Haslem, yet another guy that would improve the Rockets' piss poor play at the 4. Any warm body with a pulse is a good bet to improve upon the Rockets' PF play from last year. We should be happy that another option has presented itself to us.
Exactly. Funny no one complained or yelled UNFAIR! when in 2010, the Spurs resign Richard Jefferson to a long term contract in exchange for him opting out of a 15year million dollar option. From Clutchfans own Kelly Dwyer - http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ba...Richard-Jefferson-for-a-great-?urn=nba-257651 So that's why the news, which hit late last month about Richard Jefferson opting out of the last year of a contract that would pay him $15 million next season, always made sense. Not for Jefferson -- it was possible he could have snagged a nice deal on the open market, but by and large it was assumed he was nuts because nobody would overpay for someone who was so miserable on the court last season -- but in NBA terms. It made sense because the guy was overrating his own value. And even when it became apparent the Spurs would be the team to re-sign Jefferson -- that they had been working in concert with him to encourage the opt out, and would be engineering a penny-foolish, pound-wise deal to aid him into his 30s -- it still made sense. The Spurs, you watch, will do everything right. Then the news hits yesterday. Jefferson re-signs for four years, $38.8 million. Guh. And the fourth year, which everyone assumed to be non-guaranteed, is actually a player option. As if Jefferson is going to think twice about wanting to be paid $11 million in 2013-14.
There is nothing fishy going on. Their players are sacrificing money to bring more talent in and win. It's the same thing other teams and players have been doing. Those other situations just didn't have as many guys/stars free at the same time. Players have the right to take less money.
