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but isnt lance>parsons?
Stephenson ended up taking less money to play for the Hornets, because two years guaranteed at $9 million per with a team option for a third year would have him once again hit free agency just as the salary cap begins to increase dramatically in light of the league’s new lucrative broadcast rights deal.
But at least one other team was interested in Stephenson, and willing to commit under those very same terms.
From Jared Zwerling of Bleacher Report:
The Dallas Mavericks, though, were interested in Ebanks’ terms. By the weekend of July 11, both sides had verbally committed to a two-year contract worth slightly more than Stephenson’s eventual deal with the Hornets, according to Ebanks. But Dallas was in a holding pattern; the Houston Rockets first had to match Chandler Parsons‘ Mavericks offer, or it wouldn’t happen.
“It was a domino effect,” Ebanks said. “Dallas did not think that Houston was going to let Parsons walk. Lance was very close to being a member of the Mavericks. When you’re a little further along into free agency, people are more in the position to pull the trigger when they see what they’re looking for.”
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.c...n-free-agency/
but isnt lance>parsons?
now that he left houston everyone > parsons
even harden's defense
srs
Can't imagine Ellis and Stephenson playing together, tbh..
I could see it, but as a guard duo and not wings. Dallas' plan all along should have been to sign a PG and a defensive SF, THEN trade for Chandler. Because they traded for Tyson early, they really only had enough room for one eight-figure contract and scraps. It would have been Ellis/Lance/X/Dirk/Chandler, with that X being a gaping hole the Mavs had no means to fill. At least their current roster doesn't have the same type of glaring weakness.
This is past the point of joking.
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