I mean it kinda makes sense for them if we ignore the fact that it's unprofessional. They can get a pick out of caproom that would've just been laying around unused.
Knicks are on Plan D in free agency, which is just using cap space to sign remaining serviceable players in the hopes of moving them at a later date for serviceable players. There's really no rhyme or reason, perhaps in all the activity they end up winning some games, eventually. If not then it looks like they are 'doing something' for their remaining fanbase.
The Lakers don't even have any picks to trade anymore, the Pelicans already took care of that.
Spurs should offer Morris a G-league contract and tell him you.
Spurs might not want to go this route, but they could always just up their offer with more years and therefore more guaranteed money. Sure, the Knicks could do the same, but then you'd be back where things appear to be anyways. There is the principle of the matter that there was already an agreement in place which both sides agreed to, but apparently that's worthless, as are most people nowadays.
Knicks will sign him, buy him out, and then Lakers swoop in. All this has been orchestrated by LeBron himself.
Easy to see
Seems like he was looking for more than the market presented to him until the last 48 hrs. We were paying the most but someone came with slightly more and he bolted.
I will say that 5milli is a lot of money, but I think this change up from him reveals that we were just his best monetary option...until we weren't.
He wasn't sold on the organization or the chance to work with Pop or the opportunity to potentially surprise the league.
He's not into us.
What do the Knicks get out of buying out a guy on a 1-yr deal midseason? Come on man, use y'alls heads.
NO SIR!!! To take my comment and twist it into racism is appalling to me. Do not quote me or associate me me with false accusations.
Which leads us to the strange thing about this fiasco. Why are the Knicks apparently only offering one year? Yeah, free agency next year when he'll get paid (wasn't that supposed to be this year?).
Why not something more substantial, say a 3 year deal, which would put the guaranteed money at about $50MM? Knicks appear to just be seeking, if there is a method to their madness, to use their cap space after they struck out in free agency to acquire tradeable assets. If so, they might not be amenable to offering a longer term deal.
What's the max contract at the MLE? 4 years? If Spurs are sure about fit, why not? $20MM over 2 years after 2021 isn't that big of a deal, especially with Aldridge and DeRozan's contracts ending then. Put a player option in after the 2020-21 season.
are you asking us to fully understand the complete stupidity of James Dolan???
Agree. This is their way of getting something, anything out of the cap space which has been a bust for them.
Am kinda surprised the Spurs didn't have to offer him a longer term deal in the first place.
It’s kind of obvious at this point what he’s been looking for though.
The largest 1 year pay day and then hit free agency again next year for larger. Pure money move
I believe because Morris thinks he can make bank next summer with a bad FA class. This shows he'd only be a Spur for a year. But then they knew this, giving him a player option for the year after this one for stability.
The biggest problem, to me at least, about this Morris mess is that it means Gay plays more minutes than I would like. The chance that he's not around at 100% come playoff time is pretty significant. Morris would have let Pop manage his minutes a little more. I don't see anyone else available that accomplishes that.
Yet he was supposed to get a big payday this summer...
If he's that impressed by a little relatively more guaranteed, make the guaranteed number much larger that he'd have to turn down. Yes, it rewards shadiness, but if we're looking at a two year window until Pop retires and the team is significantly overhauled, it's not the worst thing.
I don't know how those things usually go, but it seemed likely to me that he asked for the player option, thinking that he was signing too cheap and next year wouldn't have as many huge names soaking up cap money.
Maybe Thomas Robinson and Bill Self (relationship with RC) will talk to him
Pussy league run by pussies.
While I would usually think this guy, but I'm sort of why not just offer him more and be deep as and make a run at it while Pop is here?
the spurs offered him the most they possibly could, the MLE
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