I hope and pray to God that Darrel Morey has as much basketball knowledge as business sense!! I am very troubled about the news of our interest in Josh Smith, a decent player. but not even an all star and certainly no where near worth near the money he is asking!!! If you have, as I have, watched his play for the Atlantic Hawks, he is a very good player on occasion, he is very inconsistent, not such a player that we that we would be giving up two starters for, especially, two young players of great potential. I see the same scenario, like when Orlando over payed for Rashard Lewis, who never mounted to anything and Orlando certainly regretted their foolish mistake I do however believe that Morey is playing a trick on us and has something else up his sleeve- I do like Aldridge of Portland, cheaper , better and will fit our purpose so much, great locker room type unlike than Smith, who's temperament is not what we need. Joe Yetti
A source confirmed Dwight is re-signing with LA. A source also confirmed Dwight is coming to Houston. A source also confirmed Dwight is headed to GSW. A source close to Mark Cuban confirmed that he has bought Dwight's soul. You're welcome.
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I don't think he's indecisive. His goal has been the same since the beginning of the Dwightmare - to play for a contender, preferably for a max contract in a major market. If he just wanted the max contract and didn't care about contending, he'd have just re-upped with Orlando. If all he cared about was contending, he'd have left as a free agent to play for whatever the Thunder or Heat could afford to pay him. He wants both, and viewed through this lens, all his moves make sense. He first requested the trade from Orlando to LAL, NJN, or DAL after the lockout ended. He wasn't traded right then because Bynum's health wasn't yet a concern, Lopez still sucked, and the Mavs had nothing to offer a re-building team. Dwight wanted to move, but the needs of the teams involved did not align. Fast forward to the deadline. His preferred destinations were common knowledge, and any team that traded for him could only be assured of retaining his services till the end of the season. Houston was the only team desperate enough to take that risk. At the time, our best player was Kevin Martin, and we'd have capped ourselves out re-signing Dwight. Faced with the certainty of playing for a mediocre team, he opted to waive his no-trade clause to buy himself more time, hoping that a better situation would come about. As luck would have it, his gamble paid off. He again demanded a trade at the start of this season (nothing was better about his ORL situation and he still wanted out) Howard's back surgery lowered his trade value, Bynum's injuries made him expendable to LAL, and the interests of the teams became aligned enough that they were able to arrange the four-way trade that got Howard to LAL. Congrats, Dwight! Your gamesmanship got you exactly what you wanted - the big contract for the big contender in the big market! Except it didn't. LAL sucked hard all season and barely squeaked into the playoffs. Even worse, the team was old, capped out, captained by a guy (Bryant) who turned out to be a really bad fit with Dwight's personality, and coached by a guy who plays a style Dwight doesn't like. Again, he finds himself in a situation where he's not on a contender, so again, he starts looking for a new home. Time's running out - this is his last contract where he can realistically expect to be a major contributor to a championship team. Nobody wants to win a ring like Juwon Howard did. In the intervening time, Houston's made some moves. We're still not the perfect situation - we can't offer him the max Bird deal - but we've created conditions where it looks like he could just plug in and contend for years, and I think that's his main motivation. Will it be enough? We shall see! But at no point was he indecisive. The decision to waive his no-trade clause may seem that way, but I'm fairly confident it was just a ploy to buy time and keep open his chance to get a max contract playing for a contender.
Lin /Beverley Harden / Canaan Parsons / Jones Greg Smith / Motiejunas Howard / Asik That would be interesting. Two stretch 4s off the bench as needed. Good handles in the backcourt.
I guess I don't see why someone would want to play on a gutted GSW team instead of a fully loaded Rockets team.
if golden state trades barnes,klay and bogut to get dwight they would only have steph dwigth and lee on roster for next season and they could ammesty lee and have enought to sign another max deal.
prob bc its gonna be in San Francisco with a new bad ass arena and Curry is a very young star to grow with.
ESPN: "Stein, Broussard's lazy eye. I need something on Howard, this is ratings... Gimme something to tweet, put on Sports Center." Broussard: "No one knows anything, Howard and his agents have cutoff communication. Anyone posting anything is speculating. Look even Wojo has nothing." ESPN: "Don't go cornball on me, ask Aldridge what happens." Stein: "**** it, uhh we have talked enough about LA and Houston... Alright, it is taking a long time because Howard likes GS.... Run with that." ESPN: "Done"
If it's not Houston, i really hope its GS with curry and thompson somehow still there with him. That would be a really fun team to watch at least.
As long as it isn't Dallas and if it is the rockets would Dwight want to really be here or just because the warriors and lakers didn't want to work on a sign and trade if he comes here I want it him to say yeah I liked GS but I really wanted to be in houston
