I dont feel bad for Rashard at all. He is not worth the max. He might as well figure that out. 64 Mill is a great paycheck. He should take it and run. He cannot get the max anywhere.
Lews is screwing around and is about to be left in the cold. 64mil is pretty good for the numbers he puts up and one or two of those incentives are very reachable. He'll never avg. 9.25 boards a game at the SF but he at least as a shot at the incentives and should reach them if he;s the MAX player he thinks he is. He will get screwed if he goes to Dallas though. With all those weapons he'll be lucky to avg. 14-15ppg and his min. and the rest of his overall stats will drop IMO. After 3 seasons of putting up 15 & 6 there is no way in hell Cuban will MAX him out if he keeps him around at all. He'd have a much better chance of putting up numbers and getting paid playing for the Rocks over the Mavs. However, I think he should just wake up and take the garunteed cash thats right in front of his face in Seattle and just play.
Some people say, "Rashard is all about the money." Others say, "He should just take take the money, run, and be thankful." Sometimes even the same person will say both things. Kind of a contradiction, no? Has anyone ever thought, maybe it's not ALL about the money? Don't you find it interesting the only two other teams he's really talked to are Houston and Dallas? Two teams close to his home? If anyone thinks his agent is urging him to sign with Dallas over the guaranteed money that Seattle is offering him you have to be crazy. Like an agent is going to pass up all that cash based on a non-binding promise from a double-crossing business man like Mark Cuban. The fact is Lewis wants to play close to home, he's said this on numerous occasions. If he could get a sign and trade for 64 million to play in Houston or Dallas he would do it in a second. But to play thousands of miles from home in a city that he doesn't much care for, it's going to take more than that. I'm beginning to wonder if Lewis every had any intention of resigning with Seattle.
Eggs-ACK-ly. (I knew a guy, a year ago, in Houston, that was one of the brother's favorite words: exactly. But he pronounced it so emphatically: Eggs-ACK-ly!) Seattle with its rain, Houston with its humidity. But, for Rashard, humidity is home. Rashard certainly must know that Payton has no extension, and, therefore, might not stay with the team. Without Payton, Rashard no longer has a great PG feeding him the ball. Time to move on.
