Still can't help but wonder if Kevin Love at $18,000,000 on the first year of a five-year deal, and never LeBron's boy, and providing skills that overlap other players on the team, is our end goal. Not that I want to lose Ariza in such a transaction, mind you. And maybe the delay in signings (Jet? Chuck? Harrell) has to do not only with that hard cap, but who to sign for how much so you can include them in December / January deals.
If the Cavs and Love didn't AT LEAST want to give it another year and postseason run, I don't see why they wouldn't have back in July agreed to S&T him. One can only logically think that they are at least in it for one more, hopefully healthy, playoff run with the Cavs, Lebron, Love, & Kyrie. Does Morey still have him on his list... maybe, but I doubt he's projecting him as a target any sooner than June of 2016 if the Cavs aren't successful again, and Love still isn't playing up to where he wants to with them. That being said, you're point about getting tradeable contracts could be a point. I don't doubt that Morey will be looking at his roster now having abilities to make a mid season trade to explore upgrades. However, I think its going to be more in line with a Brewer-type deal than a superstar trade. Just my opinion.
I don't see anything else the Rockets could do for the rest of this off-season. They have quite a bit of flexibility, and they should keep it that way for Durant in 2016.
i would trade jones and beverly for a solid 4 or 5 if they were available. Thats assuming Jason terry decides to come back.
Still think DM is waiting to pounce on PF Ryan Anderson once New Orleans realizes their ceiling is scrapping for #8-11 seed in West until they reload with another young, core superstar to pair with ADavis WHY HOUSTON - His $8.5M is expiring, so he won't mess up any DM FA contingencies - Has already proven to be effective fit next to Dwight in ORL - He is the PERFECT fit as vet backup TRUE stretch 4 this team has needed forever (led NBA in 3's w 166 in 2012, then 2nd next year w 213 - career 38%) WHY NEW ORLEANS - Won't be back in 2016 after paying AD + Asik + Ajinca all that money this year just to play 15 MPG as 4th big in rotation - Rumored as the leader to offer KJ McD a RFA offer sheet this summer - TJ played with AD at Kentucky, and can replace RA's mins at 4 immediately (with much more upside) - We know DM drafts for trade value first, not on-court fit with current team (Canaan, Nick Johnson ...) I think by DEC he will be on the block Seems that a package of KJ ($3.3M) + TJ ($2.5M) + Dekker ($1.7M) would get us close enough to match RA's $8.5M in a trade If Morey can manage to get a future 1st from someone else, or get 1 to NO in a 3way somehow ... C - Dwight / Clint PF - Donut / RA SF - Ariza / Brew SG - Harden / Thornton PG - Ty / Bev That is as deep a 10-man rotation as anyone in the league
You might be right on all points. Naturally he could have simply walked if another team like the Lakers or the Knicks had come calling. Maybe they did but he demurred, but usually teams' interest in big free agents is no secret. Unless the Lakers' chasing after other players would have made Kevin Love seem a consolation prize after the LMA and DeMarcus dreams fell through. Of course, Love is coming off an injury and a semi-crap season. But he got a decent contract. So now it's up to Cleveland "management" (such as it is) to see how he plays and fits in. But they have huge cap commitments now, even for the 2016 season when the salary cap jumps. Hell, they haven't even re-signed Tristan Thompson yet....not surprising, given how much they've already spent; but they won't just let him go, either. So if Thompson is great at rebounding (and makes, say, $15,000,000 per season) and if LeBron plays 3/4 and shoots nearly 40% from the 3-point line, Love might be a luxury they don't really need. Some offer that bolsters their depth could be in order, but then again, maybe they're willing to pay a heinous tax bill in order to win a championship.
No I don't. I don't care when people attack posts. What I care about is when posters don't talk basketball but they talk about other posters. test............... Morey is trying to make another move here. We need another upgrade before we get to any midseason upgrade. There's a reason why Dekker, Harrell, Jet, and Hayes haven't been signed yet.
Morey keeps his cards very close to his chest. The Rockets let out a smokescreen that they weren't interested in Lawson, and then boom it happened. No one knows what the Rockets are up to. Dekker by the way has signed a 4 year contract with the team. All we can do is speculate. If the team gets better with another move, I am all for it. I have nothing personal against you, or anyone else.
There are smokescreens and there are smokescreens. Rockets weren't interested in Lawson when he was owed 2 years and $25 million. They were interested in him as an expiring contract with options. Some things do get let out of the bag.
Anderson was terrible last year. His defense has always been TERRIBLE. I mean really bad. Can't rebound. On offense, he can only shoot the 3... and he wasn't even great at that last year. He was pretty bad shooting the ball most of the year. If all you can do is shoot 3's, you better be a dead-eye shooter. He wasn't even close to that last year.
basketballholic is an insider, I know that because... I am an insider too, good buddy of Daryl's actually. He said he feeds basketballholic misinformation.
You didn't acknowledge saleem telling you that Dekker has signed a 4 year contract with the team. Why?
