Awesome and honestly the best thing that could've happened this off season except for getting you know who. Loyalty seems to be a big thing with Harden and Les coming to his defense is the kind of stuff that seems to go a long way with him. Management knows that Dwight was bad for Harden and are showing that with this extension, trying to trade him last season, wasting no time removing the banner, etc. this was always Hardens team and I'm glad the organization is proving that to him. Wish we could get Boogie somehow.
1. Really smart move by Daryl. The security of Extending Harden and keeping him happy is more beneficial than any $9-10 mil type of player the remaining cap space could bring. 2. Good recruiting tool in that the organization knows how to do players right. Example paying Harden. Letting Parsons out early. Etc. 3. Sets a precedent to other organizations and forces them to address their star players why they aren't doing something similar. Ex: Boogie, Curry, Davis etc. Thus even if we don't get that player, it pressures an equal playing field instead of having a tram with Curry getting paid less than market value and allowing them to soend that money elsewhere.
why exactly aren't u happy? We had capspace this summer and didn't get any star. What good we were going to do with more 10 million this year? And next year if we didn't do this, NO star would commit to us with Harden's future in question in the team. Also teams will have millions of capspace. There is bound to be a reaction after the beating of the Montars superteam are going to give the league. Right now we have made sure that at least Harden is not going to leave the Rockets and end up in some big market wiht other super buddy friends in two years.
Harden will opt out and resign in Houston for the 5 yr super Max like he should and he will go down as the 2nd best rockets of all time with 13+ incredible years. There's nothing bad about this move this is great we kno the direction everyone is on board now they can focus on basketball.
Can someone explain to me why this is a bad cap move besides the 10 million we lose this year? He was gonna opt out next year anyways right?
If you're not watching then they're not your team! GTFO of here! I don't wanna see your ass on here celebrating if/when we have a title shot in the future! Fans like you piss me off! If you're EVER willing to stop watching, then you're not a fan!!
This is just les and murrey showing good faith in him to allow him a pay raise and only extend him an additional year. Its a very un-morey like move, which is weird but we are talking about a top 5 player. His existing contract had him here for 2 more years with the last year a team option at around 15 per. If he leaves after the 2018 with his player option, he would become the biggest ******* in franchise history, after being shown love like this. Then again this would raise him to a tier 3 player and would give us the chance to give him another year and more money than anybody else could offer on his next contract. So this was a power play to show the NBA we were committed, willing to pay out of loyalty and that we would secure him for an extra year and also allow us to have his best option when it comes to the next big contract dealings.
They can still match an offer sheet on DMo if they choose... <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Harden renegotiation has no impact on the free agency of Donatas Motiejunas. Cap hold for DM stays on the cap and still a RFA.</p>— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) <a href="https://twitter.com/BobbyMarks42/status/751865517896499200">July 9, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Harden renegotiation has no impact on the free agency of Donatas Motiejunas. Cap hold for DM stays on the cap and still a RFA.</p>— Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42) <a href="https://twitter.com/BobbyMarks42/status/751865517896499200">July 9, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
It's not a $9-10M player that's the difference (today that money gets you Austin Rivers or Garrett Temple), the real opportunity cost is when a team is $9-10M short on a $25M/$30M player. But I agree, the price is heavy but paying it is still gonna be worth it if Harden performs at the near MVP level (the same with any contract, really). It's up to him and the Rockets to show upcoming free agents how they should want to play for the team.
Nope his old contract had no player option. He was already locked up next 2 years. We just delayed it for a 3rd year.
