'15 NBA Draft/Offseason Thread

Individual players are capped at roughly $20M per year this year. (There is a max on individual player salary in the NBA, which is based on a player's experience level.) If the Knicks did that, they'd be laughed at, the Cavs would just offer LeBron the same deal, and they'd also piss off LeBron's agent, and other agents and players don't really care for that type of publicity play either.

 

So are you just oblivious to the existence of the cap rules? There's no amount the Knicks or anyone else can offer that the Cavs can't match.

 

lighten up Francis.

Just making light of the situation. LeBron's faux attempt to assert leverage, the Knicks desperation. But, is there such collusion in the NBA that nobody makes a run at LeBron? Or does he truly has no real option but to sign this year with the Cavs and then keep signing either a series of 1 year deals or a long one?

 

He can sign with whoever the fuck he wants - he's an unrestricted free agent. However, it significantly damages his image if he doesn't sign with the Cavs. Teams aren't going to waste their time on him unless he gives some indication he wants out.

 

Fondly recalling Popovich complaining when the Lakers got Gasol because it was unfair, and Dan Gilbert's other infamous letter when he whined about the Lakers getting Chris Paul (while giving up Pau and Odom). Talent acquisition is only bad when it helps Kobe.

Yes, bitter fanboi.

 

Yep. This one happened like clockwork. Give us the $250 million or the deer gets it.

Bucks' Feigin: If arena deal not approved, NBA will move team to 'Las Vegas or Seattle' - Milwaukee - Milwaukee Business Journal

 

You know, if cities just had the cops pull the owner over for a "routine traffic stop" and then said owner "was shot resisting arrest," there'd be fewer of these stadium/arena holdups. FedEx the bullet-riddled corpse to Adam Silver's office.

 

Arenas shouldn't be a hard sell for at least some public funding, you can fill those things 250 days a year, as opposed to football stadiums where you are lucky to get perhaps 30 dates a year.

 

Anybody following the DeAndre Jordan drama? This is so hilarious.

 

No. What drama? I thought he signed.

 

Ha! Just Googled. Not sure why I didn't know the signing period hadn't started yet. I guess because the local media here has been talking him up and discussing his impact on the Mavs for several days.

 

Wake me up when he signs for the Spurs