Donuts had a good stretch a while back that got me excited about the guy. He was a legitimate seven footer with skills and a decent team defender. DMo just hasn't been able to stay healthy. I can't believe Morey would have tossed in the towel on a talent like that unless there was a real good reason. A bad back can be bad news.
Yeah, someone tried to use the "That escalated quickly" joke with Feigen in response to his announcement an hour ago of renouncing rights. Jon has a sense of humor that I like.
The TL;DR version: BJ screwed up, Morey took advantage of that screwup and worked the CBA rules to get a new contract done, which the Nets thought was sketchy and had the league office invalidate.
I'm really disappointed. I will be interested to find out what really happened. Must have been something wonky about the way we tried to sign him.
And a very short version for Newlin, since he's not reading your long and TL;DR versions (@topfive and @DreamShook) BKN cocked blocked us, after we cocked blocked them.
That's my original thought, but only with the difference being the Rockets are going this route actually as a way of giving D-Mo a chance in free agency rather than tarnishing his name by publicly failing his physical. If my theory is right, the Rockets found some troubling data, and went to the league with BJ about their options for contractually getting out of the offer sheet where everyone can be happy, and BJ probably wanted to fight this on his end too because he knew that if the Rockets reject Donatas it will be really bad for his client, and I would think his offers in UFA will be worse now because of this. In this case, the Rockets are doing D-Mo a solid by going this route rather than publicly failing him even though its impossible that teams interested in D-Mo wont ultimately come to this conclusion as well. Have to really feel for Donatas here. This has to sting.
I understand that he might have a messed up back, but the deal we signed was so good that we could have waived him immediately If we wanted to. There has to be more here than just a failed physical.
That's what you get when you try to steal milky ways from our local hardworking folks. DMo should look into working with Steve Francis.
I would have never had thought that Trever Ariza would be back with the Rockets after we traded him to New Orleans after one season. Yet here he is knocking down Thrizas for the rockets. If Dmo can get his head out of his ass and stay healthy we may see him back here one day.
I'm thinking BJ and others probably whined to big brother league office that they're getting picked on. Then like others said they told Morey "We don't like how you guys can just restructure the deals on the fly, you found a seam but we dont like that. Either you match the Nets offer sheet unchanged or renounce him". Then Morey said no I'm NOT gonna do the March 1st guarantee on 2nd year and no trade flexibility. So Morey said no and washed his hands of all of it by making D-Mo unrestricted, and its fair for all sides, instead of going through another round of RFA. (And yeah probably is some physical concerns too) If D-Mo was 97% not a health risk probably none of it even happens and Morey gives him a 2-year guarantee deal last summer
Everyone is like good riddance. No big deal.Quite the opposite!.. C'mon.. Did you not watch him play before he got hurt? He HELPED carry this team and was, "becoming" ...On top of that, he's a great guy....most of you all loved him when he was healthy. And for us to lose his trade rights....I realize we are rolling and don't need distractions, but we should have been able to wait and move him..worst case scenario. This is NOT cool. The league interceded. Whatever his health, the Nets not being able to sign him and us losing him as a UFA smacks of dirty deeds and a BS resolution...no matter what is said publicly.
From a cap perspective yeah it didn't really matter but its still a multi-million dollar investment from a company perspective (Les' pocket book), and the potential heavy medical cost if he was likely needing surgery again this year if they saw issues. They also know that the next red flag that gets raised about his health will likely kill his career. If they think he's damaged goods, and they want to give him a chance to prove them wrong, the best thing to do is this rather than sign him only with the notion of not keeping him anyways since he's gone after the year is up either way. Not saying your wrong that something else doesn't sound "fishy", but just played devils advocate here about how I could see how it could just be the physical not passing that cause a series of decisions to be made after laying out all the directions they could take at that point.
My personal theory is that the the league felt that the second contact violated the spirit of RFA process and Sliver came in and dropped the basketball reasons hammer. Thats just speculation on my part though.
