It will be interesting to see if Rockets use that 3.5M in cash to include in a trade before FA begins.
Based on the opportunities we passed over last night.......I have to think there's already a deal agreed to on some level that I'd waiting to be executed. Utah, for one, is practically begging us for Beverley. Small market team. If they're able to keep Hayward, Hill and the rest of the guys they're gonna be cash tight. If they can't retain Hayward/Hill, then Bev makes a lot of sense for them, and we can dump them $3.5 million now. Especially if they'll agree to take Anderson and $5.1 million off our hands after the moratorium for Diaw's non-guaranteed deal. Something similar would work with Sacramento and a third team (Utah) as well. Or possibly with Sacramento straight up. If Sacramento got $8.6 million to take Anderson into their cap they may be able to flip him at the deadline. Or they may actually want to keep him. Or the Pacers themselves may finally realize it's over and they need to go to the lottery. They're not going to get anybody signed to help them. And they didn't draft any difference makers. Bev and a future second grim us to Utah. Cash from us to Indy. A future second from Indy to us and a token protected second back to Utah from Indy. Then after the moratorium Anderson, two firsts, and Gordon to Indy for George.
Typical Morey/Les big game hunting. They do it every summer. This summer they want to bag 2 superstars (Taking less money than supermax $). Make everyone available for trades except Harden. See who remains. Fill in the gaps with vets who want to chase a ring on vet minimum. Add Zhou Qi, Jon Diebler, Chinanu, A Gentile, possibly Sergio Llull if he can find his backbone and man up and play with the big boys. Rookies rarely payoff big dividends in their first year(s).
IIRC, most of the time Les was buying picks was when Yao's insurance policy was covering his salary....I don't recall Les spending a lot in normal years. DD
DUDE You started a thread suggesting Les is having financial trouble and that is the reason he didn't use the $3.5 million to get a 2nd rounder that you wanted. You got @DaDakota all riled up with his usual "Les is cheap" crap. You were not thinking the money was being held back to make a deal work that would get Les spending hundreds of millions on the roster the next few seasons. Come on man.
Who knew one day Les would make it rain more than James Harden? Can someone PLEASE make a gif of Les makin it rain.
Well, he predicted everything, so regardless of most of it contradicting his main point - that Les is in financial trouble - he could have said something which vaguely resembled what happened. This is what he has been doing for some time. If everything is fluid, and everything he says is fluid, then once in a while those two things will intersect, and he never has to admit he was wrong.
