now that Toronto has lost fat Sully it would be nice if we could do a S+T with them for DMO if indeed he's planning to go to Europe.
Last lockout all RFAs remained RFAs. In fact, one left to Europe to go make money during the lockout, but didn't make it back prior to March 1st, so he no longer could field offer sheets and had to sign with incumbent team. You don't lose any rights during lockouts. It would be like a UFA losing Bird rights with his.current team. Nothing special about RFA wrt lockouts
It appears the Rockets will miss guard Patrick Beverley (knee injury) and power forward Donatas Motiejunas (contract dispute) to start the season. Beverley is scheduled for surgery on Tuesday and will be gone four-to-six weeks. Motiejunas hasn't signed his $4.4 million qualifying offer and it's expired. If he does sign a contract before the final cuts are announced on Monday, it's doubtful he'll be ready for Wednesday's opener at the Lakers. "Taking two guys who can play 60 minutes, 30 each, who aren't here, it's going to have an impact," Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni said. -Calvin Watkins
When he says taking guys ... Does that mean we are for sure signing Dmo ? Or was the quote in response to a question and just phrased that way ... Because the way it sounds .. Bev and another player who will play 30 min are locks for the roster but neither will play the opener . The other player likely being Dmo .
At this point, you have to wonder if the bitterness created by this process is even worth overcoming.
What he's saying is essentially "taking away" meaning that in his mind, the Rockets will be likely down essentially 2 starters to begin the season. Bev due to injury, DMo due to Morey being cheap.
That is not true, it is entirely dependent on the new deal. The league can mandate what it likes but the new CBA covers it. DD
Sure, anything can change, and contracts and team/player rights can also be grandfathered and continued despite changes. But that wasn't really the question...at least it wasn't what I was answering. My answer was in regard to the question "Would any rfa rights die with the end of term June 2017?" The answer I gave was that they didn't on the last lockout, so rights like that and existing player contracts don't become null and void, just because the CBA expired. They will negotiate them into the new one, with possible changes, sure, but to answer the question that it means teams automatically lose RFA rights is not correct. There is nothing automatic about it. And it would be risky to bet on it. And keep in mind that RFA was the very first type of Free Agent in the NBA. UFA's came later. So, my bet is that protecting drafted players from being stolen away from teams will continue in some form or fashion.
Bev is always injured; he's an injury prone player. And he's really not that great of a player in general. I like his toughness and heart, but I wanted to trade him this offseason. DMo is just being stupid. Sign your tender, prove you aren't injury prone, then bolt for big money next offseason. He's stupid.
LOL isn't everyone saying Morey overpaid for Brewer and Bev? Now Morey is too cheap. Personally given what happened with Brewer and Bev I'd like it if Morey is cheap on players with question marks moving forward. You don't want him to pay 7M for DMo and have the dude injured again this season.
Well that's why it's so odd. They overpay a total scrub like Brewer, then throw tons of cash at injury prone guys like Anderson, Gordon, and Bev.....and then when it comes to DMo for whatever reason Morey feels like he's gotta pinch pennies. I'm a LOT more worried about paying Gordon and Anderson 30 million dollars this year to be hurt than I am about Morey paying DMo 7 or 8 mil and having him get hurt. Hell I'm more worried about Morey allowing Brewer to be on the roster at all than I am about DMo.
Brewer wasn't really a scrub when he got signed to his contract, his play was really good I don't know if you just blocked it from your mind but guys were saying he should start over Ariza at the time. Same thing with Pat Bev, nobody was complaining (except JLin stans) when he got that contract. Anderson and Gordon had to be overpaid because they are free agents who can get similar contracts from other teams, DMO oth has proven that no team wants him but the Rockets. You pay the market rate all the time, if the Rox pay DMo more money when they don't have to then that just makes him dumb when you consider his injury risk, Morey already did that with Chandler Portions and now everybody is roasting him for it so I don't know why he'd do that again. What doesn't make sense to me is you think paying Gordon and Anderson were mistakes but then you want Morey to compound that with another high risk signing in DMo. Isn't that like adding even more risk to an already risky lineup? It's like saying the room is too hot but let's drink coffee and eat newly made chicken noodle soup.
