Thanks. Everyone will offer that to Asik. Are there any financial benefits to hom staying with Chicago.
If nothing happens this summer, you have Kevin Martin's near 13 million expiring contract as well as Dalembert's 6.7 million expiring if his team option is picked up.
If the Magic flame out in the playoffs, Dwight will no doubt be on the trade market next year again. It's hard to imagine them improving that much in the next year when they made zero moves at the deadline. Keeping Dwight for another year was huge for them, but they have to win big to keep him, or pull off a major trade with no real assets to offer.
Are people beginning to understand? You need to draft a star this trying to stay competitive and rebuild on the fly is not working. Even if there are FAs available like Bosh who says they are going to sign here anway?
I don't quite understand, so if you could, please explain in detail how we will start tanking and rebuilding this team. Where is this star in the draft we're going to get, and how can we put ourselves in the best position to get that star? Hmm?
okay so im just starting to learn the financial side of the NBA can someone please explain unrestricted and restricted FA's to me? what's the difference?
You trade away your vets and play the young guys. Scola and Martin should have been traded for any expiring contract to allow more minutes for Lee, Ppat, Parsons, Twill, etc. Obviously with such a young and inexperienced team you're going to lose some games, just make sure you lose enough to get a top 3 pick. Now you have experienced youngsters, cap space, and a top pick. Guys like Rose, Durant, Griffin, etc. these players are drafted. Not signed for or traded for. Once you have one then it becomes easier to entice another star to your team via FA or they demand a trade.
UFAs we could go after: Steve Nash only if Lowry is traded and Dragic not signed to extension Ray Allen if Martin traded and Lee not signed to extension Lou Williams* if Martin traded and Lee not signed to extension Gerald Wallace* if Parsons traded Kevin Garnett only if we gut our PF position in trades Kris Humphries only if we gut our PF position in trades Carl Landry only if we gut our PF position in trades Chris Kaman Spencer Hawes *Early termination option/player option There are also a few RFA worth pretty big paydays, highlighted by Eric Gordon and Roy Hibbert. Always hard to get RFA though.
The foremost difference is that the present team of a restricted free agent has the right to match any offers and keep the player.
My guess is that there is a distinct possibility that the Rockets simply retain their own FAs (assuming the contracts are reasonable) and save any other "cap room" they have left for the purpose of facilitating a trade in which they accept a salary dump for some consideration. They'll chase a big name or two for sure, but those are always low probability events given that pretty much every team with cap room will be chasing the same few true stars. Failing that, I'd think they match any reasonable offer that Courtney Lee gets, try to sign Dragic to a reasonable (like MLE-ish) deal and perhaps try to trade Martin in the offseason to clear up minutes for these two (and to clear additional cap room).
Who are the franchise players in the upcoming draft? What if we think we're getting a franchise player, but we get OJ Mayo instead? Do we have to keep waiting every year for that franchise player to fall in our hands? That seems like more than luck than anything, as having a top 10 or even top 5 pick doesn't guarantee a marquee player. All the while, Houston will continue to lose even more fans and we have to stomach horrid basketball season after season. There's also no reason why we can't trade for a low pick in the draft sometime in the future. Tanking is one way to do it, but not the only way, incredibly risky IMO. I'd rather take the Pistons route to a championship.
