a picture of Rivers and Jordan signing the contract. They did sign Matthews to a four-year deal but only after Monta Ellis (Indiana Pacers) and Tyson Chandler (Phoenix Suns) found new homes. “Driving around downtown HOUSTON begging (thru texts) Jordan’s family 4 address to DeAndre’s home”.
DeAndre Jordan is headed to the Dallas Mavericks.
DALLAS (AP) DeAndre Jordan gave the Dallas Mavericks his word. Wouldn’t it make sense then, wouldn’t it be the honorable and professional thing, to call the Mavericks and Cuban and inform them of your decision to hang them out to dry? No members of the Mavericks organization were permitted in the house, they never got another meeting, and were totally iced out. On July 9, players can officially sign the deals they negotiated during the moratorium.
Jordan has led the National Basteball Association in rebounding the past two years and is coming off career highs in scoring and rebounding at 11.5 points and 15.0 rebounds per game. While it’s an unwritten rule that a team doesn’t pursue a player once he has verbally committed to another team, there’s no way it can actually be enforced and a punishment realistically issued because such a contract is unofficial. Seraphin has made it clear he wants more playing time in addition to a raise from the $3.89 million salary he collected last season, his fifth with the Wizards. If he had announced early he was staying with the Clippers, teams – including the Mavs – may have changed their strategies.
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Reminder: The deal between the Clippers and Jordan can have a huge backlash and as ESPN’s Marc Stein tweets’ the moratorium period will never be the same.
