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Originally Posted by Mecca
When you have to negotiate directly with a player it isn't hard to get hurt feelings. A GM and an agent can talk about upside and downfalls and why said player falls into a certain tier.
It's much more precarious when you have to tell a guy who thinks he's your franchise player he isn't as good as he thinks he is.
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But the guaranteed contract issue was not about belief in the player, that was about front office people belief in themselves not to do something that is not worth the risk to the team and that the player does not really need.