I think Frye will continue to backup Lopez at center. Stein says the Suns are the most interested team in Warrick, though he supposedly has interest in returning to the Bulls. Because the Suns can likely offer more (Bulls have bigger fish to fry) and a potential starting position, there's a good chance he signs with them. If that were to come to fruition, they'd go with a combination of him, Clark and Lawal at PF, I presume.
yup. at this point all it would take is reading the list of deals already done and those agreed to in principle. The amount of money the owners a choosing to flush through on marginal players is staggering.
They either have so much money they don't care how it is spent, or they are ing stupid, or they have a GM so desperate to hold onto his job so he's taking flyers on longshots.
Either way - that's a problem several teams have internally, not a structural problem with the current CBA.
Y! Sports Free Agency Buzz: Rockets offering Scola, Ariza and Battier in sign-and-trades for Bosh or Amar'e
bosh goes out west major props to him
also would be awesome to get scola out out texas
Amir's contract isn't too outrageous when fan reaction is factored in. Amir = 6 & 5 for close to $7 million a year at a young age.
Meanwhile, half of Spurstalk are sobbing hysterically over the thought that the Spurs won't pay $8-10 million a year to a 30 year old Jefferson who rocked the playoffs with averages of 9 & 5.
amir plays less minutes then manu!
Bosh will be gone.
yeah, but his fouls limit his time.
And unlike Ian, experience is a hard sell as the main culprit. Amir Johnson has played a little over 3000 more minutes in the NBA than Ian has.
Paul Pierce will remain a Celtic.
The club has reached agreement with its captain on a new contract, according to sources. The deal is said to be for four years, with certain options for both sides after the first three.
The papers cannot be signed or officially announced until next week.
Pierce opted out of the final year of his previous contract and became an unrestricted free agent at 12:01 Thursday. But he took that route with the intention of re-signing with the Celtics in a deal that would help his own future and allow the club better maneuverability.
The numbers were not available, but Pierce will in the 2010-11 season make significantly less that the $21,513,521 he was scheduled to receive. That will aid the Celtics’ position versus the luxury tax.
http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/sp...ach-agreement/
i wonder if that signing of a center helps confirm thisToronto Raptors have reached agreement to sign centre Amir Johnson to a five-year, $34 million deal, agent Kevin Bradbury tells Y! Sports.
http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=157709
Pierce's deal getting done is not a surprise...especially with Doc returning.
@SpearsNBAYahoo
Suns agreed to term on a 4year, $18 million deal with free agent F Hakim Warrick, sources tell Y! Looks like Amare era in Phx could be over
I don't want Amare on my team, but I can't understand Phoenix failing to keep him because they don't want to guarantee the last year of his deal, only to turn around and give 48M to Channing Frye and Hakim Warrick.
You won't risk money to be paid to Amare, but you guarantee money to Frye and Warrick?
Does that make sense to anyone?
So is this another reason that you gotta offer Tiago the full mid level exception straight up???
I mean if the Spurs were trying to save a little money to sign someone else and now Warrick gets close to the mid level then I have no idea what the Spurs are doing with Tiago.
Some how, I just don't see the pick and roll with Warrick and Nash having the same effect as with Amare and Nash.
Giving up on Amare for Frye and Warrick is amazing to me. Its gotta be personal with Sarver.
Hollinger has a nice column in today's Daily Dime. Here's a snippet that I find the most interesting, and perhaps most applicable to Richard Jefferson's situation:
http://espn.go.com/nba/dailydime/_/p.../seller-market
Do the math. We have 10 maximum-salary slots among the free-agent contenders: three for Miami, two for Chicago, New York and New Jersey, and one for the Clippers.
We have 10 players who are max-contract candidates: LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Dirk Nowitzki, Paul Pierce, Amare Stoudemire, Carlos Boozer, Joe Johnson, David Lee and Rudy Gay.
Seems like a perfect match of supply and demand so far. However, Pierce and Nowitzki are almost certain to return to their former teams. Gay already has committed to return to Memphis, and Johnson appears close to returning to Atlanta.
Now we have six players for 10 slots. If LeBron returns to Cleveland, that makes five. And we haven't discussed the possibility of Boozer, Stoudemire or Bosh being signed-and-traded to a team already over the cap -- a real possibility given the lucrative sixth year they can add on their deals in such an arrangement.
If all that happens, that means it's possible only Wade and Lee (by re-signing six-year deals with their current teams) would eat up max-salary slots from one of the teams with cap space.
Which would leave about $120 million in cap space out on the market, chasing a bunch of players who aren't worth anywhere near that type of money.
Think about it. After those players, who's next on the list? Luis Scola? Raymond Felton? John Salmons? Josh Childress? Ray Allen?
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In my opinion, Richard Jefferson probably gets thrown into that list of names at the end.
God damn twitter needs new servers bad.
@WojYahooNBA
Knicks and Amar'e Stoudemire in serious talks on 5 year, max contract; Deal could come as soon as Friday. http://tinyurl.com/2d8yzp9
With no S&T possible, the Knicks get a 'bargain' on Amare.
Knicks afraid they're going to be left out in the cold because pretty much no one wants to go there.
Why is there no S&T possible?
They have to renounce Amare in order to sign both Frye and Warrick.
It gets funnier and funnier every time I think about it.
They had to renounce Amare to sign Frye and Warrick. Genius, that Sarver is.
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