That tweet saying accrued? That mean rockets have to pay his buyout what is the that suppose? Probably lot, and it hurt the cap?
That fabled EG + Favors trade was never going to happen. I explained it in a string of posts between @theDude, @Williamson and myself starting here: Realize that the money adds up to a contract between the 12th highest in the league and the 50th. Look at the list of players in the link above .... they are either not attainable or not worth the cap hit. There is no realistic trade that stands out.
You might want to rethink that. He's spent $100m in dead money in the last two seasons alone. This team and last years team were right up against the luxury tax line while winning 20 games and not being expected to win many more than that this year just so Stone can stockpile assets - both players and picks. Tilman's put up a heck of a lot of money for Stone to orchestrate this rebuild.
I think Tilman has changed his approach in the Stone age, which is a good sign. Maybe he has now realized he should just let the GM do his job and not meddle in something he is clueless.
Probably more going on related to the release of Favors than we can see. Favors might have privately requested out etc. I've said this before but Boban is not a scrub and really can produce in short stretches.
We were never gonna get a trade for Favors. Dwight is more serviceable (slightly less useless) and is sitting at home doing nothing. The NBA is deeep talent wise. Washed up vets are worth minimum contract fliers not assets.
Exactly! I was the first to criticize him for his cowboy hillbilly talk, ego and those family pictures in the arena. But now that he’s changed his approach and actually gives Stone literally everything he needs to create a family, putting people over money, I’ll be the first to be praising him. Under Leslie you would not have had any of these young guys, we would be treadmilling and w/ Morey worried that any second a guy would be traded just to get a pick out of it, out of a contract or take a flier on a prospect rather than keeping the team together.
I appreciate what yer sayin... and prob pretty true... but things happen... ie Draymond slugs Poole... GSW needs to pay Poole.... Ego + Favors = Draymond.... Depending on the market for Draymond... if GSW has to move him to pay Poole.... im not saying i'd target Draymond or anything - but nice to have flexibility to entertain the possibility... Obviously my hope is that we use whatever capspace & capital we have to improve our roster - but if we have flexibility for someone to dump an unwanted contract (not worth the cap hit) - and pay us for the deed - ala us trading Lin.... With all the space we have next year - im guessing we could prob eat an overblown 2 year contract - and still have uber space for a max contract(s) next year... As long as the dead weight is gone by the time we need to pay the rooks... Could also be a scenario where we want player A (5m contract - due for a new fat contract - like Poole) - but the other team insists we take contract B ($20M) off their hands as well.... and the Ego/Favors combo gets it done... i expected us to move Ego for an injured Rubio last year - and pocket an asset or two... so i appreciate what you're saying... but in the infinite number of possible trade scenarios i have to believe there is the POTENTIAL for some fortuitous opportunities - if we had the flexibility.... and the flexibility woulda cost us nothing but the roster spot - dead money anyway.... my hope is that we made the move for good will with Favors... hopefully we earned some good pr by letting Wall go... if we are making these moves to improve how players view our mgmt (post Morey using players as assets) - then fine... but from a purely analytical point - we shoulda held Favors...imo...
I guess I hadn’t watched much Utah or OKC in the past couple seasons because I thought for sure he’d have enough value to net a 2nd round pick in a salary semi dump exchange. I guess he really has dropped off. If he’s that bad now it was a good decision.
But did he? Sure Chris Paul rebounded better than expected with the Suns - but his relationship with harden wasn’t improving. I’d also argue the suns team was fine with Chris’ diminishing foot speed - where it spelled disaster for the rockets because we werent athletic or big enough in the front court to make up for two shitty defensive guards.
