Don't think Manu is going to sign to a team where they just kicked his buddy off.
Last edited by BatManu20; 07-01-2013 at 08:55 PM.
Manu won't do it. He knows that he wouldn't be able to play for another team because he wouldn't last. The rockets would expect too much out of him, they'll overplay him in minutes and then he'll get reinjured. I hope they offer him a $10M contract so that the Spurs can let him walk.
That's cheap, surprised he didn't wait longer and try to get a better offer, he had a nice season last year, PER of 21.
NYC and playing alongside KG and Pierce was too good to pass. I would have wanted him to play for the Spurs at that $1.4 million deal.
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He got amnestied...he's still being paid around $8mil next year plus the $1.4, so you can see why he accepted quickly.
The nets look good on paper. Guess will wait while the spurs assemble the All-Olympic Team, excluding American players of course.
he gets 8mil, nets pay 1.4 of it I think?
I can't see Manu taking some bull role with Houston for a year or two.
Rocket's wishful thinking...
Hard to do a sales job when the target's on another continent.
(And you can tell Manu is desperate to listen to all comers.)
I don't understand this. They said they want Al Jefferson back too. What's the point? They were repeatedly fighting just to make the playoffs. Give Kanter and Favors PT and let them develop.
Much like San Antonio, probably even worse nobody wants to go to Utah.. It's hard to sell them on anything there..
I just had the realization that the next CBA is going to stiffly restrict free agency. We can't have all the top 15 players in the league trying to go to 2 or 3 or even 5 cities.
The super team business is going to approach the elastic limit of ridiculous and there will be a terrible overreaction of a rubber banding effect back to a normal state.
Yep. The losers in the new CBA IMHO are those mid level players whom will get less than what they deserve, I think they should have just lowered the max contract to have balance in the league.
What does "deserve" mean?
In terms of producing revenue for the NBA -- selling tickets, selling jerseys, getting people to watch games on TV -- LeBron alone is worth far more than the entire salary cap. And in terms of getting a fair wage for the amount of work you put in, even a guy with a minimum contract is doing far better than someone doing, say, road construction.
I've heard that Jersey has the best prison ass, so...
I'm not sure about that. Things like Dwight being offered a TV show are ways to go around that cap... so they take less salary but get more in endorsements... the CBA can't deal with off the court income... that's the big flaw on it...
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Following the Blazers, I thought they would try to retain him until I saw who they drafted.
I meant in terms of in-game production, guys like Landry, Gerald Henderson, Dunleavy, Devin Harris, Korver, Speights, Wellington, and Brewer. Those guys, at least for me, are mid-level contract players, but they'd most probably sign for half of that.
J.J. Red will be an underrated pickup by somebody.
It's not just the cap. I mean, and we don't have to worry about this for like 10 years when the CBA needs renewing, but the NBA could conceivably exist without any free agency. I don't think it will get that bad, but I think it would be possible for the NBA to nix signings in the interest of parity.
There just needs to be great players in places besides Miami, LA and New York. If the coming crop of players is like Lebron's class, we could see more of this "I just want to hoop with my friends," "let's all team up" lameness. The Heat could be the beginning of a horrible trend of really good players wanting to take the easy way out. The league would have to combat such a problem fiercely.
Well, you have Howard telling the Rockets they need to get another superstar... so it gets to the point where it's all about stacking the deck than working hard towards the goal.
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