Yup. Was very good (although inconsistent) for Miami last year. I think Miami will miss him, although it will give Winslow the opportunity to shine. Having said that, I wouldn't re-sign him for $18m a year.
As a player acquisition, it's not a great deal. But as a mentor and locker room guy, I dig it more than the Mozgov deal. Lakers need to prove to free agents that their young core is something to build around for playoff contention. It's not gonna happen anytime soon so they pay premium $$ for older vets. Bazemore was offered slightly more than the Atlanta deal, but to him being on a playoff contender and Georgia's lower state tax was worth more to him. Next CBA will be interesting though, owners will cry foul (even with all the tv money) and the PA will demand more. I'd like to see a measure where state taxes are factored into the cap consideration; teams in CA should have a higher market cap than say TX.
How the heck are you a Grizzlies fan I always thought you were from NYC?
I wasn't really following the NBA until 2010/2011. Around that time I happened to watch the Grizzlies Spurs series. Read up on them, fell in love with their philosophy and story. Been a fan ever since.
If I'm Cuban, I'm looking at tanking next season and having as much cap room as possible to make a run at 2-3 high profile FAs.This free agency window has been crazy so far. Those deals for Mozgov, Evan Turner or Solomon Hill. Imagine we'd had something like that in football, the caf would be in complete meltdown.
I'm surprisingly happy about the Hawks deal with Howard, expected something far worse. 3 years is a perfect time and 23,5/year is reasonable compared to other deals (I mean Conley 5 years for 153, wtf?). Not sure about the Bazemore deal tho, I like him but that's just too much, even with the new cap.
Mavericks look screwed, I wonder if they do a complete rebuild and Nowitzki goes to the Warriors?
Yeah most definitely, Deng is not a bad deal. Good for the locker room and good mentor for the young guys, especially Randle.
I don't think signing a prime free agent star this season or the next is in the plans. Right now, it's about building around the young core of Clarkson, Russell, Randle, and Ingram. It's more about having cap flexibility when those guys become RFAs or UFAs. Of course with the cap increasing again, adding a marquee free agent isn't completely out of the question.
It's a good team but to get to conference finals there'll be some work to do although Spurs have an old team and Thunder could be dismantled soon, so who knows. In the East you'd probably be looking at becoming a top 2-3 team shortly.
Just read about that. Maybe he'll break out on a team built around/for him, maybe not.
the max.
35% of the cap, if its a 10+ year veteran i.e. LeBron. He's holding off though, and he'll get something even more insane when the cap goes up again next season.
So we could/will see someone get a $33m a year deal, $160m deal.
It's more than that, it's actually $177m.
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Eh, probably but these super teams never really hit the ground running as well as they look on paper. How are they going share the touches, what happens to their interior defence etc.
I don't think they'd find a problem with that being coached by Kerr.
They just won 73 games and still did not win the title.
I know, but can any team match them again after they add Durant? Green-Durant-Thompson-Curry, Just those 4 playing together is crazy, I mean they'll be upgrading Barnes with Kevin fecking Durant.
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If they get rid of Barnes and add KD, Warriors should be the favorites for next season.
I'd say they'd still be favourites even without KD based on the past two seasons.
Yep but it's quite evident that they'd have beaten Cavaliers with Durant instead of Barnes.
I am just saying these "super teams" are never as dominant as we expect them to be. The big 3 Miami Heat lost in the finals twice.
Yep of course it's possible but with Curry, Thompson, Durant and Green you basically have a full blown dream team with very few weaknesses. You'll have to count on at least 2 of them having a stinker to have a chance against them, and even then you still have 2 incredible players against you. It'd be better than big three of Miami.
It's between OKC and the Warriors imo. My gut feeling says Warriors.
Isn't Lil'B a GSW fan? Kd isn't going to the Celtics to play with Horford and Ish when he has the option to play alongside Green, Curry, and Thompson.
