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Nick Van Exel Sighting

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by nyrocket, Jul 17, 2004.

  1. xiki

    xiki Member

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    Doc, you are el correcto red - o. A good pic beats a bad pick. With women a good pick up beats a bad Rock pick - up.

    Go, Rinaldonella!
     
  2. Hottoddie

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    I disagree. We've finally found our physical PF. It's Nenê. Doc's saying we are trading for Nenê.:D
     
  3. Phizz3l

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    Actually NVE will be at a celebrity car @ Dave and Buster next week... if you guys want I can find the online flyer and post it for you.
     
  4. Man

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    I want to see the flyer thanks

    NVE..I wish I lived next to him. i wish he was a Rocket, but I think he would want to start..and I would rather have him as a backup.
     
  5. gucci888

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    NVE may not be the best fit, but he is the best PG left. Barry and Fish were really big letdowns, I thought we would pull one of the two. Was never big on Hudson and we are basically left btwn NVE & D. Jones. I'd pick NVE.
     
  6. Hmm

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    Don't forget Mike James. :)
     
  7. nyrocket

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    pasox2: Thanks. I knew someone would know what the hell I was talking about. If anyone wants to explain what this activity is supposed to signify or enhance, please feel free.

    Everyone who's spoken to the idea of NVE and the Rockets: I'm sort of thinking he might be a good fit as a backup 1 or even 2. Certainly not a starter, but I'm sure we all recognize the value of a 1 who is always a threat to drain the 3. That's one big reason that Derek Fisher held so mch interest for me. I know that NVE can run the point offensively, especially with the personnel the Rockets have now; I don't know whether he can defend the position. Maybe that's not as significant as it once was. Perhaps his tendency to pout would be exactly the thing the Rockets don't need. Anyway, I think it's an interesting prospect, something worth talking about. Plus, he wears diamond studs the size of Brussels sprouts.

    Doc: Consider it done, my man. I'm on a mission.
     
  8. Mr. Mooch

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    Man, you GOTS to show me around South Beach when I get down there this fall! :D

    When I went in April I had no idea what to expect when I went walking on the beach. And then I saw women hanging out. Boy was I pleased.

    Yeah, that juuuuuust about clinched UM for me.
     
  9. Phizz3l

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    [​IMG]

    I know they spelled his name wrong, but the rest of the info is correct.
     
  10. xiki

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    why not add BBS fav Vecsey's two-cents, N Y K'nick':

    http://www.nypost.com/sports/25316.htm

    KNICK VANEXEL?

    July 18, 2004 -- "My crew don't dance, we just pick up our pants and lean back, lean back ..."
    BEFORE joining Fat Joe weekends at 155th & Eighth for the remainder of the summer, or at poolside/courtside in Miami next season, a few thoughts are in order regarding L.A. Lawless choosing a self-center over its centerpiece, and the Nets' worst decision since Roy Boe sold Julius Erving to the 76ers for $3 million at the same time he sold out their fans ... but first some news.

    The Knicks are getting infinitesimally close to solidifying a sign-and-trade arrangement with the Warriors accenting epicenter Erick Dampier; and you thought Jamaal Magloire has seen his last All-Star daylight now that the Hornets have shifted to the Western Conference.

    Frustrated at being unable to entice various teams to commit to an inordinately larger deal, Isiah Thomas, according to a plant foreman, is attempting to push ahead by his lonesome. Engineering such a caper minus a middleman or two, of course, figures to be considerably more expensive.

    Aside from acquiring Dampier, the Knicks may be obliged to relieve the Warriors of Nick Van Exel's bloated contract. Logic dictates Chris Mullin wouldn't dare recruit free agent Derek Fisher to subsidize Speedy Claxton at the point if the Golden State exec didn't have a port to unload Little Nicky's $25.5M, two-year guarantee; if he's not heading to New York, go to sleep on him being shipped out somewhere.

    Compensation should not be nearly as problematical as it was before Mullin promoted Adonal Foyle to the starting lineup by virtue of investing $41M in his re-signing. Now all the Warriors need is a competent backup, which the Knicks can provide in Nazr Mohammed. After that it's simply a matter of filling in the blanks with players on the end of their contracts (Dikembe Mutombo and Othella Harrington) until the amount comes within 15 percent (plus 100G) of Van Exel's salary and whatever Dampier re-enlists for.

    My only questions are whether Thomas is slick enough to dump Moochie Norris' $3.8M and $4.2M salary on the dock of the bay area? And can Kurt Thomas/Frank Williams be kept out of the equation to use as part payment to obtain Antoine Walker from the Mavericks? As mentioned last Sunday, as long as the deal is reasonable, owner Mark Cuban is willing to satisfy his incompatible (with Dirk Nowitzki) forward's feverish desire to play for the Knicks or the Sixers.

    Come to think of it, if the Knicks are compelled to throw Kurt into the Warriors' pot, shouldn't the Mavs desperately want to reacquaint themselves with Van Exel in lieu of Steve Nash's re-routing to Phoenix? Rookie Devin Harris and Avery Johnson, I submit, are not good enough to lose with in the first round of the playoffs.

