Riley getting players <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Free agent Danny Granger has agreed to a two-year, $4.2 million deal with the Miami Heat, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/statuses/486232867635482627">July 7, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>Free agent Danny Granger has agreed to a two-year, $4.2 million deal with the Miami Heat, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA/statuses/486232867635482627">July 7, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
But, see, isn't that going to cause the cluster***** that we all thought it would cause for Miami? You drop $63 million total for 3 players means that you just spent your ENTIRE cap on 3 players, one of which has no business even being in the conversation for max money. I think my interpretation is probably correct in that Miami is leaking McBob's deal as "MLE" and that the team is operating as a "capped team" to make people think the Big 3 have agreed to come back. If Bosh leaves they could easily say "well we intended on signing McRoberts to that money anyways. it's you guys in the media that portrayed it as MLE" LeBron $20 million Wade $15 million McRoberts $6.5 million Cole $2 million Haslem $2 million Napier $1 million That's $46.5 million with about $17 mill left to fill out the roster. I'd think that's a more preferred outcome for Riley/Heat.
Is anyone else starting to really hate some of these players for trying to hold the league hostage and use us as leverage over and over?
If Bosh is leveraging us, Morey is aware. We are using Bosh too if this is the case. Bosh being linked to Houston can make Flip say, NOOO, we really wanted those assets Houston had to offer, we don't need Parsons to say yes. I'm feeling good about our chances between now and Thursday to get that third max guy prior to signing Parsons.
So they have McRoberts at MLE money and Granger at the Bi Annual number. Riley is definitely pitching this from a Big 3 stays angle without big paycuts. Basically big 3 making the max or near max putting them at the cap.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Granger contract amount is equal to the Bi-Annual Exception amount. MIA clearly looking to re-sign Big 3, operate *over* the cap.</p>— David Weiner (@BimaThug) <a href="https://twitter.com/BimaThug/statuses/486233220321918977">July 7, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Chris Bosh had a 48.4 field-goal percentage on mid-range shots last season -- second among NBA power forwards and centers. The Rockets, meanwhile, had the lowest percentage among NBA teams in that category last season -ESPN
