Anthony Davis Decides What Type Of Contract He’ll Sign

What will Anthony Davis do next season? His career plans are making headlines lately.

Anthony Davis will be given the opportunity to sign a contract extension with the New Orleans Pelicans, but many say that he will not stay with his current team for too long.

ESPN’s Zach Lowe says that NBA teams are convinced that Davis will agree to series of short-term deals and earn all the millions he would normally get when staying with the Pelicans.

“LeBron’s comments and subsequent leaks — supported hours later by comments from Davis to Yahoo’s Chris Haynes — that money will not drive Davis’ decision could have freaked the Pelicans into accelerating their timetable on potentially trading him. (Those comments weren’t shocking. I have been predicting for months — including most recently in a Dec. 15 television special with Adrian Wojnarowski — that Davis would turn down the supermax if New Orleans offers it. I would still predict that today. Davis’ representatives surely know how close they can get to supermax money by cycling through short-term deals until Davis locks in the largest long-term contract — a strategy interested teams expect Davis to follow, sources say.)

“The Celtics are lined up as the Lakers’ prime competition for Davis, but due to a quirk in the collective bargaining agreement, they cannot trade for him as long as Kyrie Irving is also playing under a designated player extension — effectively until July 1.”

According to Lowe, both the Lakers and the Celtics are interested in Davis’ game. Los Angeles has all the assets to seal the deal prior to the offseason as the team has a lot of young talents to trade. Who is leaving the Lakers? We already have a few names popping in our mind. Is Brandon Ingram on this list? Maybe… Some say it is Lonzo Ball.

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