"Some two months since anointing the Denver Nuggets as the mid-July leaders in the Free Agent Frenzy of 2004, I've seen nothing that necessitates a rewrite. The Nuggets are still our biggest winners. Houston (Tracy McGrady, Dikembe Mutombo, Bob Sura), Utah (Carlos Boozer, Mehmet Okur,) and Miami (Shaquille O'Neal) had big summers, too. Detroit (Antonio McDyess) and San Antonio (Brent Barry) made their usual well-reasoned upgrades. Even Dallas rallied after a dreadful start, with what amounts to the risky swap of Steve Nash for Erick Dampier. Yet it's Kiki Vandeweghe, for me, who got the most done." Source: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/stor...marc&id=1880830
Whenever you make a move to get Kenyon Martin, you improve as a team. But I think the Heat were the biggest winners with Utah in a close third behind the Nuggets. Whenever you get Shaq you're already automattically a playoff team, and they got to keep Dwyane Wade. But I guess we'll have to wait until the playoffs start to see who had the biggfest impact.
You have to like what Utah did this offseason picking up Boozer and Okur to improve there big man situation. Denver did a great job picking up Martin but I think they shouldn't have gave up 3 1st round picks. The Nets definitely had the worst offseason, losing Kittles,Martin, and maybe Kidd will be on his way out. They are slowly falling apart.
The Nuggets are definitely in the top 3 most improved off-season teams, but I think that the heat are better, Drafting Dorell Wright, bringing in Shaq and there other changes as well. Nuggets got K-Mart for 3 fricken draft picks, that was probably the 2nd best move of the offseason the best has to be bringing in Shaquille O'neal.
What have the Nuggets done, if anyone can remind me? Getting Martin, losing Jon Barry, and signing Marcus Camby to a $60-million contract? Those moves might make them good now, but the huge salaries that Martin and Camby command will mean that one of them have to be moved in the next two seasons when Anthony and Nene are due for extensions. The moves this season might make them seem good for now, but the large contracts will cripple their salary cap in the long run.
^^what do you have to say about yao next year getting a contract extension next year and tracy mc grady in the near future, ???. dont look at it in that way look what they got done and anyways the rockets had a better team last year.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting petitt33:</div><div class="quote_post">You have to like what Utah did this offseason picking up Boozer and Okur to improve there big man situation. Denver did a great job picking up Martin but I think they shouldn't have gave up 3 1st round picks. The Nets definitely had the worst offseason, losing Kittles,Martin, and maybe Kidd will be on his way out. They are slowly falling apart.</div> I think three first round picks for Martin is well worth it. And the Nets aren't falling apart, they already did!
The Nuggets had the best offseason without a doubt in my mind,they improved the team a lot and didnt even lose any players,while the Heat made one move bringing in Shaq but I dont know if the Heat supporting cast is good enoough or deep enough to be a really strong team.
The rockets better? Last year? (WTF!?) Did you not watch any rocket games? rawr! it was frustrating man. Some games we just get bajaffled and lose by 30 points or so. I don't think we're better ....Steve and Cuttino sometimes brought lots of disappointment in games. The times where we actually hit most of our threes and score a whole lot of points and win by a margin bigger by 10 ....that was really really rare. The rockets last season were inconsistent.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Silky Smooth:</div><div class="quote_post">The Nuggets had the best offseason without a doubt in my mind,they improved the team a lot and didnt even lose any players.</div> Actually they lost Jon Barry, an underrated player IMO.
