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Tim Connelly's Rejection May Have to do with Ted Leonsis Selling 1st and 2nd Round Draft Picks than a 5th Year

Ted Leonsis approved Ernie Grunfield's trade of Andrew Nicholson, Marcus Thornton, and their 2017 first round pick to the Brooklyn Nets for Bojan Bogdanovic and Chris McCullough.

Bojan was a rental and McCullough was a throw in so Ted and EG could "Try" to save some face by saying we got a former #1 back in return. McCullough ended up being trash. Which we all already knew.

This trade was 100% about saving the Wizards $18million. It was basically the Wizards gave a 1st round draft pick to the Brooklyn Nets and the Nets gave the Wizards Cap Relief.

That was a heck of a pickup for Brooklyn because they used that pick on Center Jarrett Allen.

The Wizards have also in the past sold 2nd round draft picks. Instead of making a pick the Wizards took in a couple of million dollars in return instead. The problem with this is that money is all Unaccountable. Ted can just pocket it. Cash for a player with no cap ramifications. The other team gets a player and the Wizards roster gets NOTHING.

Don't think for a second that Tim Connelly doesn't know about these patterns Ted Leonsis and his Wizards of using valuable assets to save some money.

Ted Leonsis has proven that he does not have deep pockets for the Washington Wizards and that he is willing to go so far as to sell team draft picks.

That is probably the #1 Reason Tim Connelly is not the General Manager of the Washington Wizards.

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