Nobody is really freaking out here, but you kinda seem to be in a mood. It's 6:30am and you're already killing my buzz for the day. All in all, Blazers fans seem pretty calm today, especially by their bipolar, suicidal standards.
My guess is that Neil found out Whiteside wanted to stay in Miami so he changed his plans and went to visit Parson's first instead.
Clearly. You're channeling your inner Will Ferrell. Old School. Telling everyone to calm down when nobody is otherwise panicking.
Whiteside is staying with the Heat. Batum is staying with Charlotte. DeRozan is staying with Toronto. Sounds like Durant is staying with OKC and I'm sure James is staying with the Cavs. There does seem to be a trend. EVERY FA IS SPURNING THE BLAZERS! !!!
You're kind of hyperboling here. No one is saying the sky is falling, just pointing out.....yet again, Portland not a big time FA destination. Parsons is a good player, but a role player, who is about to get 24 m per after two knee surgeries
Although, getting another SF/PF doesn't make as much sense without a massive defender on the team, at least to me it doesn't. I'm a little bit shell-shocked. I guess the fact that my hapless Cleveland Indians won 13 straight got me a little too optimistic.
Figured as much. I thought it was MIA with an outside shot for POR if he felt "unappreciated" by MIA.
Interesting that Whiteside sites stability as the reason he's staying in MIA. There's probably more uncertainty in MIA than just about everywhere else. Will Bosh be able to play again? Wade is threatening to leave because MIA won't pay him. What is the status of Joe Johnson and Amar'e Stoudemire? Luol Deng is also a free agent. All those guys are well past 30. Hell, even Goran Dragic, is 30 (I'm surprised he's that old). Does Whiteside think these guys are going to play forever? Other than Whiteside, here are the ages of every Heat player that started more than 8 games: Goran Dragic: 72 ganes started, age = 30.056 Gerald Green: 14 games started, age = 30.157 Luol Deng: 73 games started, age = 31.076 Chris Bosh: 53 games started, age = 32.099 Amar'e Stoudemire, 36 games started, age = 33.228 Dwyane Wade, 73 games started, age = 34.166 Joe Johnson, 24 games started, age = 35.002 If that isn't a roster that's ripe for some turnover, I don't know what is. So much for stability (and winning). Florida really is where old people in the East go to retire. At least half those players will probably be gone within the next couple weeks and not a single one will be around for the duration of Whiteside's contract. In terms of starters, MIA is older than SAS. At least they have Kawhi and Danny Green in their 20s. He got paid the max and that seems to be his motivation. MIA is overdue for a major rebuild, and it won't be pretty. Because, they play in the East, they can limp into the playoffs with an over-the-hill roster, but have zero chance to contend for a title and no lottery picks (for another year, or two) to help restock the cupboard. Whiteside chose losing over winning. As long as he's in MIA, they will probably never go as far in the playoffs as they did this past season. He signed to stay with a roster in rapid decline that will take years to rebuild. Oh well, as the geriatrics around him retire and move on, at least he will get to be "the man", albeit, on a crappy team. But, that is the lot he has chosen. He could have had equal money and played for a winner, but he chose not to. We were the youngest team to make the playoffs and already better than MIA. He chose to stay on a team in decline, rather than join a team on the rise. Fuck him. BNM
Yeah I'm guessing Neil didn't want to play the bargaining chip for whiteside so he focused his energy elsewhere.
