Mr Howard, Why do you want to go to LA/NY/NJ? If you go to LA, you're going to a team that has a soon-to-be 34 yr old Kobe that makes $27,849,000 next year and $30,453,000 the year after. Consider your own contract is expected to be starting around ~$19,000,000 and up a year, that's approximately 47 million for TWO players, one of them an aging 15 yr vet. When the cap is 58-60 million per year, HOW THE HECK DO YOU EXPECT to fill a 12 man roster and a competent 8 man rotation, let alone a competent starting 5 when you have 2 players hogging 80+% of your cap space??? Do you know who else makes $28 million / yr? Lowry + Scola + Martin + Parsons. That's a complete 5 man starting team perfectly built around a dominant big man like you and you have guys like Patterson/Bud/Morris/DMo for cheap. You even have a little cap space left to recruit a couple of your best friends like Courtney Lee and such. No other team can offer you the best chance to win a championship and still make the most money and be in a big-city environment. NY will have similar cap space issues and NJ's roster will be you/Dwill + D leaguers. It's an easy choice to make. Think about it. sincerely, Sane Rockets Fan.
#DESPERATE I hate to say it but....Dallas. One of his preferred destinations too. Deron, Dwight, Dirk.
Dwight says no, but your logic makes a lot of sense. But we have to give up a huge chunk of scola martin and Lowry in order to get Howard
With McHale as a head coach Dwight would be foolish to come here. McHale would bench him in cruch time and run Scola at the 5.
Dallas has Dirk making ~$21,000,000 next year Shawn Marion + Haywood making a cool $17million together. That with Dwight's 18-20 is the entire cap space. Plus they only have Beubois as a young player with potential. They, and most of the other teams in the new CBA era share the same problem. Rox are one of the rare teams that have 2 just below allstar level guys like Scola and Martin on reasonable contracts plus a legit all star level true PG like Lowry at a bargain price of $5.75mil plus a brigade of youth.
It would take a roster overhaul for the Mavs, yes. Let all their FAs walk, amnesty Haywood, and trade some guys. Not for sure but I think would give them room for Dwight and Deron. Deron, Dwight, and Dirk? Not bad. You got your stars, now you build around it like Miami did. Calling all old veterans!! As for Houston, I just dont see it happening. No stars here. Sorry but no one is coming to play with Lowry, ha, right or wrong, dumb or smart. I think the Rockets would also have to do some roster cleaning or re-shuffling. Likely saying goodbye to Scola and/or Martin. I'll leave all that stuff up to Bima and the other cap experts. I just pretend.
Dirk/Dwight/DWil would be the entire cap space. They would have no young guys. Can you find 5 solid vets that would take the minimum to make you a legit championship contender?
And I think Cuban/the Mavs would be ok with that. That's true. Solid vets? Right now, no I can't. These are just guesses. Ian Mahimni? Brian Cardinal? I'm sure those guys would gladly go back at minimum salary Marcus Camby? Vince Carter? Nazr Mohammed? Chauncey Billups? Antwan Jamison? Boris Diaw? Jermaine O'Neal? Dare I say Kidd and/or Nash? I cant even believe I'm "defending" Dallas, ha, but I do think that is a possible scenario. I unfortunately can't say the same about Houston. It sucks but...I don't know man, I don't know.
Yup! Ask Miami, you'd have FA vets comming out the woodwork taking the league minimum. Honestly with those three guys you can fill the rest of the roster with Dleague call ups and be a contender.
Wow you're a lifesaver. You must replace Morey. BUT he said no to golden state, wouldnt that give a hint to the rockets fans??
Dream, being a foreigner, had that humble attitude and a great work ethic. The limelight meant nothing to him. He worked hard, practiced hard, played hard, and is a legend because of it. These young American superstars have grown up with that shallow reality TV culture of the past 10 years and they all expect to be super famous, super rich, and in a bunch of commercials and TV shows. That's more important to them than putting in the work to master the game unfortunately, and that is why those big market cities like LA or NYC are a bigger attraction to them.
