Nuggets lost Bruce Brown last offseason, and now lose KCP...latest reports saying they're interested in trading for Westbrook Is yet another FO being cheap?
LeBron will take the max. I mean, if Harden was a consideration and he just got 30 something million, then no amount of pay cut is going to help the Lakers get Valanciunas or Thompson anyway. It was an empty gesture. We'll see.
From what I unerstand Nuggets have always been cheap. That's why Conelly got pirated and moved to Minny. They just got lucky with Jokic. Fertita being cheap made sense to me cuz Ariza was washed. Other than that Fertita has paid up includiing paying biig money to hire Udoka. He even paid to make a new gym so its kinda dumb to keep the cheap nonsense going. When Fertita was just a new owner he wasn't that wealthy so paying 3.5B for the Rockets almost made him a broke boy. But since he has double his networth I believe he is worth 7-8B now and credit to him he hasn't been cheap at all. Rockets even spend cash to buy draft capital so they are indeed spendiing to win.
It's weird to me after fallng out wth Morey Harden then siigns for just 35M. Got to be honest for that price I wish he came back to the Rockets. Rox would def be contenders with Harden, FVV, Sengun and a bunch of young athletiic defenders like Jatari, Amen, Cam and shooters like Reed and AJ Griiffn.
The Wizards can't help themselves can they its like they are obligated to give out bad contracts every off season.
Personally think it's a good deal for him as a solid starter C. Also smart to play Sarr at PF and avoid getting him banged up.
The final interesting piece of free agency is Klay probably going to the Lakers (or maybe the Clippers). EDIT: I'm also curious if OKC can close a deal with Hartenstein during their meeting today.
How is that a bad contract? They are paying him 1M more than we are paying Jeff Green. He will give you 12/8 on 62% TS, be a defensive presence and is relatively young at 31 yr old.
