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hey, who all is going to the Mavs parade next June?
hey, who all is going to the Mavs parade next June?
I dont understand why the Mavs want to keep Josh Howard. The only logical explanation is that there isnt anyone better out there to get to replace Howard. The Mavs still need a legit #2 scorer to take that next step. Marion/Howard/Jet are all nice 3-4th option type of guys. If Howard is your true number 2 guy, that doesnt bold well especially in the 4th where his ppg dramatically go down. I am not hating on the Mavs. I just feel they still need that true #2 guy.
The Mavs were deficient at the 2 and 5 last year. Well Gortat addresses the 5, Marion is our new 3 and Josh is our new 2.
Umm who gives a damn if Howard isn't a true 2. He's played it before and did fine.. Do you guys not remember who our 2 was last year? in' Wright, I mean if he can start the 2 for us and we can still get 50 wins, just imagine J-ho as our 2 and Marion as our 3. Not only that, but Gortat (hopefully gets signed) looks like he could be a great player.
So really it's no question that we have gotten better. All we gave up really was Stack who didn't do anything for us last year. Nice offseason!
I mean, I wouldn't mind flipping Howard for a guy like Rip Hamilton, but I doubt he's available even w/ the Gordon signing, and who knows if that even works under the CBA. Howard at the 2 is fine.
You don't want Rip's contract.....he would be an upgrade over J-Ho but the financial burden is too much.
Is Breath actually something everyone in Dallas calls George?
The George story is funny he ed over his team and then they resigned him
Hey that just reminded me: breath is a part of this trade. How do we know he's not gonna whip out some righteous Bird Rights-fu on everyone's asses and put a stop to this madness?
yeah I know that I just wanted to know if the Breath thing was city wide or if it was just a nickname on ST.
They're trying to get it all done in the middle of the night in the hopes that he won't find out until he's on a plane to Toronto in the morning.
I think he's a Terminator programmed to block any big Mavs trade.
http://twitter.com/chrisbosh
Apparently Chris Bosh isn't a big Shawn Marion fan. He doesn't mention him once and even refers to it as the "Kris Humphries trade"
Stackhouse, Devean and Wrong all gone? Praise Allah!
He didn't come out for our pickup game either. Pussy.
Where's the Matrix?
Nice job getting one of the Spurs' certified es in the playoffs.
Spurs are the Mav's cheap s....Marion gonna get a chance to gang-bang em nowNice job getting one of the Spurs' certified es in the playoffs.
lol is that the only thing you can say about the spurs last time i checked the mavs were the spurs es with all time record against each other, and its been 2-2 in the playoffs between these twoSpurs are the Mav's cheap s....Marion gonna get a chance to gang-bang em now
as much as i see the mavs being better than last year(due only to the fact that houston wont be strong), i can see the mavs having a 4th seed season and be guarnteed to make the playoffs and not be a borderline team this year
mavs look good but not as good as LA and SA
Spurs and Mavs is gonna be a great one again, regardless of high and mighty the team's fans think they are.
The Toronto Raptors and Dallas Mavericks agreed in principle Wednesday night to a complicated four-team sign-and-trade deal including the Memphis Grizzlies and Orlando Magic that will land Shawn Marion in Dallas and Hedo Turkoglu in Toronto, sources close to the process told ESPN.com.
The teams have scheduled a trade call for Thursday.
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The Raptors and Magic agreed to handle Turkoglu as a sign-and-trade for two reasons. First it allowed the Magic to acquire a significant $8 million plus trade exception. Second, it allowed the Raptors to retain their mid-level exception. The Raptors are now free to spend their full mid-level on another free agent.
Several other players including the Raptors' Kris Humphries and Quincy Douby, the Mavericks' Jerry Stackhouse, Devean George and Antoine Wright and the Grizzlies' Greg Buckner are part of the trade according to sources. The Grizzlies will be getting Stackhouse, Douby and cash, sources said. George and Wright will end up in Toronto, according to the same sources. Humphries and Buckner are on their way to Dallas.
Including Humphries, Wright and George in the deal gave the Raptors the financial incentive to do the sign-and-trade. Both George and Wright are in the last year of their contracts. Humphries has two years left on his current deal. In addition, the Raptors are in need of a two guard with the departure of Anthony Parker to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Adding Wright to the mix gives them a credible starter until rookie DeMar DeRozan is ready to contribute.
Dallas is hoping that the combination of Marion and Orlando restricted free agent Marcin Gortat -- along with the re-signing of Jason Kidd -- would greatly improve the depth and flexibility possessed by a team that won 50 games last season and advanced to the second round of the playoffs before losing to Denver.
Mavs owner Mark Cuban has said for months that he was prepared to be as aggressive as possible this summer as opposed to waiting for the free-agent bonanza of 2010, when Dallas was initially expected to have substantial cap space. Orlando retains the right to match any offer sheet to Gortat but the Magic are widely expected not to match.
Sources say that the Mavericks, meanwhile, are determined to keep Josh Howard even if a trade for Marion can be worked out, with Howard entering the final year of his contract. One potential drawback for Dallas is the fact that Marion would be yet another key member of their core over the age of 30, joining Nowitzki (31), Kidd (36), Jason Terry (31) and Howard (who turns 30 next April).
Sources say the Mavericks' plan is to play Marion at the three and move Howard to the two. The Mavs will also sport other looks with Howard at the three, Marion at the four and Nowitzki at the five.
Marion earned $17.8 million last season and was traded for the second straight February when Miami sent him to Toronto in a swap for Jermaine O'Neal. He went from Phoenix to Miami one year earlier in the Shaquille O'Neal trade.
The Raptors were intent on re-signing Marion if they couldn't win the Turkoglu sweepstakes, seeing late-season signs of promise in Marion's collaboration alongside Chris Bosh and Andrea Bargnani. Sources say that the Cavaliers, despite their recent pursuits of Trevor Ariza and Ron Artest and a well-chronicled need for a combo forward, were not making a hard push for Marion.
it's ridiculous to en le the Spurs in the same line with the Lakers. Even though the acquirement of Jefferson will definitely bring this team so much athleticism which is the most needed to the old Spurs, it's still pretty clear that the Lakers are superior to the Spurs. With Tony Longoria playing as the starting and only real PG, the Spurs don't have any guy like Kidd that can feed Jefferson the ball for scoring. Probably Jefferson will get traded in the middle of next season for a couple role players that can strength the old bench of Spurs team.lol is that the only thing you can say about the spurs last time i checked the mavs were the spurs es with all time record against each other, and its been 2-2 in the playoffs between these two
as much as i see the mavs being better than last year(due only to the fact that houston wont be strong), i can see the mavs having a 4th seed season and be guarnteed to make the playoffs and not be a borderline team this year
mavs look good but not as good as LA and SA
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eerily similar video (though the passer is using his right hand and the finisher his left):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_98oCDaxII
bdictjames' avatar:
eerily similar video (though the passer is using his right hand and the finisher his left):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_98oCDaxII
Watching Kidd and Marion vids already?
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