http://espn.go.com/nba/columns/hughes_frank/1416130.html Hmmm...Looks like the Maloof (sp?) Brothers are doing their best Donald Sterling impersonation and don't want to offer him the contract he wants. Bibby might sign a one year deal and test the free agent waters
If he would just leave for an Eastern Conf. team that would be great. Unfortunately I think the Maloof's will come to their senses and just pay him. He's a west coast kid so he wants to stay there and the Maloofs are rich beyond rich so they don't have to worry about the lux. tax if they don't want to. Bibby is the only player on their team who isn't scared to take the big shots so they'll pony up the doe. They really have little choice.
I think bibby should be the team leader for the kings. It will be a big lost for the kings, if they can't give him a long contract.
I doubt he goes anywhere. Kings are just toying around trying to get Bibby to sign under the max. We shall see how long Bibby's patience is. Evenutaully he should sign.
I know he doesn't deserve the max, the majority of players asking or getting it now sure don't, but Webber being stupidly overpaid sure as hell won't help the Kings' case in not giving him the max.
Bibby is a decent PG. Maybe good. Not even very good, though. He played like a slightly-above-average PG his entire career, including this year. Then he played great during a single playoff series. And suddenly he's a max player. The Maloof's aren't cheap, they're smart.
The problem here is, I think, that Beezelbub is Bibby's agent. "Don't sign that contract, I can get you more," says David Falk. "I can falk any team blind." I know Falk is just doing his job, but Falk and his ilk have done it so well over the years that every guy who ever made a clutch shot in any game thinks he deserves the max. Bibby sacked up in the playoffs (something Webber will never do), but his regular season stats bring down the max-contract value a bit. The Maloofs are being very fair.
