But they were giving up Scola so salary wise him and Hedo is a wash. Yeah Scola can play a little bit but he's locked in for I think 3 years. Kevin Martin...nice player but you don't want to keep him around if you're trying to rebuild and he's off the books end of the year so his trade value isn't that high. Picks are such a question mark, other than the Raptors pick what else do they have? The Nets offer wasn't better but it wasn't that much worse. If the offer really blew them away they'd have traded him. Nobody wants to give up that much for a rental.
they are two of the worst low post defenders in the league and neither of them plays above the rim ... aside from the fact that hump is a good rebounder (which theyre getting with reggie evans anyway) and brook is an avg rebounder, they dont compliment each other well at all i think he's referring to trading for jj, which if he is they still didnt overplay their hand ... dwight had an opp to be a FA and he fucked up. they nets cant wait around on him forever
Nets can still trade for Dwight come january, for less than they previously offered. Or next year in a sign and trade (to whoever rents him) I still bet he ends up a Net Only way nets get fucked is if Lopez gets hurt and is untradeable
At least Hump will stay out of his way on offense. Hump is ok on defense, decent help/weak side defender You can't keep star chasing, you lose so much time. I commend the Knicks for taking on Stoudemire, even though what's happening with him breaking down a bit was predictable. Instead of just waiting around for LeBron they jumped on him and put together a decent squad til they got 'Melo.
Well they have Patterson who I think is a good young player. And if you trade Dwight to BK you are getting late first rounders. From TOR you are definitely getting a lottery pick. There is a big difference in the NBA. Houston was willing to give it up for a rental, but ORL hasn't pulled the trigger. Like I said the deals were equal at best, nothing amazing. If ATL walked in and said Horford, Teague, and picks I think that's the best deal, even over a Bynum centered deal. Yeah this story is not over. Okay, thanks didn't know that. Who would be the defender in the post on the team if Lopez and Humphries aren't too good at it? Knicks were in a different position though. If Dwight opted out and the Nets missed on him then I agree, but the Knicks were in FA to make those decisions so less struggle getting a guy. You saw them mess around with Denver for a while and then finally gave in by giving Mozgov. (I was dumb thinking the Knicks overpaid to get Melo by sending Mozgov over :breakdance Also, there is no way the Nets can sign him outright as a FA? If they tried, he would be massively underpaid I'm guessing?
^They can't sign him outright as a FA due to having no salary cap space... That Lopez contract sucks...It looks like Humphries will be overpaid too...Why would the Magic want that garbage in a mid season trade? The Magic better maximize their return by trading Howard to the Rockets ASAP.
Or if Howard becomes a Laker and I'm still willing to bet he would sign with them regardless of what he says.
Fortunately this tidbit just came out Basically theres the huge risk with Bynums Knees + the risk he wont resign. So if he goes to Houston im confident hes walking after. Where presumably they would sign and trade him to the Nets. Either that or the Nets get him sometime January. Though if theyre doing well (which id imagine they should with their starting 5) that theyd be reluctant to fuck up their playoff run.
I don't think it will be because of that... They can get someone comparable at a cheaper price... Adrian Wojnarowski @WojYahooNBA Kris Humphries future in Brooklyn unclear. Besides Antawn Jamison, Nets considering FA's Kenyon Martin, Craig Smith, sources tell Y! Sports.
Yep. Why overpay for Hump when this guy is good enough? Teletovic (6-9, 242), spent the 2011-12 season with Caja Laboral Vitoria of the Spanish ACB League. In 34 games, he averaged 16.3 points and 6.9 rebounds in 31.1 minutes. In 10 Eurocup games with Caja Laboral Vitoria, he averaged 21.7 points, 6.0 rebounds, and 1.0 block.
I made the post about Bynum and also being injury prone so this doesn't surprise me. If he is gonna go someplace I wouldn't mind Houston or Atlanta because I don't think he resigns with them and a sign and trade is very possible at that time.
I don't know about you fellows, but all this Dwight Howard stuff is Charlie Brown teacher noise to me now. I'm done with it. There should be no more than 12 teams in the NBA. Turn back the clock to the 1960s. No superstars want to play in Cleveland, Toronto, Minnesota, Atlanta, Houston, Sacramento, 18 other cities, etc. Everyone wants to play for NY, LA, Miami, Boston or Chicago. Fuck everywhere else. Once Durant and Westbrook are done with OKC (in a dozen years maybe), nobody will want to play there anymore either. This sucks. I'll stick with the NFL and MLB and leave the NBA in 3rd place. The NFL is the living room, MLB is the den, and the NBA is the slop room adjacent to the garage. The NHL is in the compost heap in the corner of the backyard.
They should eliminate some teams, start with Sacramento (who have dogshit owners) , Minnesota, Milwaukee, and Charlotte
As far as the specific issue I have, MLB is much better. Andrew McCutchen is signed with Pittsburgh for a while, Joe Mauer signed a long term deal with his hometown team (but Dwight Howard sign with Atlanta? Hell no), Kansas City has signed Salvador Perez to a multi-year deal, Joey Votto is signed till 2020 or so in small market Cincinnati, etc. We are not seeing baseball players forcing their way to one of a half dozen franchises.
No theyre not forcing their way, but its ending up that way with a handful of teams being stacked with all the talent You take a list of elite players and most of them are on NY, Boston, Philly. Seriously how many baseball seasons have started with hype about one of those 3 teams being an "unstoppable dream team" before it starts. When Boston got Crawford Gonzo people were nuts for them. When Philly got Halladay Lee and Hamels in their rotation same shit. Players flock to the big cities with the big money The NBA is the exact same way. The biggest difference though is in the MLB you always have nobodies coming out of nowhere and being complete difference makers (ie RA Dickey). But the distributions of superstars is basically the same as it is in the nba.
