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Morey making his pitch in person
http://my.nba.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5800027750
Despite their injury situations, the Rockets have done a great job in recent years of scouting guys who would/have fit their team and its system quite well.
Morey making his pitch in person
http://my.nba.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5800027750
i dont think throwing 3-4 mil/year for a few years at a decent big man prospect, who can rebound and play d, will hurt our team for years.
True, but if you throw 5 years, $30 million at him, that contract can become an eyesore real fast.
morey has never thrown a contract that long at a role player. i don't see him starting now. he was only willing to throw 1.75mil/year for 2 years at von wafer...but that could have also been because of the fact that wafer is a ing bonehead who had to be sent to the locker room in a playoff game.
For your sake and the Rockets sake, I would hope that you're right. The only thing I was going off of was the fact that Gortat looks to be the Rockets #1 target, and I have a feeling someone will offer him close to the full MLE, with at least 4 years on the deal. Will the Rockets match or exceed that? I guess we'll know soon enough.
The guy has double-double potential, and he gets blocks and steals. What are the other guys who do that in the NBA getting paid?
linkA third Texas team, the San Antonio Spurs, also was making a play for the 6-foot-11 center from Poland who spent the past two seasons backing up Dwight Howard with the Magic. Other teams that have expressed interest include the Oklahoma City Thunder, Indiana Pacers, Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks, a league source told ESPN.com.
Not a bad idea. He is certainly not a bad backup option. We would probably have to make a move for one more big though.
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Restricted free-agent center Marcin Gortat was scheduled to fly to Dallas on Thursday after giving the Mavericks a verbal commitment to sign an offer sheet with them next week, according to NBA front-office sources.
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Sources told ESPN.com that the Mavericks are bringing Gortat to town to tour the area and the team's facilities after extending him an offer believed to be worth Dallas' full mid-level exception -- which could translate to a five-year deal starting at roughly $5.6 million -- in hopes of dissuading the Orlando Magic from matching the offer.
Gortat averaged just 3.8 points and 4.5 rebounds per game last season and 3.3 points and 3.2 rebounds during the Magic's run to the NBA Finals, but his opportunities in Orlando were limited behind All-Star center Dwight Howard.
Since free agency commenced at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, Gortat has received strong interest from the other two Texas teams (Houston and San Antonio) as well as Atlanta, Cleveland, Indiana and Oklahoma City, sources said.
Orlando will have seven days to match any offer sheet Gortat signs next Wednesday, which is the first day free agents are allowed to sign new contracts. The Magic have stressed their intent to match offers for the 6-foot-11 native of Poland but doing so would almost certainly send them well into luxury-tax territory.
Marc Stein is a senior NBA writer for ESPN.com.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4303432
Is it possible they're making such a push for him because they know Bass is leaving?
Either that or they have plans to ship Dampier out.
Them getting Gortat is not good at all....
I don't like Gortat game so I'm happy to see the Mavs spending their whole MLE on him. It'll be Eschmeyer part II
I like it for Dallas, but only if they make another move involving Dampier..
I think Gortat fits on Dallas better than he does on most teams. But damn, 5 years full MLE is a lot for that guy. Of course if Cuban thought Desagana Diop was worth 5 years full MLE, and that Jason Kidd is still worth $8 mil per, then I guess this shouldn't surprise me.
Indeed. He is basically a better version of Dampier for a lot cheaper.
Per Broussard on Sportscenter, the Spurs may have offered Gortat the MLE.
the bad news: if the Magic don't match, it's pretty sure that they will push even harder for either Sheed or McDyess and this can't be something we should be happy about.
but don't forget that the Magic just traded away Battie, they are very thin now up front. if they don't match, they risk to loose out on Sheed and McDyess, who might chose Boston, SA, Houston, Cleveland. and this players also would cost MLE (=same number in lux tax).
so I think they will swallow this contract and match. the risk not to do it is to big.
Yeah...I don't like the timing of this either. I think Sheed needs to be the priority right now.
The same Broussard that said Wallace would probably sign in San Antonio and that Ariza is going to leave the Lakers? Sorry, but he doesn't carry much cred in my mind. I doubt he knows much of anything about the Spurs intentions...
It doesn't look like anybody knows what the Spurs are doing, as usual..Wallace isn't talking either..so they're just looking for any news to talk about right now..
Yeah he said the Spurs are not interested as much in Sheed as people may think and that the Spurs are targeting Gortat with the whole MLE instead.
Every offseason it's always the same: teams overpay.
I wouldn't hate getting Gortat...but I think a trade would need to be made to acquire at least one more decent big.
Haven't you been the one pimping Gortat the last couple months?
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