IMO, Payroll is the key factor to build up stronger team, not everything. Obviously, Knicks is wrong with sth else, not Payroll. Winning the champion in a cheap way is much difficult.
The higher payrolls get more energy and more chance in the same efficiency. A partner owner of Championship team >>>>> A total Owner of Nonchampion team why not Alexander find some partners to invest in Rockets?
Apparently you still didn't ge tit. You cannot just start signing whomever you want. If the team is above the salary cap then they cannot sign anyone else. Not Bonzi Wells, not Tim Duncan, not even me. The difference between the Rockets payroll and the Mavericks payroll is because the Mavericks, have given the players that have played for them the last few years, big raises. It isn't because Marc Cuban decided to sign a bunch of Free Agents. For the Rockets to be able to add more payroll, like you want, they would have to do it through trades. That would mean, trading Yao or T-Mac for more expensive players, or trading some of the "lower paid" players for superstars (not going to happen, because, well because most GM's are not stupid). So unfortunately you will have to be satisfied with the current roster. If you can't then you may need to jump on the Dallas Bandwagon.
2005-2006 NBA Salaries Team Payroll 1. New York Knicks $126,610,272 2. Dallas Mavericks $97,881,086 3. Philadelphia 76ers $84,690,863 4. Indiana Pacers $78,681,968 5. Orlando Magic $75,365,655 6. Los Angeles Lakers $72,866,195 7. Houston Rockets $69,208,809 8. Memphis Grizzlies $67,518,596 9. New Jersey Nets $66,030,223 10. San Antonio Spurs $63,034,710 11. Sacramento Kings $62,811,975 12. Milwaukee Bucks $62,563,359 13. Toronto Raptors $62,123,201 14. Minnesota Timberwolves $61,649,061 15. Miami Heat $59,997,698 16. Portland Trailblazers $59,966,214 17. Detroit Pistons $59,619,275 18. Utah Jazz $57,407,402 19. Chicago Bulls $57,166,530 20. Golden State Warriors $57,115,566 21. Boston Celtics $56,907,300 22. Denver Nuggets $55,956,608 23. Washington Wizards $54,555,947 24. Phoenix Suns $53,626,924 25. Los Angeles Clippers $50,931,212 26. Cleveland Cavaliers $50,836,871 27. Seattle Sonics $48,900,280 28. Atlanta Hawks $42,944,553 29. New Orleans Hornets $41,277,617 30. Charlotte Bobcats $33,458,932 http://www.dfw.net/~patricia/misc/salaries06.txt
jingle77. You bring disgrace to the family of 77's on this proud BBS. Please chop off your left hand.
I have a source that knows Les very well. According to him, Les is running low on money due to smoe bad buisness deals. That's why he may be looking to sell the rockets
Threads like this make me believe rookies should *not* be allowed to start threads, even though I am one myself.
Dude this isn't baseball, you can't just buy a dam team, over time u could but you just can't be like "I'm going spend whatever it takes to get the 5 best fa's this offseason". But yeah, this thread should be locked. Grats on being a rookie rockets fan, glad you know the name of our owner
Just for fun because it's summertime and nothing else to do, lets count how many ways this is wrong. If anybody finds more, please add them. 1. Les is stupid: Wrong. Les is filthy rich and I doubt he got all that money by being stupid. 2. Les should go over the salary cap: Wrong. Les doesn't actually make personnel decisions. Technicality, but I'm having fun. 3. ...go over the salary cap: Wrong. The Rockets are ALREADY over the salary cap. 4. Buy some good players: Wrong. What good players are available to be bought right now? 5. Buy some good players: Wrong. Salary cap rules would prohibit "buying" good players given that we are over the cap already. 6. Buy some good players: Wrong. Even if you buy "good" players, does that mean those players will play good once they get here? Finding "good" players is easier said then done. 7. ...more wins he can make more money: Wrong. In principal this is probably correct but you are premising that "good" players automatically translates to more wins ...which is a faulty assumption. There are COUNTLESS examples of teams spending $ which never translated to more wins. Therefore, less wins means he can make LESS MONEY. As a businessman, Les needs to weight those possibilities. That's 7 things wrong with your two sentence post. Pretty impressive, really.
NO you would not be a true clutch fan if you dare to voice this. Meanwhile the value of the franchise has gone up a couple of hundred million dollars in the last few years. Yao and Tracy should demand some players even if it costs Les a few million. Who knows? with a championship contender Les might fill some seats, sell some merchandise and recoup most of the expense.
Robbie 380...shouldn't this site be in Navajo? IMO we need a 4/5 player more than any other guard. Hopefully some of these new guys can throw a decent pass into Yao. Thats why I don't mind Alston, he may be an inconsistent shooter, but atleast he knows where his bread and butter is. I want to wait and see what some of these guys can do in preseason before I start calling for heads.
Bingo! What we needed last year was health, youth, role players and shooting. You've got three of the four right there in spades. You can never predict health, but...ah I don't want to jinx it. 06-07 is going to rock.
After sitting and reading this thread to this point, I suffered a brain haemorrage (proven by my poor spelling of that there word) and carked the big one! I will rise again however, and when I do, try and avoid threads started by rookies.
Just because you've taken English 4 in your home country, does not mean we know what you are saying. Usually you can't hear someone's accent just by reading a msg they put online but yours is loud and clear.
Absolutely. We need to sign RyBo to a 5 year ~70 million dollar extension stat. That way we will have plenty of energy and a really high payroll. Why are we being so cheap?
Guys, you get so fuzzy in your logic. "The higher payrolls get more energy and more chance in the same efficiency. " Pay T-mac&Yao Twice, Pay RyBo 70 million,... who will do this except you ? As a rocket fans, I just talk about my opion on making Rockets team stronger, and you guys just talking like Alexander paid you.
Obviously you didn't get the memo that members of clutchfans ARE being paid by Alexander. In fact, here's the breakdown on what he gets by paying us: 1 clutchfans member = 1 energy point 1 clutchfans member getting paid by Les = 10 energy points 10000 clutchfans member getting paid by Les = 100000 energy points so, in turn, as Les has an increase in payroll for clutchfans, our energy not only increases but our chance (for what? i have no idea! but chance is ALWAYS GREAT!) increases WHILE our efficiency stays the same.
These rookie threads drive me insane! I have a real good idea though, ready to hear me out? We should start trading our players for overpaid players! We can give Luther Head to Portland and a couple draft picks for D. Miles. Maybe after that we can go after C. Webb's contract. That should make us spend more money. Cheap Les.
