Stupid question is stupid. And as typical, instead of focusing on the more factual information provided, you gravitate to the opinion based in any effort to discredit Morey. Do you really think he's not making any effort to make a trade and upgrade the roster? And during the interim do you not think he's going to work with value contracts? Why don't you ask if water is wet?
Agreed. And sure the contract was structured in a way that made it untradeable, but Fegan's client doesn't want to be traded, he wants to be part of a team's long term plans. Nobody did anything wrong. Well, except signing fake documents in a club.
As I have mentioned and many of us already know, Dan Fegan and Mark Cuban are tight. I'm sure there was reason a couple seasons back that Dallas was among the few teams mentioned in Dwight Howard's list of favorite potential landing-spots; Fegan practically has an office down the hall from Cuban (I said, practically). Fegan was certainly leaking the names of those teams to the media, and feeding information about that organization to Dwight. Obviously when Morey landed Dwight (probably against Cuban's wishes) it didn't do anything to warm relations between the Rockets FO and Fegan. Fegan certainly didn't hesitate in Boozering us. Anyway, if Morey's animosity toward Fegan is this bad (and I don't blame him), cross off Ricky Rubio from that "we're going after a PG" equation, since, as we know, Rubio is Fegan's client. Man, Bosh staying in Miami. One simple act. But it's like the small hole in the dam that, when the spider crawls into it, suddenly bursts. "Parsons is obviously a big reason Howard came here" = Parsons was the main recruiter. People are worried Howard will leave because Parsons might recruit him to go to f***ing Dallas. But I won't put too much stock into it. That's two years away. I think Morey will salvage all this (I'm hoping), but I will admit that he does have the can't-read-people engineer/stat geek problem. You don't stick your hand in the hornet's nest by going after Dirk Nowitzki, who, by all accounts, would never, EVER, EVER leave Dallas; why even make the phone call?
I don't think Dwight leaves because of Parsons. If he leaves it's because Morey hasn't built a team and we havnt one. I think the Parsons Howard crap is way overblown
I mean, look. There's no doubt that they had the same reaction IN the team as we did from the outside looking in (if not more significant). No doubt they are worried and probably upset by some of the loses. They probably have a lot of questions that need to be answered. I have no doubt (okay, maybe a little) that Morey will answer some of those questions before people have the chance to defect.
Not the way I wanted my day to start. Well damn. We really need a deep playoff run to erase any doubt in Dwight's mind.
I doubt Howard really cared what Parsons did. He himself has constantly referred to "James and I" when talking about the leaders of the team. And I'm not really worried about him opting out. That's still two years away, and he was going to opt out anyway. Call me if we don't acquire a 3rd star within the next 2 years.
Hmmmm, Morey and I agree on Fegans. Can't stand the guy. On another note, you make it sound as if there was an agreed-to contract or at least terms of a contract between Fegans and Morey for Parsons and Fegans possibly double-crossed him with a superior offer from Cuban. I know for a fact that Fegans is dishonest and his word means absolutely nothing. He breaks deals and promises all the time. Don't know why other GMs keep dealing with him.
Golden State had no way to even get Dwight unless he agreed to what? 3m? Under the old cba, teams ended up making s&t deals essentially trading longer contracts for picks (see Miami/Cleveland) But now, Every team calls the "I'll sign with x unless you s&t to a team without cap space" bluff like Phil did with the whole Lakers crap with Melo (care to guess what Phil would have told Jeannie to do?). As for Dallas, man, Harden's playoff debacle was a Jordanesque performance compared to what Dirk pumped out, and that was with the Spurs off in fairy land the first few games of that series (it was like last year against GS, they were just off, then the engine turned on and they steamrolled the back end, and then everyone else but OKC w/Ibaka).
I think if we did on Boozer it'd eliminate some of our options, wouldn't it? But I forget which ones...TPE? MLE? Made me think he wouldn't be worth all that....UNLESS we had a separate deal going for a PG and had no need of what acquiring Boozer would cost us.
What makes things worst is that if this roster stays the same - their draft pick will be better than last years - but now its going to the Lakers. At least they have New Orleans DP.
