Bibby did not sign the MLE with Atlanta. He may have been given MLE type money, but to resign your own expiring contracts you can offer them whatever you want from the minimum to the max. The MLE is only when you are signing other team's free-agents.
If Morey pulls this off I may to have to start chanting " Im not worthy" "Im not worthy" I imagine they will just sign Ariza outright with the MLE its not like we would have been using the money on another player of importance probably just our Rooks and maybe a slightly better center but knowing Morey not a huge overvauled guy.
If we pass Ariza and keep this MLE, then the MLE had better be kept till the market closes to save Les some cash. Ariza is obviously a much better player than Von and this guy is also very willing to join our team, plus his champion experience can also help us alot. Von Wafer is just a marginal player that once got cut by the Lakers while Ariza is a cornerstone on their champion team. After landing Ariza, Morey will have more flexibility to make extended moves, further precisely, Battier can be move while his value is still not very low.
I pray they don't reel in Adam Morrison, not because he sucks, but because I don't think I could handle the stream of threads that would litter the front page suggesting that he can somehow develop in Houston as happens on cue every time a scrub with unrealized potential is acquired as a filler (Reece Gaines, Maciej Lampe, etc etc)...
sign&trade Ron for Ariza? League Minimum is acceptable to Von? Deke jumps out of his retirement already?
Lakers cannot sign&trade their FA and trade him in a package, as the relating rule tells it, they can trade him singly though.
Why not? How's that any difffernt than Keith Van Horn being signed and traded in a package along with Devon Harris and Diop for Jason Kidd? The details: Kidd, forward Malik Allen and swingman Antoine Wright are sent to Dallas for 24-year-old point guard Devin Harris, center DeSagana Diop, swingman Trenton Hassell, guard Maurice Ager, Van Horn via sign-and-trade, first-round draft picks this June and in 2010 and $3 million in cash. The teams originally planned to move Wright to Dallas in a separate transaction but were able to make the salary-cap math work in a single trade after the deal was reconfigured over the weekend. http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3253107
