Two steps forward, one step back. Rehab is definitely not linear. Another month or so is what my PT tells me. Thanks for checking!
The irony that Olsheys views lined up with the same people that wanted him fired and also Dame traded
If you dislike him that much, why push his tweets as if you agree with him? Last year he was the worst, now he is your go-to news source.
harden took a 1 + 1 deal to bring in PJ Tucker. There was a concrete reason for Harden to take a discount. Not really the same scenario here because Dame was not presented with an option to take a discount to bring in another player. obscene numbers yes, but this will all get normalized in a few summers. 50-60 mil deals will become the norm.
what was the alternative? are we mentally ready to trade dame? don't think anyone in the org has the stomach for that.
Sounds like it's time for a new org. I love Dame, but we're doomed to mediocrity or worse at least through Dame's new deal with the way things are.
This is the right thing for the team and this is the right thing for Dame. If we believe that Dame is taking care of himself, he's not a big guy and his best skill is shooting so he should hold up at a high level through this contract. No he likely won't be an all nba team selection at 36 years old. So Dame gets paid and the team shows that when they have a superstar (for the first time) that wants to stay with the team for his whole career that they show their loyalty back. Dame is worth far more than this money. He disproportionately brings in far more money and attention than anyone else on this team and is only restrained to making this much by the max salary system and salary cap rules. He's worth far more than 25 times the amount that Didi is worth to the team. As a team we haven't played the game other teams have of pushing our roster salary far past the tax through bird rights and other exceptions that don't trigger the hard cap. So, if you think that 35% of the cap is 35% of what we pay our entire roster, then yeah Dame is hamstringing our team. If our team makes a financial commitment to press the team salary far beyond the tax then 35% of the cap isn't going to hurt our ability to have a lot of talent around him. That commitment isn't Dame's concern, he should assume that if ownership would commit this to him, they will also commit to pushing the team salary around him to a level where his salary won't be crippling. 43M is what 35% of the cap is today and that would be 23% of the Clippers' roster salary today. I think Dame is worth more than 23% of the team salary.
I think Dame has trade value today. I think teams constantly make decisions based on what a player can do for them right now and let the future of their contract play out later. If we put Dame on the market he would get big big offers.
