BTW guys my sources strongly indicate that something will happen before Sunday.!!!!!.72892=2929=2929=pooter
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It seems like the mavs are the team with the 2 stars. They are signing players left and right and don't give me that BS about declining players. Teams that are ready to compete for a championship make this kind of veteran signings. Meanwhile morey is busy signing overseas players and looks like the rebuilding team
No, teams that are completely delaying their inevitable rebuild, and want to maintain their stronghold on the 6-8 seed make those kinds of moves. You realize that the Mavericks are now tied into having Ellis, Dirk, and Parsons be their team without a chance to upgrade their roster outside of veteran minimum and MLE signings?? I don't think you understand how crippling Parsons' contract actually is to a team's salary cap.
I'm not saying they will win the championship, but man we have a rookie as our back up pg, not stretch 4 yet again, Dorsey as our back up center, thee are some decent free agents out there to be had, but doesn't seem like morey has any urgency.
Unfortunately you're mistaken. Mavs could have over 30 million in cap space next year with the only contracts larger than 3 million being parson, dirk, felton and Harris. Ellis has a player option of just under 9 million he will most likely decline. If they move/stretch felton/they along with waiving/renouncing their rights to other players, the mavs could have 35-38 million to spend.
The Mavs are doing business the way they are because they have been successful at it in the recent past. Specifically, how did they win the 2010-2011 title after spending the 4 prior years exiting either in the 1st or the 2nd round of the playoffs? Did they land some hot free agent or trade for a hot superstar? No. They did land an elite player, but that elite player was Tyson Chandler, who was being discarded for practically nothing by a mediocre Charlotte team. He just happened to be the missing piece that they needed. That team had talent, but outside of Dirk, the player were not necessarily the kind of superstar that every team was chasing: Kidd (at age 37), Tyson Chandler, Shawn Marion, Jason Terry, Caron Butler, Deshawn Stevenson, JJ Barea, Peja Stojakovic. I think Cuban's experience and approach is that he can build a contender out of Dirk and a bunch of very good players that other teams underrate.
Plowman, I was wondering if you had any indications on why this Dragic trade hasn't gone through. I thought generally when trades were agreed upon in principal or at least to a certain extent we hear from Woj or Amick. Is this trade still going to happen in your opinion? I'm very hopeful that your information is correct because I want there to be a positive outcome to this offseason.
Oh, I must have been looking at the wrong breakdown then, because I could have sworn they were capped out. Perhaps it was out of date. Well, disregard that point then. However, I still stand firmly in the belief that these signings will not allow them to jump over us, Golden State, OR Portland in the West.
It sure would be nice if people kept their Jokes about sources out of the thread. Every time I come to this site this topic is number 3. And every time I click it's someone trying to be funny about sources or rumors. We get the point so stop posting unless you have useful information.
The thing people are underestimating on this board is that Pheonix is by no means in a win now mode. Would they like to be? Of course they would but looking at that lineup, they are setting up for the future. We have assets they do want. Will it be hard to part with a couple of them? Maybe. But we are in win now mode. We can give them a guy like canaan, or terence Jones or both and any of our rookies and not look back. They can afford to develop a young guard asset with a good contract and look to flip em for something better in the long run. It is how well we can butter up phoenix and make things happen.
Either the teams involved(PHX and Houston) are extremely hush hush about the trades or all of this is hogwash. The fact is agents often get wind of rumors like this and probe to find out by circulating BS in the media. Infact a majority of trade rumors/speculation originates from player agents or non involved parties propagating BS. The fact that NO credible media members have even reported that there are rumblings of a potential "Return of the Dragon/Eric Bledsoe to Houston" makes me really question the validity of sources... OR Houston and Phoenix are making sure to keep this extremely close to the vest. I am very much inclined on giving Drew, Plowman, and other newb insiders some leeway...but eventually they will have to stand behind their words with some real credibility...
Some deals are just "extremely hush hush" while others are not. Often, it's a matter of how parties to a negotiation decides to play a specific situation. For example, remember the Harden trade? There were no reports of the Rockets trading Harden or even of OKC shopping Harden during the time leading up to the trade. All that there were, as far as I could remember, were a few reports of Harden and OKC negotiating an extension. All the stories about how the negotiation fell apart over a few million dollars, how OKC tried to get guys like Bradley Beal for Harden first before turning to Houston came out after the trade was made public. The Kyle Lowry trade, too. People speculated that Lowry would be traded that offseason due to butting heads with McHale, but there were no reports of which teams Houston negotiated with or any of the back and forth. With some deals there are plenty of reports during the negotiation stage (Dwight to LA, Melo to NY, Love now, even Asik during the season), often either because one of the parties want the info to be out there or because the potential departure of a player is such good drama that members of the media kept on reporting everything they hear on the matter.
