I don't agree with anything the OP states other than Morey ****ing over Landry. This will make extending Landry very hard.
He's more than welcome to his opinions, however factually incorrect they might be. I am as big of Hakeem fan as anyone. He was done when he left the Rockets. I can't blame the Rockets for being ready to move on. Bonzi Wells and Steve Francis were no where near the players they were previously...especially Francis. He was nothing short of terrible in his attempt to come back. If he was as good as you said, how come he couldn't make it with Memphis? Wells was just pathetic. He wanted no part of JVG's system. G-d forbid he had to play defense. Landry wanted a guaranteed contract as a 2nd round pick. Why should a team give a 2nd round pick a guaranteed contract if they don't have to? For his next thread, JCDenton will explain to us how Scottie Pippen got a raw deal in Houston and it was all the Rockets fault.
I stopped reading when you talked about Tracy. He showed his class first, we have every right as an organization to sit him after what we did. Stars wont care who they play for, they want a) the most money/best contract and b) a winning team. Most of everything else you're saying is just business. Guess you pick up my garbage or something to not understand how a business works..
What you claim the Rockets have done could be said of almost any other NBA team. It is a cut throat business without loyalty or shame. Some organizations are a bit better than others, but few exhibit loyalty or fairness or class. Not a big fan of Stern or Alexander, but it's the NBA. Whether it was always the way it is today is hard to know.
How would we do that? I don't think you can be a restricted free agent more than once in your career and we've already played that card.
Well from these rules it would appear that landry would not qualify for unrestricted free agency, but next offseason he will be a full free agent. http://members.cox.net/lmcoon/salarycap.htm#Q36 36. What is restricted free agency? There are two types of free agency: unrestricted and restricted. An unrestricted free agent is free to sign with any other team, and there's nothing the player's original team can do to prevent it. Restricted free agency gives the player's original team the right to keep the player by matching an offer sheet the player signs with another team. This is called the "right of first refusal." Restricted free agency exists only on a limited basis. It is allowed following the fourth year of rookie "scale" contracts for first round draft picks (see question number 41). It is also allowed for all veteran free agents who have been in the league three or fewer seasons. However, a first round draft pick becomes an unrestricted free agent following his second or third season if his team does not exercise its option to extend the player's rookie scale contract for the next season. All other free agency is limited to unrestricted free agency.
For all the talk about how NBA players like hanging out in Houston, no state income taxes, etc... Houston has never been a destination for players in their PRIME. If history is any guide, we won't attract any superstar free agent.
Houston is a good drafting city. They'll draft good players and trade them off for the short-term which i could never understand. They are known to draft well and make big trades. The fact that the only free agents looking to sign with Houston is after tax breaks and money. They rarely sign or take less to win a chip. I think max free agents attend to avoid Houston, probably because of the weather or they just dont like it. Very rarely is there any large contracts offered as well.
Well, then refute his idiotic points if he's such an ass. I'm sure he (and myself, for that matter) are sick to death of the ROCKETS SUCK CUBAN IS AWESOME crap that's been here for the last day. Yeah, let's list all the free agent superstars who moved to other teams through free agency in their prime! Shaq. ........ Somehow, I don't think it's just Houston.
Trading has always been the best way to get a superstar other than the draft. Even so, the Rockets have always gotten their fair share of coveted free agents. We signed Ron Artest a year ago, for example. Remember him?
one might think. But the reality is bleak and houston is not the no. 1 destination. That is so true, even with Yao.
