Bosh's agent threatens to sign 5 year deal outright to put Bosh in Heat

Exactly, Bosh's agent is saying you'll lose him for nothing. He's taking some of their leverage away and if Bosh REALLY wants a SnT he'll play along. He doesn't want his previous team taking away too much talent from his new team.

 

Call his bluff and force Bosh to choose Houston :grin:

 

WTF are you yapping about? It's obviously his tweet is about the announcement. What else do you think it is? Him getting a haircut or getting laid?

 

what is he suppose to say/do? If we didnt get him, then we didnt get him. He doesnt have to apoligize or notify us, just move on. Plus bosh doesnt have to notify him of anything. Bosh knows where houston stands and that's all he needs and all morey wanted. I'm pretty sure morey knew he was going to have to sit back and wait, and if bosh ever came calling it would be at the end when his other options didnt work out.

 

This is disgusting sensationalism. No where in that article is there any insinuation whatsoever that Bosh's agent is "threatening" him with a deal. It's a ridiculous notion considering the agent is a middle man and the player is the boss. If Bosh doesn't want to play with Wade, he's not going to play with Wade and his agent can't do anything about it.

Seriously, how does no one call this out? You guys just believe whatever ppl write on here or what? C'mon man. "Who else would leak it" is all the evidence you need to know that Bosh's agent is threatening him? God.

I cannot wait until this trashy free agency is over, I'm so tired of this non-news garbage.

 

Really, it's obvious? I just mentioned how much time he's been spending with his family and how much he's enjoyed it, and you want to bring up getting a haircut and getting laid? Yeah that makes a lot of sense. I even gave a perfect example of how his tweet can be misinterpreted when i mentioned scola's tweet, yet it still must be about basketball, right?

He's tweeted something positive about pretty much every team he's met with and every tweet can be spun around to mean he "made a choice", yet he hadnt. For once, let stop with all the BS speculation that we, not he or any of the FAs, are feeding ourselves.

"Things happen for a reason, stay positive", a tweet by Lowry...must mean he's leaving us, right? Couldnt possibly be about something else that's going on in his life

 

Boom goes the dynamite.

So yeah, I knew it.

 

You're way off base. OP is suggesting that Bosh's agent is threatening to take the 5 yr deal from Miami to get leverage on Toronto.

Basically, who will blink first -- Bosh or Toronto..

 

Oh. I'm a r****d, sorry about that. I just read the headline and the first paragraph and got angry.

 

I agree.

 

Who do they even have on their roster: Beasley and Chalmers? Anyone else?

They can't trade consecutive First Round picks, right? Do they own someone else's?

How do they do a S&T for a highly-compensated guy with two guys on rookie contracts and First Rounds picks the second of which is probably 3 or 4 years out?

 

Bosh won't walk, he's a gold digger....HAHAHA BS

 

Nothing. i am just speculating aloud is all. I do that often and people think i am making a statement. I think aloud on the keyboard and somtimes it i am just spouting off at the mouth. It just makes sense for Morey to be working is a good sign I am thinking or if he is around the town and doesnt know anything yet? Then thats a sgn to not worry because Bosh isnt coming here tomorrow. I thinks a good sign I havent seen Morey around or could be nothing. Maybe he is having a night to himself at his house? Dont know. More speculation in a day and week filled with it. So i am going with the theme. Nobody knows nothing.

 

no Henry Thomas works for himself

please

He is looking at his bottom dollar

Getting his two biggest agents together will results in a whole lot of extra marketing/endorsement deals he can negotiate which will only help his own wallet. If he gets them both in chicago where he is based and has several connections then even more so.


I think you are the guy who keeps saying "follow the money trail"

EVERYONE from Bosh, Wade, Lebron, ESPN, Maverick Carter, World Wide Wes to Henry Thomas are all thinking to themselves how THEY can profit the most out of this.


Honestly if Thomas felt he personally could earn more money from Bosh being in Houston then Bosh would have been signed and traded by now. I do not know the exact why international deals work but if they are structured differently from domestic deals (from the agent's standpoint in that they get paid less through whatever loopholes) than Thomas thinks "Houston isn't a good choice for you Chris" and tells Bosh this.

lets says a max contract + endorsements brings in Thomas 30 million if Bosh is in Houston over the life of the contract

and a max deal + endorsements brings in Thomas 40 million for Wade

right there its 70 million for him

now if Thomas can pair the two together and can make even more via endorsements (71 million+) he is going to do it

(note all these numbers are arbitrary to make my point clearer)


I am not saying Henry Thomas doesnt care about Bosh but he certainly doesn't have Bosh's best interests as a player and a person.

 

and i cant say i disagree with the OP, it's a typical negotiation....bosh went and collected all the info he needed last week, including initial offers, as did toronto.....he soaked it in over the weekened, narrowed it down (apparently to Miami), thought up some possible scenarios and alternatives and now brought that back to the table. Now his agent has to go to Toronto and try to get them to work with Bosh in this S&T...Toronto either will give in (and the deal will be completed) or they wont and bosh either settles for 5 yrs or moves on to his next option (possibly Houston).

 

Toronto is going to blink first when it comes to it.

Bosh stands to lose 1 year of the contract at around 30M. The only other option is to go to a team he has NO desire to go to whatsoever (the Rockets, a revelation which is painfully clear by now if you've been following ANYTHING).

Toronto stands to lose Bosh for nothing at all. As opposed to gaining SOMETHING, which would be the trade exception (same as not signing Bosh) and Michael Beasley, the former #2 pick in the draft, plus some more picks presumably, including their own. Toronto will acquiese and do the SnT at the last second.

Sorry to say it, but things look bleak for Bosh to Houston at the moment. The only chance we have is for Michael Thomas to suddenly die of a heart attack or other means. Not that I'm implying anything. Of course not, that would be outrageous.

 

It is indeed a threaten because Bosh has nothing to lose. He always has Houston as his fall-back plan.

 

So I hope Toronto can tell to **** off.

 

Err Henry Thomas. Wouldn't want Michael Thomas or whoever he is to die at all. Call off the dogs Morey!

 

at this point he just waits...he's already made a S&T offer to toronto, now all he can do is wait and see if Bosh decides to come here....there isnt anything else to do because this isn't the typical trade negotiations where you're constantly going back and forth with offers until both sides agree. Morey can't be playing that game right now because he'll end up giving them his best offer before bosh even chooses us...then if he does choose us Toronto will try to negotiate again since they have leverage (Bosh wanting to come here), so morey will end up giving more than what he wanted.

so leave it as is, he made a low, but qualifying bid, and that's good for now