It would have been nice for Toronto to buy out Dream's contract and let the Rockets sign him to the minimum for that final swan song like Newsday is speculation for Patrick Ewing. Magic: The team bought out Patrick Ewing's contract for $1.5 million. The move saves them about $800,000 in cap room next year. While speculation persists that Ewing will retire, Newsday reported today that the Knicks may be interested in bringing the center back for one last swan song at the veteran's minimum.
It would be great to have Hakeem back in a Rockets uniform and retire a Rocket. I think that Toronto plans to keep him for next season anyway- they do not have Keon Clark returning. Davis and Hakeem will be in the paint. Toronto may buy out his last year after next season. I wish we could sign him to the league minimum- no disrespect intended, but it is a business and we will be over the cap anyway.
Hakeem can screw off. He did tremendous harm to the franchise over his last few seasons with the team and is lucky that he is not booed when he comes back to Houston. Fortunately for him, most fans wear rose tinted glasses and are prepared to forget his greed.
Hmm... I guess we should just forget that he helped get Houston's FIRST pro championship? I agree that Hakeem had been asking for a bit much, but I don't think we should forget all he did for Houston. Not to mention what the team looks like now. *looks at lineup*Hakeem has done it again.
Can you provide one example of this "tremendous harm"? Oh that's right, you're only good for sound bytes. Never mind. Go back to working on those pecs.
sure, Hakeem essentially forced Houston not to trade him at a time when they could have received value in exchange, b****ing about loyalty. and then when Houston did offer him money to stay, he turned it down and went to Toronto. That is what I call hurting the franchise for his own purposes.
Hakeem netted the team Nachbar with the S&T. I'll take that for a guy who was an non-factor last year.
i'm sure hakeem knew we would be able to get nachbar. hakeem's really a single woman and his first name is cleo.
You have proof of this, I trust? Because the papers and Rudy say Rudy is the one that did not want to trade Hakeem. Hakeem made his comments about loyalty after the trade had already been aborted. In other words, he was a free agent, and chose to leave. Fast forward to present, the Rockets have received 3 picks in the top 7 in the last 4 years. I'm not seeing this "tremendous harm". To the larger issue -- you weigh those things more heavily than the other 17 years in Houston? That's a little strange.
A comparison of Dream and Cleo? hehehe No Hakeem didn't know what that pick would yield but one can't say that the team didn't get fair value for an aged superstar who could only play 15-20 minutes a game. Tod's claiming the team didn't get any value in return for him. They got a whole lot more than the Knicks did for Ewing.
No, the whole greed stuff was just a charade dreamed up (no pun intended) by Hakeem and Rudy in CD's office one day. It was designed to sucker some stupid GM to give up a decent 1st rounder for Dream. The Knicks could have done that with Ewing. They just weren't smart enough to pull it off.
I didn't like The Dream leaving, but hey, things might've been more screwed up if he stayed. I would like to see him retire as a Rocket. If he stays in Toronto, I look at it like that last game as a Rocket against Minnesota was his retirement. That was a magical evening.
