Man, am I excited. Just got boosted to member and here is my first ever thread. It is almost guranteed the New Jersey/Brooklyn/Moscow Nets will draft John Wall. Now should everything go as predicted and the nets accquire john wall and a top tier free agent there will be an issue. Let's say this new top tier free agent is not a two guard(for our case, let's say they get a power forward). What do you do with Harris? Do you make hi ma shooting guard? Do you trade him? Where do you trade him to and for what position?
What makes you think They won't take Evan Turner? Evan and Wall are comparable and Evans size and play making ability are hard to find.
Actually I think the chance of them getting Wall will be 1 in 4. I hope they end up with number 4. If they get Wall, I'm predicting Lebron going to New Jersey/Brooklyn.
If I'm a top tier free agent, I would go. Get to play with Brook Lopez and John Wall, for a team that will be in brooklyn with an owner who likes spelanding money and no real identity or history. Meaning you can be the face of the franchise for years and be remembered as the greatest net.
Even if the Nets don't win another game for the rest of the year, they STILL only have a 25% chance of getting the #1 pick. Hell, just look at last year. The Sacramento Kings had the league's worst record and the best shot at the #1 pick. They ended up picking 4th. So, no, it is NOT "almost guaranteed". That's why it's called a LOTTERY.
Yes I am right, they will get 250 chances in 1000 to draft #1...or for the non-math geniuses, a 1 in 4 shot. The Rockets, on the other hand will likely get around 44 chances in 1000 at this current pace. I guess we can't count out getting the #8 seed and not even competing in the lottery, but I think we all know we are in "play hard, but winning isn't everything" mode. AKA giving Jordan Hill and David Andersen significant minutes, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
all the top tier free agents this year are either looking to play with a contending team or to get that max contract with new york, not a rebuilding team that could still be on the verge of having the worst record in nba history.
Huh??? If New York renounces all of its players in order to sign two max guys, then how do you not call the Knicks a "rebuilding team"? Also, New Jersey will have a top 4 pick, plus enough cap room to sign one max guy AND another second-tier free agent. Before the T-Mac trade, it was the Nets who had the most cap room of any team this summer. Not to mention that, even if they don't get Wall, the Nets will have quality players at the point guard (Devin Harris) and center (Brook Lopez) positions, the hardest to fill in this league, as well as other quality young players around them (Yi Jianlian, Courtney Lee, Terrence Williams, Chris Douglas-Roberts). How is that foundation (combined with a charismatic new owner who is actually willing to spend) not infinitely more appealing to free agents than the dregs that are "What is Left of the New York Knicks"???
my point was nj has a small chance at signing a top tier free agent. new york is still a bigger market which attracts free agents and the bonus of playing with another max top tier free agent. look at the free agents this year. amare? he's either going to miami with wade or new york (bigger market) to play under his old coach boozer? if miami doesn't get amare then they are most likely gonna go after boozer and if miami signs amare then boozer might go to chicago (who has wanted interest in boozer in the past) and if im boozer, rose heinrich deng boozer noah is a better lineup than anything nj could offer joe johnson? if he doesn't decide to resign with atlanta then he is most likely going to new york to play under his old coach and play for a bigger market if they don't get lebron. new jersey could eye out bosh because a lineup of with harris and wall (if they get him) in the back court with bosh and lopez that imo would be a good team. I'm still not sold on lebron going to New York BUT if he does decide to go there over Cleveland then of course this shakes up all my predictions but my point was by now i think a lot of the top tier free agents have already mapped out a plan for their future already that doesn't have new jersey in their future plans.
I agree, no one will go to NY if they have no chance of winning, but then again who wants to live in NJ? Lebron with that team and maybe one other solid player would certainly be interesting...
