Avery Johnson Believes We Have A Great Chance For LeBron

Getting rid of Scola, Mcgrady, and Cook brings the team salary from $74 mil down to $44.5 mil team salary.

The current salary cap is 57.7 mil, so that gives the rockets only $13.2 mil to sign Lebron.

This is assuming league revenues stays the same, even though there is record unemployment and revenues decreased last year. If the salary cap is adjusted lower by $2 mil on lower revenues, that leaves only $11.2 mil to sign Lebron.

 

Also, Yao Ming can opt out and renegotiate which i'm sure he'd do.

 

Would we still have his bird rights?

 

Don't forget having to get rid of Lowry, too, with his ~$6.1M cap hold. And the league office has already told every team not to expect the cap to be more than $53.6M next year (and possibly as low as $50.4M). So that makes the maximum available offer to Lebron closer to $9.7M. And that's AFTER getting rid of T-Mac, Scola, Lowry and Hayes.

Maybe it's just me, but counting on Lebron to sign a contract starting at a little more than HALF of the max, and getting rid of half of the rotation in reliance on that assumption, is fairly faulty thinking. Probably not something that Morey will do.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that opting out at the end of season in which you didn't play a single game due to injury is not Yao's best strategy. I'll wager that he simply accepts his $17+M player option, has even a decent year, then signs his max (or at least near-max) extension.

Yes.

 

Actually it is 39,660,480 according to hoopshype http://hoopshype.com/salaries/houston.htm leaving us with???? You forgot also taking Pops and Barry off the books too. Thats more than enough to start the first year of the players max contract then escalate it each year for 7 years or 6. To whatever amount sounds good for that player like Tmacs who went from something like 17 million at the begining of his contract all the way to 23 million at the end.

 

You are not giving up half the roster with guys like Pops, Scola, Lowry, and insert scrub off the bench here to get anyone like Nowitzki, Bosh, Amare, Lebron, Josh Howard, Wade, or Joe Johnson. Tmac isnt viable anymore to stay healthy. Scola is no where near worth resigning in order to get Amare or Bosh even if you give up Lowry in the process and we can make room while keeping Landry, Brooks, Ariza, Budinger, Battier, Yao, chuck Hayes, and whoever the signee is. We cant keep all of our role players in order to get one of these guys. Some of you want to win a championship have to bite the bullet and let some people go in order to add players for a Championship.

 

James is always full of hype. Show me his championship ring and I will respect him and all the hype surrounding him. No excuses like all the crap about McGrady. I am sick of the hype around James. D Wade does not have all the hype yet he has a ring to show for all his brilliance. Yes this is a team game so that is an even more compelling argument against all the sickening hype for James. No to James.

 

Really great idea to start this thread when there's ALREADY a 6 page one on exactly the same topic.

I guess it's hard to see though - being about 3rd from the top and all...

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showthread.php?t=176784

 

This ones about Lebron specifically while the other is about Avery Johnson thinking we can get Lebron. You see what i did there? One about Avery Johnson and Lebron and one about just Lebron and our situation in free agency next year. Two different topics. Avery says we can get him and then I say we can get him?

 

No to James? You busting my als?

 

Please read this before you make any more posts like this.

http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showpost.php?p=4844002&postcount=323

Even if you do everything that you are proposing, it just won't work. You need to add up the guaranteed salaries rather than simply subtracting the salaries not coming back. Do the math.

 

What number would he wear?

 

It seems that the only real option the Rockets have of signing one of these 2010 free agents is to trade TMac's contract for one of them, and then being able to go over the cap to sign them. It doesn't appear that if we simply let TMac's contract run out at the end of the year, we will have many options as far as money for signing any big name free agent.

 

dont want him. we dont need him. and he is overrated.

 

Not really, those guys you mentioned are easy to replace someone like LeBron James don't come along every season maybe once every 5 seasons. Even in a trade you trade those players for LeBron James any day of the week and still win the swap.

 

Yeah - ok - I see the clear difference there

 

You could open up money by trading Battier. Get creative is the theme here. it might not be Lebron but you could get someone good on this team. Since none of us are Gms and niether is Bucher who loves the Lakers and seems to report everyone is going to the Lakers for peanuts and ESPN as the source the home of the Lakers? I will go with my gut that says Morey can do more than just stand pat. After all he is the GM and none of us are. Therefore your speculation and mine are just as good as Buchers since we all arent the GM.

 

I meant Stein.

 

Good.

 

LeBron James is still young he could very likely double his production in the NBA for his career he came out of high school. This gives you another seven seasons to make minor adjustments, not like major adjustments when we got Tracy.