oh well geez...Its gonna be awesome when Im right over a guy that has a site dedicated to this kind of stuff
Next try to find a site for a referee in the NBA and tell them the clock should not stop when a foul is called!
You were stoned pretty thoroughly by the fans here, definitely. And I imagine that they will continue to stone you for it, because it's fun.
He can and has signed players to keep title teams intact. Odom isn't likely to get $10M, that just isn't happening after years of him being overpaid for his worth, especially when he got his trade kicker dollars from the Heat trade. Odom is going to get under $10M/yr ($8M/yr in the most likely scenario), meaning there's no way they're spending $8M on Ariza, that's not his market value even in an overpriced market, and certainly not in this economic climate. The wildcard is some team offering him a $10M/yr deal stretching over 5 years. Very very questionable the Lakers match that, but matching may not be necessary as LO has continually maintained he'll take less to stay here (both due to loyalty but probably more the fact that he got paid so much for so little for years as a Laker). Knowing that, a team would really have to overpay Odom, like $12M/yr over 5. Just don't see any team thinking that's sane. Additionally, there is no reason to believe Buss' profit numbers are written in stone as you seem to be implying considering the numbers you're pulling vary widely and aren't well sourced; Buss is a private citizen, there's no way you can know his precise profit numbers with any certainty and Forbes routinely makes that clear in all their rankings. They don't know all about Buffet's holdings, for example, because some of that information is illegal to access. They can guesstimate to within 90% certainty maybe, but in the NBA, that last 10% matters and that is all it takes to sign Ariza and LO together. They'll certainly try, and they have a track record of succeeding.
