Two teams are far over the cap next year and may want luxury tax relief and we have the cap room to acquire a good player in return. The Lakers have Howard and the Nets have Lopez. I'd rather pursue Lopez as a starting center than Howard. What say you?
It's Dwight/CP3 or bust for Morey. Pau Gasol would be the backup plan if they strike out on either of those two. Pau's contract is expiring in 2014 and he would give the team a legit post presence at the 4 or even slide to the 5. The main thing here is to still be one of the top free agent bidders in the summer of 2014. Just take a look at that list and tell me its not worth waiting an extra year for considering we're the youngest team in the league. We can afford to wait.
Prokhorov is one of the richest NBA owners. Les is one of the poorest NBA owners. I don't see why nets give him up. Prokhorov is not averse to paying the luxury tax unlike Les.
The post is fine, pretty accurate EXCEPT do not ever link Owner Alexander and poorest in the same sentence. The Rox owner has spent fairly IMHO and has made honest efforts with his franchise. Question his decisions, fine, but he hasn't bailed ever that I can recall. I don't know Mr A's real net worth but can believe it to be 3/4billion$ +/-. That. Ain't. Poor.
As always. He's actually a pretty good big in this league and still is fairly young. I just don't want no part of that contract of his. Same case as with offering players like Josh Smith max or close to max contracts. I'd rather save the cap room for the summer of 2014 by renting Pau Gasol for the 2013-14 season.
The Rockets problem with its bigs is not just rebounding per se. It is the inablility to consistently finish in the paint from passes into them. I see at least 4 shots that are fumbled/blocked/missed per game b/c of this against decent teams.
No, I don't see us helping out LA in any way. We can cut a few players to get close enough to the max (maybe even trade a few away for future picks). Trading for Dwight does nothing to benefit anyone but the Lakers.
