Oh I'm sure he doesn't care about me or anybody else on this board either. That's exactly why your comments about "he just needs to know blah blah blah..." is laughable. Who do you think you are? And how old are you? No, he doesn't need to know anything from you, or me, or anybody here.
The poison pill contracts were innovative and smart. Morey was the first GM to exploit a loophole to sign a player without overpaying. Dallas hardly did that. They took the old plan of spending too much money. They struck out on LeBron and Melo and instead opted to throw most of the extra cap room (which only existed because Dirk wanted to sacrifice to get a second star) onto a guy that (probably) won't live up to the contract.
I don't think your booby trap analogy makes sense. Believe me, I'm a critic of Morey...but this wouldn't really be "a taste of his own medicine"-
...Except Cuban now has to drink the medicine. He constructed an untradeable max contract for a player who is very good but not max caliber. This will chew up his cap for 3 years. Plus ellis is really streaky which will drive parsons crazy. Felton is often a bad shooter, very below average nba player. Calderon their best shooter - gone, Carter-gone. They also added Rashard Lewis but he hasn't done much since 2009. Hard to say they've 'improved' over last year and now hog-tied with parsons.
if you don't beat your own drum, who's going to do it for you? clearly Houston didn't value Parsons as much as he valued himself. i'd rather have a guy who thinks highly of himself over someone who does not.
DM had no choice. According to sources "No one directly involved with the Parsons negotiations will confirm it, but it is widely suspected around the league that Dan Fegan, the lead agent representing Parsons and Howard, made it clear that accelerating Parsons’s payday was an unofficial part of the Howard contract. The Wizards splurged on Martell Webster last summer in part because Fegan represents both Webster and John Wall, per several league sources. This is not an uncommon thing; the Cavaliers may soon experience it with Thompson. Both Parsons and Daryl Morey, Houston’s GM, have told me that Parsons had asked if it were possible to get an immediate raise over the last two years of his contract, so he was clearly frustrated working on perhaps the best bang-for-the-buck contract in the NBA."
it still boomeranged on them by picking up the option and allowing Parsons to get a new contract instead of just forcing him to stay. what leverage did Parsons really have?
If there were indeed an under-the-table deal, wouldn't reneging on it alienate Morey from every single agent? How do you think that would impact future negotiations?
judging by Parsons' butthurtness, clearly Houston didn't oblige to what he wanted, nor did they really care much about how their players felt. don't you think that would have an impact on future negotations with other players?
Morey has been tasting his own medicine, ever since the poison pill contracts backfired and made Asik and Lin almost impossible to trade, until recently. That isn't to say they were bad moves at the time. They were good moves, but the team's circumstances changed when they got better players in Harden and Howard. I'm still glad Morey was creative and bold enough to make those moves. In the long run, that's the kind of GM you want. The tough thing to take with the Parsons debacle isn't so much losing him (Ariza's a fine replacement at a great price) as losing him to Dallas. Dallas will be better this year.
Clearly, you're wrong. Houston made him a RFA which is what he wanted. Nope. I wouldn't be surprised if most people felt like Parsons is overpaid. Even the Mavs admitted as such. Therefore, no one can blame Morey for not matching.
