[Stein] Rockets Latest DMo offer "multiyear starts at a fully guaranteed $7m in Yr 1"

Many other 'ORs' possibilities

Right? How does one quantify (from buckets of manure tossed upon walls)?

Russian hack effect. Possibly...

 

Do you believe DMo is a moron?

 

Does DMo believe you are a moron?

 

Yet, mor eye-ronics

 

Now that he cant be traded this season I guess the play its to make the rockets match.

I guess the play from Dmo's side the whole time was a multi-year deal with no trade in season 1.

That is the only thing he has achieved by waiting this long. Besides loosing a month of game checks.

 

Why are they calling teams? I thought dmo had a huge offer on the table?

 

Wow! DMo & BJ are laughing now... They just beat DM at his "cap game" --> match or save the room for a "star"? (Thanks to Anderson's contract -- the irony)
The mouse is starting to kick the cat's "ASSets"

 

Oh, BJ is just now doing his job in November/December?

Negotiations between the Houston Rockets and Donatas Motiejunas have hit another impasse ‎that leaves the restricted free-agent big man with an uncertain future in Houston, according to league sources.

Sources told ESPN.com that the Rockets pulled their most recent offer to Motiejunas on Tuesday night, deciding that they had kept it on the table long enough without being able to come to terms with the Lithuanian forward.

Motiejunas, meanwhile, is "surprised and upset" that no deal has been struck nearly five months after free agency began, sources said.

ESPN.com reported in early November that the Rockets had unofficially established Nov. 23 as their own internal deadline to have Motiejunas signed. That's because Wednesday was the last day players could be signed this season and remain eligible to be dealt on the league's annual trade-deadline day, which falls on Feb. 23 on the 2016-17 calendar.

Sources told ESPN.com on Nov. 4 that the Rockets were offering a two-year deal starting in the $7 million range but with only the first season fully guaranteed. One source said Wednesday that the Rockets -- assuming talks are ultimately revived -- would likely reduce their pitch by at least $1 million in Year 1.

Sources said Motiejunas' camp, convinced that the Rockets have undervalued him, has been trying to drum up interest in his client from the handful of teams around the league that possess the cap space to present a representative offer sheet. Houston, though, holds the right to match any NBA offer the 7-foot, 223-pounder receives.

If Motiejunas elects to play in a foreign league this season, he would remain a restricted free agent, which would continue to give Houston right of first refusal to match any NBA offer Motiejunas gets.

‎Motiejunas could have made himself an unrestricted free agent next summer had he been willing to play out this season on Houston's $4.4 million qualifying offer, but he let the qualifier expire Oct. 1, hopeful that a long-term deal would eventually materialize.

The Rockets have been unwilling to guarantee more than the first year of a multiyear deal in a nod to the 26-year-old's injury history. Houston traded Motiejunas to Detroit in February, only for the Pistons to void the deal and send him back to the Rockets because of a failed physical stemming from Motiejunas' back troubles.

"You always move on; we're not waiting for him," Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni said Wednesday night. "You try to develop guys and develop roles and we are doing that."

"At the same time, he's that good where if things change, we'll welcome him in and see what happens," D'Antoni added. "But again, this is a time that he has to get good with himself, because it is a business and the organization is a business.

"Players have to do what they think is best for them."

The Rockets are off to a 9-6 start and have weathered Motiejunas' absence, thanks to the strong contribution they're getting from ‎young forwards Sam Dekker and Montrezl Harrell.

http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18126545/houston-rockets-pull-offer-donatas-motiejunas​

 

Ok so how is Dmo on top now?

 

Amusing. Momo's camp feels he is undervalued by the Rockets, yet they can't get one decent offer from any NBA team. He needs to realize that the entire league values him way less than he values himself.

 

DMo probably isnt returning to Houston. If some other team offer 8mil for DMo, Rockets have no reason to match it, as he isnt tradable this season.

 

The only thing he gained was the ability to not be traded in year one of a multi year deal.

If he signed yesterday to a multi year deal, in January Morey could decide to send him to the bucks or were ever he felt like.

Now Dmo has the ability to prove to Harden and MDA till the end of the season that he adds value to the team and that Morey should add him to the core and keep him long term.

Had he signed the qualifying offer in October he would have had to chose between having his freedom in July or the possibility of having a career ending injury and never getting a contract again.

In Dmo's mind waiting thing this long gave him the most of what he wanted.

 

He is no longer a tradeable asset to the Rockets this season. DM has to use other "assets" to fill in the holes of the team and use the cap space from next season to sign DMo. When he gets his offers (or makes them public) the Rockets have to make real choices not ones they can trade out of at the deadline--> the Rockets less likely to match--> freeing DMo from the team that trade him and then overpaid for a player to play in front of him.

Basically he has made DM stick it up his ASSet by just waiting him out and staying healthy and fresh while doing it.

IMO he will be on another team in a week or so. Well played by DMo and the team he signs with.

 

I just don't understand all of the resentment towards morey on this from so many fans. Why would fans want the team to be in a position where they couldn't improve?

 

I think the rockets will match any one year deal that does not put them in the tax. We are a Nene or Capela injury way from having serious wholes in the front court. Also if Dmo does flourish we have his bird rights at the end of the season.

 

Hard to tell who's not willing to pay, DM or Le$$.