Why 2010 Free Agents should all be looking at Houston as a possibility

WE HAS NO MONEY!!!

 

What are the chances of Yao returning to his former self again? He's only getting older and much weaker. Plus he will have to sit out for so long that his game would take a while for it to come back. Plus, who knows if he even going to be effective again.

I think stars rather play alongside with Dwight Howard other than Yao.

 

Bima, that's why I think its monumental they trade Shane. A guy I've brought up before is Raja Bell. He's expiring and would save the rockets almost 2m. He's a intangible player,can play uptempo, and larry would like a guy like shane. That move would open up more time for chase also. Another move would be battier and cook for camby. That would give morey 10m in expirings. Camby gives the team a center and again gives chase more playing time.

 

That's not necessarily the case anymore - his whole post was built around bringing Artest back starting at 8mil.. we got Ariza instead, starting at 5ish (IIRC). Also, it was assumed we'd have no one else on the roster and be penalized for a lack of 12 players, where as now we have Budinger, Taylor and possibly Pops.

I'd be interested to see him update the scenario, but perhaps after the trade deadline would be better so he doesn't have to keep updating.

 

LMFAO

 

Are you dense? The thread Bima linked to already had everything you need to know on this issue, why are you still talking about losing Tmac and Yao's salaries? He even bolded the important parts:

The least amount of salary we can have is $37.4 M

The logical amount of salary we'll have is $42.7M

^That's already w/o TMac, which is something you'd know if you read the thread. Yao's contract is guaranteed (another thing you'd know from the thread), the only way we'll get out of it is if someone absorbs his whole salary and gives us someone making less money in return. And before you ask about Les just paying for the luxury tax, we can't sign people if we're gonna go over the cap as a result of the signage. If the league says the cap is 50M, then we can only sign 50M-42.7M amount. The only exceptions would be the mid level (around 5 mill a year) and low level exception (around 2 mill a year). And finally, we can't combine the capspace and the midlevel/lowlevel exceptions to sign a player. In short, landing LBJ is impossible, impossible1.

 

Morey says we are in great shape for 2010 and he is much more cap savy than all of us, so I trust he has a plan.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5jNnDMfxA

 

chill out, no need to be a jerk about this. it's posts like this that force everyone who posts an article to put a disclaimer begging everyone not to rip them to shreds if already posted.

this is probably hopeless optimism, but should someone like lebron or wade or some other high profile free agent decide to sacrifice the cash (or part of it) in order to win a championship, houston might actually be one of the premier destinations. Those guys are worth the max, and I don't see them settling for the MLE, but if the Rockets could get roughly 10 million in cap room, that might be a happy medium.

The Rockets have the supporting cast in place to win a championship this season, they just don't have the star to lead them. If Yao comes back, that makes them even stronger. They've assembled guys who can produce at every position.

Lebron might actually be likely to look elswhere after the year is over. The Cavs are already 0-2 and the supporting cast he's been given is pretty limited. I know it's early, but the Cavs got bounced early by Orlando last year, and he has to be frustrated by the inability of his team to win games, no matter how well he plays. The longer their struggles continue, the more likely he is to bolt for greener (talent wise, not money wise) pastures.

Mo Williams is okay, but the rest of that team isn't spectacular. Everyone who thinks Lebron is leaving has penciled him into NY, but there isn't a whole lot of past success their either. If winning is his priority, there are better options.

The Rockets, without Yao for part of the series, pushed the Lakers to seven games. They've got a combination of young, up and coming guys and proven veterans that would be attractive teammates. Add a top 10 player (I'd consider a healthy Yao to fit that description) to the mix and it's immediately a legit contender.

Lebron doesn't need Yao to be visible in China. He also doesn't really need to be in NYC to get endorsements. He's one of the guys that transcends location. He makes enough from endorsements to offset the money from his NBA contract. IF, and it's a huge IF, he decided to sacrifice cash for a chance at a championship, why not Houston?

Again, most likely a pipe dream, but not totally impossible.

 

I totally agree with you... I did my own rough calculation and if we let TMAC Scola and Lowry go we would then have around 17-18 million with the estimated drop in cap space

3 million (8mil artest-5mil ariza) 7million (letting Scola wallk) 4 million (letting lowry walk) and then another 3-4 million cause his assumptions would have brought our total to 54 million with the expected cap to be around 57/58 million... Our lineup would look some what like

Ming/Anderson/Hayes
Bosh?/Landry/Hayes/
Ariza/Budinger
draft top 15/Battier
Brooks/Free agent veteran min

or we could go the joe johnson route? and draft a big man or a PG

 

i think we just gotta catch a break in the draft


I mean what rocket player even come close to Hakeem?

 

who we did not draft? since Hakeem

 

Jackson's contract was extended last season for way too many years.

I am open to idea if only the Rockets can also get Nash and then sign his former Sydney Kings teammate Matt Nielsen for next season

 

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Originally Posted by LongTimeFan
That's not necessarily the case anymore - his whole post was built around bringing Artest back starting at 8mil.. we got Ariza instead, starting at 5ish (IIRC). Also, it was assumed we'd have no one else on the roster and be penalized for a lack of 12 players, where as now we have Budinger, Taylor and possibly Pops.

I'd be interested to see him update the scenario, but perhaps after the trade deadline would be better so he doesn't have to keep updating.




I totally agree with you... I did my own rough calculation and if we let TMAC Scola and Lowry go we would then have around 17-18 million with the estimated drop in cap space

3 million (8mil artest-5mil ariza) 7million (letting Scola wallk) 4 million (letting lowry walk) and then another 3-4 million cause his assumptions would have brought our total to 54 million with the expected cap to be around 57/58 million... Our lineup would look some what like

Ming/Anderson/Hayes
Bosh?/Landry/Hayes/
Ariza/Budinger
draft top 15/Battier
Brooks/Free agent veteran min

or we could go the joe johnson route? and draft a big man or a PG

 

Not even close. Figure in Ariza is actually making less then Artest is annually and Cook and Barry and Pops comes off the books along with Scola and Lowry who the team can renounce. In all reality we have just a little more then 40 million coming off the books which does put us closer then what this link suggest.

 

Agree with everything except Scola. He is the most consistent player we have and getting him in the beginning for a steal and just letting him walk. I don't see Morey doing this.

 

I agree but if Bosh tells us he will sign for the 17-18 million I'd say its a no brainer...

 

So what would happen if we were to end up with a top 5 pick, or even top 3....how could we package that pick and use it to our advantage?

 

If we're getting someone worthwile, i can definitely see Morey doing it....that may be why they went after Dorsey and are still hoping he works out, and why they are pushing Landry so much now. If andry can replace Scola's contribution and Dorsey replaces landry, then problem solved. It seems more likely though that DA would replace Landry since Dorsey doesn't seem to be working out. Then we'd get a scrubb-ish back up center.

 

Jackson opted for free agency in 2010 and turned down the Hawks contract extension.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...s-down-extension-offer-from-the-atlanta-hawks