2016 NBA Off-Season Thread

[DJ Fieri]

Man, my fingers need a break....

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

You missed the point. Howard's $23M is equivalent to $15M under the old cap (which is 66% of this year's cap). Mozgov's $16M is $10.5M under the 70M cap. Similar with Noah. Those teams needed centers, but you're adding undue value to their signings due to the cap-induced increases in spending. Those max deals are a percentage of the cap, so they are inflated by 34% as well.

Okay.

I see your point.

Again: Turners deal still looks like shit.

 

[DJ Fieri]

Down the road a bit though, after being with the Sixers. You guys actually re-signed Wes, so you're not exactly immune to Laker castoffs.

Jordan Farmar.

He he he.

*Sees Mecca reach for Big Red in the night stand and runs like my ass is on fire*

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

You missed the point. Howard's $23M is equivalent to $15M under the old cap (which is 66% of this year's cap). Mozgov's $16M is $10.5M under the 70M cap. Similar with Noah. Those teams needed centers, but you're adding undue value to their signings due to the cap-induced increases in spending. Those max deals are a percentage of the cap, so they are inflated by 34% as well.

I get it, but based on Howards past issues and the lack of production recently from Noah/Mozgov, its still a nice chunk of change to throw at a player whose skill set isn't needed in the game any mores according to Wiggy.

The 3 max contracts are what they are, max contracts regardless of old or new and none of those 3 are known for perimeter D.

 

[shopson67]

Please.


Warriors, Clippers, Heat couldn't do more than re up their own guys.

The guy the Spurs wanted, Pau, is waiting on the Durant extension and the Celtics had money to burn.

None of the 5 Teams lost anything that they weren't going to lose anyway.

It's always better to have a chance at a top 3 guy than not.

None of them have a chance though. It's down to the Warriors and Thunder. The Lakers had no chance, so getting a meeting would've only served for them to hold cap space open for someone that wasn't coming. The Clippers spent 4 hours "impressing" Durant so much that he took them out of the running the next morning.

Durant isn't the only one either; Whiteside used the Mavs to get more money out of Miami. Parsons used a max deal in Portland to get the same out of Memphis (and ultimately lock up a 5 year max for Conley).

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

Man, my fingers need a break....

How about your wrist?

 

[DJ Fieri]

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[Mecca of the “B” Team]

Down the road a bit though, after being with the Sixers. You guys actually re-signed Wes, so you're not exactly immune to Laker castoffs.

Kaman, Swaggy, Odom, Barnes, Blake....Chris Paul....lol

Have been on both Teams.

We never gave Swaggy a contract extension.

One Season was enough.

 

[DJ Fieri]

How about your wrist?

Talking about being tHoop social media tagger this weekend.....

 

[shopson67]

Okay.

I see your point.

Again: Turners deal still looks like shit.

Agreed. That one surprised me.

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

As long as he's happy....

As long as it's not a 1 Team race to the Finals.

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

None of them have a chance though. It's down to the Warriors and Thunder. The Lakers had no chance, so getting a meeting would've only served for them to hold cap space open for someone that wasn't coming. The Clippers spent 4 hours "impressing" Durant so much that he took them out of the running the next morning.

Durant isn't the only one either; Whiteside used the Mavs to get more money out of Miami. Parsons used a max deal in Portland to get the same out of Memphis (and ultimately lock up a 5 year max for Conley).

Heat has a chance next year if he stays put, so it makes sense that Riley was going to try to get into his ear now to help him see it that way.

 

[DJ Fieri]

None of them have a chance though. It's down to the Warriors and Thunder. The Lakers had no chance, so getting a meeting would've only served for them to hold cap space open for someone that wasn't coming. The Clippers spent 4 hours "impressing" Durant so much that he took them out of the running the next morning.

Durant isn't the only one either; Whiteside used the Mavs to get more money out of Miami. Parsons used a max deal in Portland to get the same out of Memphis (and ultimately lock up a 5 year max for Conley).

Good point.

 

[shopson67]

Kaman, Swaggy, Odom, Barnes, Blake....Chris Paul....lol

Have been on both Teams.

We never gave Swaggy a contract extension.

One Season was enough.

Lakers needed that extension to keep the tank intact lol.

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

Jordan Farmar.

He he he.

*Sees Mecca reach for Big Red in the night stand and runs like my ass is on fire*

Didnt we have Sasha too?

 

[TurnUpTheHeat]

As long as it's not a 1 Team race to the Finals.

It's like that in the East every season now.

#maketheeasternconferencegreatagain

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

None of them have a chance though. It's down to the Warriors and Thunder. The Lakers had no chance, so getting a meeting would've only served for them to hold cap space open for someone that wasn't coming. The Clippers spent 4 hours "impressing" Durant so much that he took them out of the running the next morning.

Durant isn't the only one either; Whiteside used the Mavs to get more money out of Miami. Parsons used a max deal in Portland to get the same out of Memphis (and ultimately lock up a 5 year max for Conley).

Dude, you still have like 20 million in cap after burning tons of money on Deng and Mozgov.

So, not buying it.

Just like the Celtics added Horford, you would have had a chance to gauge how far away you were.

Again: The Clippers lost absolutely nothing by meeting with him.

The Heat were always going to have to pay the max.

They lost nothing by meeting with him.

 

[DJ Fieri]

Didnt we have Sasha too?

Vujacic?

 

[DJ Fieri]

Dude, you still have like 20 million in cap after burning tons of money on Deng and Mozgov.

So, not buying it.

Just like the Celtics added Horford, you would have had a chance to gauge how far away you were.

Again: The Clippers lost absolutely nothing by meeting with him.

The Heat were always going to have to pay the max.

They lost nothing by meeting with him.

25 million.

He he he.

 

[Mecca of the “B” Team]

It's like that in the East every season now.

#maketheeasternconferencegreatagain

Yeah.

I think it will be different next year.

If Durant signs a 1 and 1......

Gonna be a crazy summer with him, Paul, Curry, Blake on the market.

Everything could change very quickly.