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Originally Posted by ace20004u
I think offering a "non negotiable" extension would be extremely bush league in the NBA. EVERYTHING is negotiable...so to start off a negotiation like that in this way would set the tone entirely wrong.
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While I see nothing wrong with making a take-it-or-leave-it offer with little wiggle room (fyi, I'm pretty sure the Bulls wiggled in this case), I think you nailed it. "Setting the wrong tone for negotiations" is what I keep hearing from Glass and Skiles. Perhaps it was that "non-negotiable" extension offer that irked them from the get go. And once that happened, it became irreconcilable. It would make some sense of this madness. Though I'm still not ready to take Skiles side on this. He says he understands that this is business, but he's sure not acting like it.