There are two Insiders for the Rockets...the one from yesterday and today. Yesterday... The Heat have hit the free agent lottery with the signings of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. They may also sign Mike Miller to add to that trio. Will we ever see this again when teams gut their rosters with the hope of bringing together a group of all-stars? "I don't think so," Rockets general manager Daryl Morey told the Houston Chronicle when asked if the Heat would start a trend in the NBA. "I think it was a unique situation where players of that caliber are all free agents at the same time. They came out of one of the best drafts in NBA history. "Teams have to create the room, which obviously worked out for Miami and they did a great job, but it didn't work out so well for the teams that didn't get him that created the room. It's a very risky strategy still that I'm not sure teams will implement. With a prize like LeBron it was probably worth it. When the prize is lesser, which is pretty likely, I'm not sure teams will take the risk of cutting their team down to having one player on the roster." Today... The Rockets have not had any movement on the free agent front and that is the plan of general manager Daryl Morey. Jonathan Feigen Houston Chronicle writes: The Rockets have not made them (Luis Scola and Kyle Lowry) offers since the qualifying offers necessary to keep their rights match offers they should receive. That does not reflect their interest in keeping them. Teams often wait. Any offer the Rockets give to Lowry or Scola would become a starting point for negotiations with other teams and would guarantee the offer sheets they receive back would be greater. They likely do not want to lowball offers to get things moving. That does not accomplish much and the qualifying offers sort of serve the same purpose. So they wait at least until the mad money has been doled out and the offers their free agents are likely to receive are more in line with what the Rockets would like to pay." As the free agents come off the board there's a good chance a team under the cap, like New Jersey, might try to sign Scola to an offer sheet.
In the Internet Age, the only way you can have scoops that last more than a few minutes are to do it like HW, where you go out on a limb, National Enquirer-like.
If you were ESPN and had some significant information to report, why would you risk putting it on Insider and then letting Fox, CBS, and the others report it on their regular websites or networks before you have it on yours? If you put it on Insider, which is seen by far fewer people than a regular news outlet, you're letting the competitors win.
