Is Granger (today) & McRoberts = to what Mike Miller and Udonis Haslem brought to the Heat 3 years ago?
Guys Bos isn't leaving MIA. The Rockets are his plan B. So we missed out on James/Anthony/Bosh My question is who is our plan D? (While still keeping Parsons)
David Aldridge: [rQUOTEr]Meanwhile, the Houston Rockets officially made Chris Bosh a max contract offer for four years in case he changes his mind and decides to leave the Miami Heat, but that will only happen if James leaves first. Amid a hurricane of speculation that James is seriously considering a return to Cleveland, the franchise he left in 2010 to join Bosh and Dwyane Wade in Miami, the only concrete news remained James’ desire for a max contract and his upcoming meeting with Heat president Pat Riley. Teams had believed Anthony would announce his decision as early as Monday, but as of early afternoon, his camp had yet to announce his decision — whether he’d return to the Knicks for a five-year deal worth $129 million, or take lesser deals with the Lakers (a max deal at $96 million, to be fair, but for one fewer season), Bulls, Rockets or Mavericks. While Houston waited to hear from Anthony — still the team’s first choice — it made contingency plans with Bosh, who’d step in at power forward as a strong complement to Dwight Howard and James Harden. The Rockets believe there’s mutual interest between them and Bosh. They’re comfortable with Bosh running his own process for making a decision, so they’re not pushing him for a face-to-face meeting in Houston as they had in 2010, or that they had last week with Anthony.[/rQUOTEr]
May be Lebron is the one who takes a pay cut to come play with the Rox after Bosh is signed and Cuban offers Parsons the max. LOL at Mark Cuban then
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Heat strike deals with Josh McRoberts and, according to <a href="https://twitter.com/WojYahooNBA">@WojYahooNBA</a>, Danny Granger. LeBron, I'm told, was made aware of McRoberts pursuit</p>— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/statuses/486239978406432768">July 7, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
One thing is fo sho. Maulie's enemy list has a new addition of Pat Riley, if he wasn't already in there. While Heat is scrambling to keep all BIG 3, Maulie's trying to sabotage that by stealing CB4...
Not quitting, just reading the tea leaves. Why make this annoucement if you're Miami? You can easily confirm to Lebron's camp that you have deals in place for McRoberts and Granger without leaking it to the media. Annoucing this to the media locks you into the contracts, whether or not the big 3 stay. There's no advantage to this on the Miami side unless the big 3 committed. If they committed, then it makes tons of sense to do it like this. It won't be a surprise when they all come back, and they can claim that they were never seriously considering other options anyway.
If he were to offer an absurd deal, if you were Morey, would you decline it? Just to **** Cuban back?... Just curious.
Crap I've seen him tons of times but never paid attention to his name. Now I can put a face to all of the windhorst tweets I'm seeing on here.
The agreement is for MLE-level money, not necessarily the MLE. If Bosh walks, then the Heat will be under the cap, and they could give the exact same contract to McRoberts. McRoberts and Granger could care less whether their signings are technically from the MLE or from cap space. All that matters to those two and their agents is the dollar figure, and that's something the Heat can give to them whether they're over the cap or under it. Thus, the agreement.
