Not sure what you mean by "special case." Many draft day trades are sent to the league office, but to be completed under the following salary cap numbers. Nothing special about that. Anyhoot, lets cut through the semantics though. A trade, as defined in the CBA, hasn't happened until a conference call has OK'd the assignments of the contracts to new teams, at which point the contracts are officially altered From CBA: A “trade” of a player under this Agreement shall mean an assignment of a Player Contract pursuant to a negotiated exchange between two or more Teams following a trade conference call with the NBA league office. It's those conf calls that Woj gets tipped off on, between the time the teams agree and the time they arrange the call. If at the point of the call, the league deems that you can't match salaries via cap-space or exceptions, I'm sure they invalidate the trade, except in the case all teams ask to use new Salary numbers and Salary Cap numbers available after the moratorium, allowing assignments of the contracts to be enforceable at a future date....just like Draft Day trades. Nothing special to Lebron about this. Any structural changes to trades we hear from point of Woj/Shams reporting them to the point of trade conference call is likely conducted during the conference call. If as a result of the call, the league invalidates a trade based upon breaking trade rules (salary matching, etc), all teams go back to the drawing board, but each team can bail, too. You seem to be saying Morey will try to delay the Trade Conference call, if he knows he can't match salaries. Or that Morey can ask everyone for more time, at the point the league invalidates the trade.
All Windy’s comment (which all I’ve seen is some random twitter account “quote” him btw) did for me was strengthen my belief that he doesn’t know anything.
I find to truly F5 in today’s NBA you got to take a break every few hours. You must have worn your F5 finger or key out by being too aggressive.
This article is implying that time is fast running out and it looks unlikely tha lebron will pull the trigger.
If LeBron is dead set on opting out and being a free agent, then why say it? It’s common knowledge that without an opt in, Houston has virtually no chance. Also, up until today, Windhorst had maintained his opinion that Houston wasn’t in play. Now he’s reporting the Rockets may very well be an option. Finally, Windhorst has spent the last four or five years of his career basically being LeBron’s mouthpiece. He’s more connected to LeBron than most.
whether Lebron is dead set on opt our ot not Windhorst has no clue. He's only mentioning Houston now to cover all the bases.
My guess is that he realized it’s a bit odd that LeBron’s opt in is apparently still up in the air, and made the logical deduction like the rest of us. Houston certainly doesn’t look likely, but it’s hard to find reason beyond Houston for an opt in.
He could opt-in for Cleveland just to grab the little extra cash ($35.6 mill vs $35.3 mill if he signed a new deal).
The more I think about it, the more I think he might not be coming. Just because, he don't want a team that's built to win. He wants to build a team and get all the credit. He don't want a gm getting credit for building the team. If the gm does get credit, he dam sure rather it be magic than Morey. He don't want to play for a team with a real philosophy on how to win. That give too much credit to the coaches and again, Morey. I've been pretty optimistic, but the more I think about it, **** LeBron. Unless I'm wrong.
Why would he do that when he could do the 1 + 1 guaranteeing him more money yet giving him the same flexibility
