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season cant come soon enough
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Three days til free agency officially opens up. Teams are lining up for LeBron, Melo, Bosh, trying to trade for Love and Rondo.....I'm just praying for Patty Mills 
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I am mentally prepared for another lockout. Brace yourselves now.
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cavs rumored to be interested in chandler parsons.
[house stark] lockout is coming [/house stark]
[house stark] lockout is coming [/house stark]
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They need to just do away with the cap all together and let them pay all 11-15 guys 20mil a piece if they want.
Problem solved. Everybody's happy
And don't give me that it will make the league unbalanced talk.
Problem solved. Everybody's happy
And don't give me that it will make the league unbalanced talk.
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this is so unbelievably stupid. getting rid of the cap
if anything, you raise the cap a little, and get rid of "max contracts"
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by the way, are people really actually upset that the heat players are taking less to make an even better "super team"?
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No, you know what's upsetting though? That nobody talks about anything but the Heat. You would think this was the Miami Heat thread.
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I know I will be called crazy, but TBH IMO Pat Riley as the Heat executive is VASTLY overrated. Honestly what has he really done. Since him coming to the Heat in 1995, he has only drafted one All-Star, Dwayne Wade. However, I will give him for signing Alonzo Mouring & trading for Shaq, but that's it. In his 11 seasons as the Heat coach, he either missed the playoffs or lost in the first found 8 of those 11 seasons. The one ring he won with the Heat, he won with Stan Van Gundy's team (He pulled a Jon Gruden-Tony Dungy championship, DON"T AGRUE WITH ME
). And as far as recuiting free agents, he didn't get LeBron & Bosh, Wade did. Any sane GM can have a fire sale and make cap room for those two players. Also why isn't anyone talking about the many years he failed to put pieces around Zo and Wade, on their teams, when they were alone and struggling and in their prime?
I know this may be an unpopular opinion but Pat Riley, the Lakers and Knicks legend, isn't exactly a legend with the Heat..... He's getting that Joe Pa treatment, and sticking around because his name
I know this may be an unpopular opinion but Pat Riley, the Lakers and Knicks legend, isn't exactly a legend with the Heat..... He's getting that Joe Pa treatment, and sticking around because his name
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what they do in free agency affects the entire NBA. just gotta deal with it
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i suppose but i think everyone should just assume they are keeping the Heatles together and move on
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those guys can take all the paycut they want, unless they all drop down to 10M or something like that, they wont have enough money to fill all them needs. only people they will attract are your ray allens, shane battiers, end of their career chasing ring type players. melo or any "star" taking a significant in their best yrs, i just dont see it at all
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Dudes got the league hostage now
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I have no idea, but I know they need a decent pg cuz bev is a back up
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rondo isn't a good fit with the rockets. i'm ok with not getting up, and upgrading other positions
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In other NBA news....
Afflalo thinks the nuggets can make a run for a title.
Bellineli got a championship tattoo.
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I get you're NT's hyperbole no medium guy, but you have to use some common sense to the comparison I was making. You know good and well the only people taking a mil are niche guys signing to contenders. Money is a factor, but what exactly is the difference between 22-18 mil? Guys do want to help their team out while getting the most they feel they can. So if Lebron isn't exactly the max while helping the team, I'm sure 20.8 or whatever isn't anything to scoff at.
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It's not a big deal at all. Everyone was just tellin me during the Finals that taking lesser deals wouldn't become a trend.
Whoops.
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And you said nothing of this sort in your OG post. All you brought up is how money isn't a factor to guys who are already rich vs how tibia to guys who aren't.
If you say money doesn't matter, it only makes sense to assume you meant money doesn't matter
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if this is what players want to do then don't complain when the owners feel like they are overpaid and ram them again. i'm sure the players union hates the heat doing this.
on another note the spurs got one day of media coverage. it's like the chip happened 7 months ago or something
the excuse was ohhh but it's the world cup. no time to talk about basketball. guess that was BS
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can someone in depth explain the specifics of bird rights?
are there limits to how far over the cap you can go?
are there limits to how far over the cap you can go?
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Its always been like that with the spurs they're aren't overly interesting especially with the draft and free agency looming. I'm sure ESPN will beat us over the head about how underrated they are, Pop, team basketball throughout the season
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It's not a big deal at all. Everyone was just tellin me during the Finals that taking lesser deals wouldn't become a trend.
Whoops.
Taking lesser or smaller deals will become the norm as franchises and players alike all start to feel the effect of the salary cap. It'll basically put a broad price tag all across the board for your top/mid/low talent guys.
If your saying that most superstars will start taking less.....I still don't see it. As soon as most of these guys finish their rookie deals they will all almost sign max deals. All stars will too. Only those who've been in the league for 5+ years without any hardware and max deals behind them will start taking less to form these "super teams"
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