You've been on the Warrior's dick all day. Its okay to post once about them being a possibility, but you continued to mock other users, acting like you know its happening for sure. 2012 Class may be the worst, but you can attribute that to LOFs, not me. I'm a true Rockets fan.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>It's hard to believe the Warriors would give away future first-round picks to dump contracts if they weren't sure they'd sign Dwight Howard.</p>— Alex Kennedy (@AlexKennedyNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexKennedyNBA/statuses/352937389787848704">July 4, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Where are all the "Warriors have no chance" homer trolls now? Warriors clearing cap room to sign Dwight is nearly impossible without dumping some of the talent that make them attractive in the first place. Their future 1st rounders are worthless if Dwight Howard signs with them and you probably don't have enough of them to dump both Jefferson and Biedrins. Maybe Bogut lands you a 1st somewhere else to be attached to Jefferson or Biedrins? It's tricky. They may well be making the salary dumping calls in order to get Lakers to engage in a S&T, though. At this point, the Rockets seem to be Dwight Howard's fallback option at best.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Lakers aren’t trading Dwight Howard. Would rather let him walk and save cap and tax $ to lure free agents the following season.</p>— Brett Pollakoff (@BrettEP) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrettEP/statuses/352938834692026369">July 4, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Who said he met directly w the rockets? I love how we have all these arm chair NBA execs who are aware and fully understand the intricacies of the NBA CBA. Your opinion means NOTHING. zcity could be full of **** for all we know but I know for certain you don't know a ******* thing, so stop acting like you do.
At this point its 1. Dwight already knows but is dragging it out because he's an attention w**** 2. Dwight legitimately doesn't know, and is still carefully considering his options. Considering his past history, i wouldn't be surprised if its 1.
GS is trying to ship out 3 of their largest 4 contracts - Bogut, Jefferson, Lee or Biedrins to get under the cap - they are current at 70.8 million for next season (renouncing Jack and Landry)- Dwights starting salary next season is just under 20 million so for GS to get Dwight outright they need to be about at 40 million They need to shed about 30 million of their cap - the 4 above combine to 47 million in contracts. Ideally they would like to deal Lee seeing how he has 3 years left on his deal but chances are no one will bite on that. That means that Bogut, Jefferson and Biedrins would all have to go which is about 33 million in contracts. Now teams that are significantly under the cap can absorb their contract but to ask a team to take on a large contract for one year is going cost GSW big time (especially if limits the acquiring team's ability to make other moves afterwards since they would not be that far under the cap) if they are able to move all 3 somehow by giving up future unprotected picks (and you know they will have to be fully unprotected with other teams GMs knowing they have all the leverage) they would have to somehow come to these deals in a very short period of time. IF they dont move all 3 they will forced to send back a contract to the lakers - and the lakers even if its an expiring contract are already over the cap and will have to pay the repeater tax on it. So a 9 million dollar Biedrins is now suddenly you're paying close to 20 million for him. They are NOT interested in that. They would have to at that point send back either Barnes, Thompson or preferrably Curry and GS is not interested in that it appears. Golden State is trying to do their part - by trying to shed their contracts if you have a chance to get a player like Howard you do pull out all the stops. But if you ask me - they are going to be significantly under the cap in that summer of 2014 and can sign a max FA then while keeping coveted 2014 pick. They maybe the safer play - of course the reward will be far less (unless that max FA is LeBron) How GS will fill their bench afterwards will be a mystery too. But there are too many factors that rely on other teams - not just the Lakers to make Howard to GS happen - thats why I believe it wont. And again will Dwight want to take the significant paycut to play for GS? The smaller 4 year deal with the same CA taxes? For what its worth this drawn out process is more for the agent than anything - he is playing games with everyone while acquiring favors for himself. Keeping GS, Dallas, Houston and ATL in all of this is only helping those franchises raise their profile - he can use that in the future when he needs that favor back. Media perception of teams will greatly change how things go for a team. Its being played quite well by Mr. Fegan and Co. right now
