Mavs sign Al Farouq Aminu - 2 yrs, 2.1m, with a player option after year one.

Did Aminu get recruited by the best recruiter in the NBA?

 

picked(#8) right before Gordon Hayward(#9) and Paul George(#10).

 

Even with a player option?? I completely agree with Morey on this. Unless you're a top 5 talent at your position, you don't get player options.

 

Yeah I guess you didn't realize that "random twitter guy" is actually a Mavs beat writer who has been covering them excellently for years.

(Still doesn't mean I co-sign on the rubbish he tweeted. Best offseason ever? C'mon Mr. Price. I gotta respond to his tweet.)

 

Multiple teams gave up on him???
One team traded him in order to receive one of the 3 best point guards in the game (if not the best in the game currently).
The other team just didn't re-sign him.

 

His contract is untradable. Morey will pass.

 

That probably explains why there's a whole bunch of experienced NBA vets who had been full-time starters most of their careers (Jameer Nelson, Richard Jefferson, Raymond Felton, Al-Farouq Aminu) now sitting on the Mavs' bench as mere backups.

Meanwhile the Rockets bench is populated with unproven D-League projects that have hardly played in the NBA at all (D-Mo, Canaan, Covington, Daniels). Frankly, those are usually the kind of players who have no leverage to demand a player option on a minimum salary contract.

If you want to convince an established NBA starter to join your team as a low-paid backup, you gotta compromise or they'll take their talents elsewhere.

 

Marion is ours!

 

That says more than enough. Teams don't just let lotto picks walk unless they suck.

 

He's a good defender but worthless otherwise

 

The Mavs are shaping up really nice for a strong 1st round exit.

 

If Marion leaving was a certainty, then that is a good bounce back signing. Absolute steal for a unique basketball chess piece - never going to be a clear starting forward, but he does provide a good Marion impersonation (without the polished scoring).

Of course you're not going to move the needle by signing guys in their 20s to min contracts - if a 23-year-old is available at the min there's something wrong with him. But it's a min contract, so it's essentially zero risk, medium reward.

 

If so, what do you call the mess Morey's signed this offseason

 

I am proud to have called a Mavs beat writer a "random twitter guy." That is the completely appropriate terminology, given that I'm a true Rockets fan.

Guy is delusional in any case, and it sounds like you agree. Cheers.

 

What does the GARM call them?

- Best defender in Europe
- Chris Paul
- Swiss Serge Ibaka

 

pick the next mav signing

http://www.complex.com/sports/2014/02/25-worst-players-in-the-nba-right-now/

 

Yeah, what's to lose really? Aminu couldn't find a better deal this year, he'll be coming off the bench, he's choosing to bet on himself as it is. In this instance I'm not seeing how a player option affects any party negatively. Does it make his contract a tiny bit less tradeable? I don't think Dallas cares. I don't think most teams care. Not at $2.7mil.

 

But he wasn't their lottery pick. (If you were referring to the Hornets/Pelicans).

 

So why did he give Garcia one? :grin:

 

The reason the Mavs are signing everyone is because they are giving the players- 2nd yr player options,,, and of course Morey doesnt do player option