    If Bruce (Altighty) Ratner is going to relocate displaced Brooklyn families the same way Kenyon Martin was allowed to dance off to Denver for a trio of future first-round draft picks, he can expect death threats from Walter O'Malley's descendents.

    Jason Kidd - shopped to every team with abundant cap room, I'm informed - will be rehabbing from his fourth knee operation by the time those phantoms of Ratner's opera are prepared to produce.

    Yo, cuz, Brucie, didn't Jay Z 'splain to you the idea is to pare down the payroll before selling a team, not after buying it.

    Ratner and his crew tried to play it cute by having the opposition do their negotiating for them. Instead of immediately maxin' out Martin, they banked on saving a seventh year guarantee of $20M; if a team went all the way, they figured they could simply match.

    But the Nets got outsmarted. What they didn't bank on was how much Nuggets owner E. Stanley Kroenke coveted Martin. Once he took the lead in a game he never would've been in had Ratner done the right thing, he refused to lose Kenyon or get squeezed for Nene. Given the opportunity to compete and an open court to brainstorm, Kroenke's people got ruthlessly creative; the Nuggets threatened to frontload the contract with a signing bonus so succulent the Nets flinched.

    Either the thought of being drowned by the dreaded luxury tax scared off Ratner, or it was just the convenient excuse he was looking for to save face and shed salary; Rod Thorn's $3M annual intake will be next to disappear when his contract expires at the end of '04-'05.

    An early glance at the upcoming version of the New Jersey Nets and I'm thinkin' one word ... Piscataway. Moving back there will be Ratner's only chance to experience a traditional sellout.

    Why, you ask, did Kobe Bryant decide to re-up with the Lakers rather than consort with known Clippers? Having salted away relatively very little of his first $100M, he can definitely use the extra $25-to-$30M over seven seasons; he believed advisers who warned him Donald Sterling could not be trusted to keep adding to the platoon; and he couldn't bear to send Jim Gray a change-of-address card.

    Bryant denied he was part of any "power play" to shuck Shaq and Phil Jackson. If he really had his way, he underlines, "Do you think Mitch Kupchak would still be employed and Jerry Buss would still own the team?"

    "That upsets me. That angers me. That hurts me," he told Gray to tell the respected members of the media.

    Bryant did, however, confess to busting up the Beatles, the Berlin Wall and a wild party in an adjoining room at the Colorado spa. Moreover, he admits to having been given the right to handpick Jeanie Buss' next boyfriend.

    All is not lost for the Clippers; by trading Melvin Ely and Eddie House to the Bobcats, Elgin Baylor claims he has cleared enough cap space to become the front-runners for Anita Bryant.

    It was busy couple of days for those formerly and currently associated with the Hilton of Higher Education, the U. of Cincinnati. Not long after Kenyon was traded for three draft picks, Bob Huggins was reinstated for three draft beers.

    Good riddance, Carlos; my position is Ohio is only big enough for one Boozer. And the state already is stuck with Huggins.
     
  11. mos-def

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    please don't ever post a vescey article.
    his "news" is garbage, and his attempts at nyc hipness is incredibly sad.

    like watching a 60yr old quote fat joe lyrics....
    ooops! he did that too...
    what a joke.
     
  12. okierock

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    We can't afford NVE, though I like his heart and effort. I think he was the sole reason that the Mavs did well in the playoffs two years ago.

    I hope this thread stays around until the lady in red shows herself.:eek: :D
     
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    Posey will supposedly be in the house too
     
  15. buiyahkah

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    hurry it up with the pics already! ;)
     
  16. xiki

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    It was actually his funniest column in years, and last for the summer...we'll all miss his insights (LOL).
     
  17. wiws316

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    so um....... how the pics comin:D
     
  18. nyrocket

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    Friends - it's been very rainy here the last several days, and that tends to cut down dramatically any normal beach activity. Plus, wet sand is harder to ride on.

    The area where the capoiera practitioners tend to congregate is also used by a group of people who have a daily yoga session, and when it's rainy there's pretty much no one there.

    But don't worry; I will not let you down.
     
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    Has NVE's opt-out deadline passed? I know he most likely won't walk away from the money, but is it still a possibilty? I know there were two dates floating around, but I could never find a definite answer.
     
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    Tall and tan and young and lovely
    the girl from Ipanema goes walking
    and when she passes
    each one she passes
    goes "Ahhh!"

    When she walks she's like a samba
    that swings so cool and sways so gently
    that when she passes
    each one she passes
    goes "Ahhh!"

    Oh, but he watches so sadly
    How can he tell her he loves her?
    Yes, he would give his heart gladly.

    But each day when she walks to the sea
    she looks straight ahead
    not at he.

    Tall and tan and young and lovely
    the girl from Ipanema goes walking
    and when she passes
    he smiles
    but she doesn't see.
    She just doesn't see.
    No, she doesn't see....
     

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