Woj on Sportscenter "Rockets are recruiting Jimmy Butler hard and might have a deal with him"

You guys are nothing but homers if you don't believe Miami and Riley will be able to make the moves to sign Butler. It won't be any harder than it would be for us.

 

Hey your catching on.

Better late then never buddy!

 

Super easy to

 

Goran Dragic is a 33-year-old PG (a position where speed is at a premium), and his advanced numbers were bad last year. And it's not a one-year blip... look at his trend lines in PER, TS%, WS/48, BPM, VORP, etc. He is absolutely NOT a "plus" player anymore. I think a lot of fans like him because of the name and his history (especially here), and may not be aware of the recent slippage.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/dragigo01.html

Now, in this loaded FA class... you're asking someone IN WEEK ONE to commit $20 million in cap space to him. And the only potential sweetener Miami could offer is a pick 4 years from now.

I'm not saying Miami definitely can't trade him into cap space, because all it takes is one team. But I also wouldn't assume they can.

 

Look man I hope you are right and that it is too difficult for MIA to find a team to take on Dragic.

Maybe Dallas prefers Bev. Indy wants Rubio. Phoenix goes after Rozier.

@ThatBoyNick laid out a few realistic options. It’s more productive to debate the feasibility of those options than to continue to be a dismissive prick

 

Nothing is real until it's official. As Rockets fans we shouldn't be trippin over Jimmy Butler lol

 

The Luka-Dragic pairing has to be enticing to Dallas since Kemba isn’t an option and Bev has many suitors.

Added bonus is that it ensures HOU doesn’t get Butler

 

Uhh only on cf’s where someone can claim a deal is super easy yet in reality it’s not and you get offended. That’s the incredibly dumb part but yeah it’s going to be super easy. Yet another reminder. But hey instead of saying ok well it’s probably not that easy he’ll double down and call someone a dumbass for posting refuting statements that clearly say there’s plenty of challenging hurdles in order to get butler to Miami.





So we’ll either wait for the I told you so’s or a bunch of I’m glad I was wrong posts. I’ll bet on the latter

 

It’s actually much harder for them since they’re already above the hard cap and cannot be above that acquiring a snt player. So not only do they have to comply with BYC rules to acquire him. But they have to get below the apron as well. They also have less desirable contracts to dump unless they’re ok with losing get all their young guys and waiting 1-2 years for meaningnful cap to surround a 32/33 year old butler.

Hey can do it. But the path is as hard if not harder for them then us.

 

How about you investigate the players they are trying to unload money wise and get back to me? Dragic is essentially ryan anderson contract right now. He hasnt been good. They will have a much harder time moving players. They have no picks in the near future to even trade

 

I don’t think butler was going to be the answer anyway tbh. This is a lose-lose. Get butler and have no depth, or have depth and not enough star power.

I know they try hard, but this front office has just failed. It’s as simple as that. We had a very short window that was slammed shut by cp3s hamstring, and boarded up and nailed by his age and huge contract. It’s over

 

Not to be negative because Morey can make a trade work I'm sure but whose to say Butler won't say he wants L.A. or NYC after a Miami trade can't be agreed on? I say we move on if Jimmy doesn't really want to be here but if he does then make the trade. It's that simple.

 

You know, my boy @Dream Shook knows exactly what is going to happen. Somebody in the NBA will help Miami, but of course, nobody will help the Rockets.

 

The minute he cancels Houston’s meeting is the only sign they need

 

You’re just cheering for the Rockets to fail so you can be smug!

 

And that’s what we will wait on. Shams and Woj just said he yesterday that he would look teams with cap space like the Clippers and Lakers. This isn’t just about Houston.. after all of this waiting for his free agency to hit and he wants to bypass all of the other meetings? We’ll see.

 

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no space in @DreamShook

Doesn't matter how hard it is for Miami, The NBA will make it work. That stuff never happens for the Rockets even if it is easy. Nobody cooperates with the Rockets. That third team talk always makes me nervous when it comes to the Rockets. Getting the 2nd team is already difficult enough.

 

Is that supposed to be an insult?

I am proudly a Houston Rockets, TX homer! Now and forever!

 

It reads like the truth to me, not an insult.