Boogie is only 30 years old and is getting paid the minimum He has potential to return to form since he is still pretty young, paying someone like PJ 5X as much is wild.
In the old days, fans get to act more like fans, and less like GMs. GM's sometimes played the bad/stern parent because they have to. As far as owners, you can still do your employee a solid for their loyalty: "Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban has been praised for agreeing to release guard J.J. Barea by releasing less than a month after signing him to a guarantee contract. The move, first reported by ESPN, is Cuban's way of rewarding the veteran for his services to the team. Last month, the Mavericks signed Barea to a one-year contract worth the veterans minimum of $2.6 million. The deal took the number of players on guaranteed contracts on the roster to 16, one more than the NBA allows during the regular season. According to ESPN, however, Dallas had already planned to release Barea when they signed him last month and the one-year deal was Cuban's idea to reward the 36-year-old, who has spent 11 of his 14 seasons in the NBA with the Mavericks after joining the franchise as undrafted rookie in 2006. In the past, Cuban had previously indicated he felt Barea to have a role within the organization once he retires. " -- Newsweek. PJ at this stage of his career is still very serviceable and many contending team would love to have him. His shoe collection is charming; seems a bit low blow to bring it up in a negative context. As far as positive puff pieces go, it was one of the few Rockets get nationally. League-wise, non rockets hoop fans like PJ Tucker. Got me thinking about guys like Battier. If Battier's last stop was in HOU instead of MIA. Rockets could have offered him a FO position after he retired playing. Left HOU in 2011, ended up with the Heat for 3 years, he and his family got comfortable in MIA and then just took the front office there instead of here.
Dallas doesn’t have a broke owner. Cuban might be a b*stard ( remember his antics against us in the 2005 playoffs) but dude spends and is loaded
On Twitter, I pointed out to Feigan that his post was behind a paywall....some whiney babies didn't like it. DD
10M isn't a lot of money for a player in 2021. That's less than 10% of the cap. If the team will always be over the cap anyway cause of Harden and Wall then the only way to improve the team is the MLE and trades. And if all the trade targets like Turner, Gordon, Hield are ~20M then we need salary for matching. Look how important Harkless' 15M was last year for the Clipps. The Lakers turned Green at 15M to Schroeder with a low pick. We can slap picks with PJ to turn him into something useful for tanking teams.
