Yes. Eric Bledsoe and the Phoenix Suns have STILL not made a deal. Surely somebody wants him? Is Bledsoe so stubborn that he won’t accept anything lower than the max deal? Take the hint Bledsoe! You’re not worth max!
But hang on. There may be a team for him. The Los Angeles Lakers of all teams. According to Marc Stein of ESPN.com, the Lakers are going to make a push for both Eric Bledsoe and Goran Dragic in 2015.
If Bledsoe elects to go the rare qualifying offer route, Phoenix would suddenly face the very real possibility of losing both of its two best assets without compensation in 2015 free agency.
The Lakers, for example, are just one team league sources say ?would likely make a hard run at both of them, ?based on the premise that the Suns couldn’t afford the cost of paying both at that point, theoretically making either Bledsoe or Dragic gettable. Sources say that Houston, furthermore, has Dragic on its list of potential targets next summer given how he’s blossomed since leaving the Rockets for Phoenix in the free-agent summer of 2012.
This should be so simple but somehow the Suns and Bledsoe have lost the ability to find a middle ground. Maybe the Lakers can find a way to snake past Phoenix and snatch their dynamic duo.
