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[mmg]

Originally Posted by trey ohh five

Nets fans are bugging, this isn't European soccer, you can't have a roster full of players on max contacts. Even if you guys did manage to land Dwight, where is the space for a bench? You guys can't compete with a bench full of D-Leaguers.

Water is wet

 

[pmatic]

Raptors signing Landry Fields to prevent the Knicks from signing and trading him to the Suns for Steve Nash.

 

[japanair21]

3/20? Barf.

 

[diew its james]

Originally Posted by JapanAir21

3/20? Barf.

wow...so was there really a lockout? or just an extended summer vacation...

 

[pauliepeppas]

Originally Posted by JapanAir21

3/20? Barf.

Wowww [emoji]128563[/emoji]......bye bye landry thank god

 

[harlemtothebronx]

RT @ESPNSteinLine: Sources say that the three-year deal offer sheet to Fields, with the Year 3 jump a la Omer Asik, approaches $20 million

 

[hankmoody]

I just can't see the Magic accepting that offer without another a team(s)in the mix.

This is just me thinking outlandishly out loud:


Lakers- get Humphries and Lopez
Rockets- Gasol + Turk's bad contract
Magic-some of Rockets young assets, Lowry, Nets picks, Marshon Brooks, Lakers picks... Just a whole big bag of stuff
Nets- Dwight


I just had to throw it into the ether. I haven't checked salaries. I haven't checked jack ##%#. This is crazy.

 

[finallyfamous]

Lmao

 

[harlemtothebronx]

Thank you, Raptors.

 

[rawsheed]

@ this market

Thought the whole point of this new CBA was to limit outlandish contracts.

Asik, Fields, Gragic 

 

[mmg]

OKB is jumping out a window as we speak

 

[Peep Game]

Originally Posted by HankMoody

I just can't see the Magic accepting that offer without another a team(s)in the mix.

This is just me thinking outlandishly out loud:


Lakers- get Humphries and Lopez
Rockets- Gasol + Turk's bad contract
Magic-some of Rockets young assets, Lowry, Nets picks, Marshon Brooks, Lakers picks... Just a whole big bag of stuff
Nets- Dwight


I just had to throw it into the ether. I haven't checked salaries. I haven't checked jack ##%#. This is crazy.

Of course we'd get the garbage

 

[essential1]

Magic pursuing deal centered around Bynum.

Lakers have to take it. Even if Dwight walks. Just because they have no assets to improve their bench enough to get past OKC. And this move changes the dynamic.

They have 1 year to suffer after then hit the full reset button.

Assuming they keep Hedo & Metta through 2013-2014. Along with Kobe & Pau deals expiring after 2013-2014. Those 4 players alone are $69.665million coming off the books in one year.

It is a huge risk parting with Bynum for Howard, who will walk. But it allows the Lakers to change things quickly if it all goes South.

 

[elpablo21]

Ken Berger

 

[hankmoody]

Eh. Landry fields alright his rookie year. He didn't mesh well with Melo, like 98% of the league.

 

[senorroboto2k5]

Fields' offer sheet was a cockblock in NY's hopes to sign-and-trade for Nash.

If the Knicks match it, they can't trade Fields by rule. If they don't match it, they don't have him period. They overpaid Fields to knock out NY from the Nash sweepstakes

 

[ill steelo]

Wow. Toronto will stop at nothing to bring in Nash.

@ paying Fields 10 mil in one season

 

[harlemtothebronx]

RT @AlexKennedyNBA: It sounds like Landry Fields' new deal would pay him $5 million in year one, $5.2 million in year two and $9.8 in year three. Poison pill.

 

[university of nike]

Originally Posted by HankMoody

Eh. Landry fields alright his rookie year. He didn't mesh well with Melo, like 98% of the league.

Exactly.

 

[pauliepeppas]

Originally Posted by HankMoody

Eh. Landry fields alright his rookie year. He didn't mesh well with Melo, like 98% of the league.

Yea, clearly melos fault fields shot 25 % from three and 55 from the line.....not to mention his three attempts were normally wideeeee open due to melo being double teamed

 

[ballinsam23]

Landry gonna get moved back into his original SF position. He'll be fine with that team, now that they're most likely getting Nash too

 

[Spectacular23]

Damn lin is gonna be mad his boy left, whos couch hes gonna crash now.

 

[jhova718]

if landry got 3/20 what is lin going to want?

 

[Peep Game]

They're sticking it to the Knicks

 

[hankmoody]

I don't understand why people are against these backloaded deals. This is a great loophole exploitation by the Rockets and Raptors. If it works, the player is had for a bargain since the cap number is a third of the total contract. If it doesn't, the 10M expiring contract is a great trade piece because there are always teams looking to shed dollars, even moreso in the forthcoming progressive luxury tax era. It's a win-win for the Rockets and Raptors.

Daryl Morey figured it out. Others will engage in the sincerest form of flattery. Edit: Knicks won't match. No way.