Erm?? You say he's not one dimensional, but the only other dimension that you offer is his defence (he's not a terrible defender, but he's not a great one either). His main skillset is to score. And he's not elite at it. I DID suggest at the time of the trade that Memphis might miss his ability to 'get his own shot' on occasion. So I'm not saying he's garbage, if it wasn't for his contract I doubt many people would have an issue with him. Also, 'untradeable' contracts tend to get moved for expirings. In the end, what Memphis brought back was 2 role-players and an absolute project (Daye). Detroit happily shed some salary to facilitate the deal Toronto gladly took on a scorer at the cost of a backup big man (Ed Davis - who has been outplayed by Amir Johnson most of the season anyway, but was being 'featured' because he's younger and therefore might have more trade value). Personally I don't like the trade from Memphis' point of view, like it for Detroit and Toronto [which marketable player will ever sign in Toronto anyway?]. But if you think about Memphis just breaking up one bigger contract into some smaller ones, then it kinda makes a bit more sense from them. Hasn't seemed to kill them so far!
Off-topic but I'm wondering how much he'll get with his second contract. It won't be the max, but I think some team is going to give him a deal that pays $10-$12 mill a year.
They could. Biggest reason they don't is there are 4 other guys on the floor who are NBA players too.
Would be overpaid. He's a Jason terry / Ben Gorden caliber player...wouldn't offer him more then 9mil per... But you're probably right.... A lot of overpaid players in the nba
No he was not used to his full strength because they are now a half court team and they traded for a lower cost player. A win win situation.
He's already ready doing it. Shouldn't you be asking the question the inverse, that means the opposite.
Regardless of what you think of Gay.... He's not even close to Durant...and for that, what is an utter fool.
yeah because durant is a choker in the final seconds of the game, winning time. Durant is the epitome of a front runner.
