He has 2 more years on his contract so he cannot make more than his current contract unless a team offers him more than his current one. Not going to happen. Whatever he makes next 2 years will be subtracted from his current one for Detroit. So he will be looking to be on a championship contender and sorry but that is not Miami. It is between Houston and Dallas again but this time Morey has edge in so many ways it's not fair. Smith is a 4, not a shooting 3. Not a stretch 4 but the way Houston goes for 3 he will fit right in.
Not to mention (as posted previously) it can move d-mo to the bench and give more touches to howard/harden, giving us consistent offense throughout the game (and in turn d-mo will prob get more touches as he will be the focus of the 2nd unit). Overall, i think it could end up being a big win
driving into the paint would be a no go zone with the arms of ariza, brewer, smith and having dwight behind them.
Is this our final roster? Howard Smith Ariza Harden Beverly Dmo Jones Papa Brewer Terry Dorsey/black Canaan Wow. Stacked w likely the best defense in the nba and the scoring leader to boot
No he is not. "This board" is exactly right. Do you realize a lottery team just paid him $20+ million to go away? They paid him to get him the hell away from their team. That should speak tons on how much of an upgrade Josh Smith currently is. Stop living in the past. He's just bad now.
Ok, like many I'm not a fan of Smith's shooting, but what if he came in and adapted to a role of being our starting PF and focused on defense. Smith is a great defender and fills the exact role we needed last year against Portland. Now to top that off he's a decent passer and pretty good in transition. Imagine a defensive squad with Dwight, Josh, Trevor, Brew and Bev. Wow, talking about shutting down another team. Given, TJones situation and Smith's low cost, this seems like a Morey low risk/high reward kind of move. Smith has McHale, Dwight, Harden, Ariza, Terry and Brewer to keep him in line. We've got a good locker room and he can conform to the team or head somewhere else.
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Is he really? What makes you say he is an upgrade TODAY? I mean 4 years ago, but his percentages are horrid. DD
I've seen a couple of claims in articles that Josh Smith has offset language in the Pistons contract meaning that for whatever NBA salary he makes an equal amount will be subtracted from what the Pistons owe him until the end of that contract. I'm not sure if it is true, but I do know teams try to slip it in. If so, the money issues are going to be less important than people are assuming.
Winning cures all. Pistons are straight garbage and so is the city. I would be dying to get out of there.
What has Josh Smith done other than be bad enough both on and off the court to be paid 26 mil to not keep playing for a team and just go away?
That's not houston's problem with what went on there. Fresh start. He comes here getting paid next to nothing and probably replaces a player whose a non factor. You're worrying about something that's over with. Look at the circumstances. Just sounds like you just want to criticize.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Correction: Hearing short list for Josh Smith is Spurs, Suns, Rockets, Kings and 76ers as wild card.</p>— Jordan Schultz (@Schultz_Report) <a href="https://twitter.com/Schultz_Report/status/547223006423314433">December 23, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
