Good international city to live in. New rich ownership group. Moving to SF in a few years. It would probably be a nice lifestyle for him. Him and Steph Curry would be a nice little group to build with. Deal Harrison Barnes, Thompson and Lee to the Mavs.....
Steph Curry and Dirk is a 20-win team, but I do get your point about SF, and it is my favorite US city by far to visit. I'm headed to my 3rd favorite next week for work. Heading to The Windy. Gonna get some good eats. Staying right by Grant Park at the Hyatt, next weekend is the Taste of Chicago in the park, and I'm staying through the weekend because my brother coincidentally is there for work as well. Grant Park Friday, Wrigley Saturday afternoon, steaks for dinner, clubs that night, and an 8am flight back to PDX Sunday.
I'm with you. SF is my favorite city to visit (why I go 3 times/year). Chicago is another favorite. The Hyatt by Grant Park is a great place to stay. Always hit up Giordano's for good deep dish pizza, Gibson's for steak.
well, obviously its just the first step in several. I almost did the Taste of chicago this year, let me know how it is....I've always wanted to hit that up. My aunt had a condo there in those high rises right by the little bean thing. Chicago and SF are awesome places.
Lou Malnatis..had that when I was in Chiacago, was thinking of that pie for a week after. Drinking/partying there is awesome. Old town is fun. so many women out there. love it.
To tie it back on-topic, I think Dirk would enjoy Chicago too, as I posted earlier. That's why I posted about Chicago next week, because it had already been brought up. I'll let you know about the Taste. Carry on...
Is this only about where Dirk wants to play though? Boozer and a bunch of late 1sts is an awful return on Dirk. As mentioned, GS could give Klay and Barnes plus some other lower level prospects and still have a Curry/Dirk/Bogut core. Denver has Lawson, McGee, Faried, Galinari, and Fournier to play with. Cleveland could make a package beginning with Tristan Thompson and keep Kyrie/Dirk and maybe even Waiters (could also throw Zeller in). Even Boston could probably field a more attractive offer than Chicago.
Jerryd Bayless, anyone: http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/47312/raptors-make-bayless-unrestricted-free-agent
Did any of you watch Bayless last year? He has improved from when we had him as most young players do.
i have no doubt he improved but I hated his attitude when here and I seriously doubt he has changed his playing style, just found a team that allowed him to play to his strengths a little more.
I think we still need a backup PG and I think there is a player still on the market who can be both PG and spark in the mold of JJ Barea: DJ Augustin PG: Lillard | Augustin SG: Matthews | Barton/Williams SF: Batum | Claver PF: Aldridge | Freeland C: Hibbert | Leonard Nicely balanced IMO. Though, I still hope they get an upgrade at SG sooner rather than later. Or think outside the box and play Batum there.
No doubt that at this point if Lillard got hurt, it would go from bad to worse in a hurry. But I am sure they know this and have a plan. At least it seems like they have had a plan as of late.
DJ Augustin is an interesting option.. How much will he command as a free agent? I think we end up using our cap room on Freeland and Claver while we wait to see if we keep Hibbert. If we don't get Hibbert we probably look to claim Brand or Kaman with Hibberts money. The Plan B starting center along with Batum's larger salary slot will use up our cap space. Then we would probably have the $2.5mil room exemption to go after the best backup PG still available.
Marc Stein @ESPNSteinLine I'm told New Orleans Hornets will acquire Ryan Anderson via sign-and-trade deal with Orlando. Deal is on verge of completion today
