All the people that say: Kanter can learn to play defense. Why should he? He's been paid SEVENTEEN MILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR. If that doesn't tell him he's perfect the way he is, what would? Zach Randolph learned defense - out of necessity, because he had been traded twice for a sack of peanuts and was on the verge of bouncing out of the league. But Kanter asks to be traded and gets his way, then doesn't like how much his new team is prepared to pay him so goes to another and gets the max. If I was him I'd think I shat gold.
That's usually how restricted free agency works; you have to overpay to get a team to relinquish a player and their rights. But with the cap skyrocketing next year, it won't be awful. Batum might make 20 mill in a couple years. In-fucking-sane.
They offered him $15.5 million. There were rumors they'd grow a pair and just offer the max rather than wait. That'd have cost them more money because they can offer greater annual increases.
Z-Bo was not on the brink of being bounced from the league. That's the most ridiculous thing I heard all day. He'd have had to take a paycut, but he was going to find someone to CTC.
I read an article or two outta OKC earlier that said they'd talked to him about $15.5. $13.5 was all I'd seen to that point as well. Dunno if it's true, but I was scouring trying to figure out the likelihood of a match. It seems like a certainty.
By that logic, any time we sign a free agent, other teams who didn't offer him what we did obviously didn't think he was worth it. Clearly Aminu and Davis were bad signings because Dallas and LA didn't think they were worth it.
I don't care about individual awards this is a team game where titles mean everything. If not why would West give up 11 million to play with the Spurs.
