2013 Official NBA Off-season Movement & Rumors (Merged threads)

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Fuck you, Mags!

Jk, welcome back.

 

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A Batum/Cousins deal would have to include Thornton to work under the cap.

So the Blazers would have to include the pick at a minimum.

 

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After the honeymoon with his hot young wife, he's probably not interested, Fez.

Besides, he's probably out of the little blue pills.

 

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Read a rumor that the Clippers are going to pursue David West. I don't understand how Clippers are a team in the running to pick up pricey FA's this summer with their salary cap situation.

Billups probably on the market . . .

 

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Another PF?

 

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Just a rumor, but here it is:

David West will be a hot commodity despite his advancing age. The Clippers are prepared to make him an offer, and according to a source, the Hawks could make him a priority, too. Should Memphis move Zach Randolph, West would be a natural fit there as well. Sporting News

 

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Yeah that makes no sense. The clippers have other needs, PF and PG are the least of them. The other three are.

 

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It's still the Clippers as long as Sterling is running the team. I don't see them ever winning crap.

 

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Just read an article bashing on the Clipper organization:

The decision not to extend a contract to Vinny Del Negro was an organizational decision from the top down,” Clippers vice president of basketball operations Gary Sacks said. “Our front office evaluated the season and Vinny’s three years here before making this move, and our conclusion and feeling was that we needed a change.”

“Our goal is to compete for a championship and I felt that in order for us to keep improving, we needed to make this move to help us achieve that goal,” Sacks said. “With the talent we have on our roster, it’s not our goal just to make the playoffs. It’s our goal to compete for a championship, and we need to find the right person who can lead us there.”

All of that might be true, and Del Negro wasn’t without his flaws. But if the team truly was concerned about how Paul would be perceived throughout this process, they would have said these things from the very beginning, and repeated them on a loop to any and all media outlets willing to listen.

By jumping in after the fact like this, the organization is coming from a position of weakness. Those in charge are letting it be known that they will do whatever is necessary to placate Paul to make sure he’ll re-sign with the Clippers in free agency.

That’s not the wrong thing to do, but this is the wrong way to go about it. Paul should take the way the Clippers have handled this whole thing as a sign that they still aren’t ready to compete at the level of of the elite, and look elsewhere for where he’ll spend his future.

He won’t, of course, because the Los Angeles market is too great of a place to play, and because he can get a max contract from the Clippers while playing for a team that’s relatively stocked with talent. But the organization groveling at Paul’s feet and responding to his every reported whim publicly is not the way to build a long-term, two-way relationship full of mutual respect with its cornerstone superstar.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports....ond-publicly-to-appease-the-angry-chris-paul/

 

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Marc Stein: Hearing early projections given to GMs and owners in May have NBA salary cap rising to just $58.5 mil next season. This season: $58.044 mil

Some GMs were thinking it would be raised to 60+ mil. Smaller MLEs for those over the cap. less cap space than anticipated . . . things are getting tough for the GMs who don't have a spending limit.

 

Hahaha thanks man!

 

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The Cavs do have a high interest in Minnesota power forward Kevin Love, an All-Star before being sidelined by a hand injury this past season. However, the Timberwolves have made it clear that Love is unavailable. The Cavs have tried, sources said, but won’t get anywhere.

With Love off the market, the Cavs are expected to make a play for Wolves center Nikola Pekovic, a restricted free agent. That’s no surprise -- as Pekovic is exactly the type of pick-setting, rebounding and scoring inside presence the Cavs could use.

Looks like Wolves won't consider some kind of trade of Love for the #1 pick. Don't know if it is good or bad we are following suit with Wolves management.

 

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Who is running things in their front office with Kahn gone? Wasn't there also word of RA leaving?

 

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Flip Saunders, their President of basketball Operations

 

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A.J. Matthews, the 7-foot center out of Division III Farmingdale State on Long Island, is fast becoming the underdog story of the NBA Draft. He will be heading up to Westchester to work out for the Knicks next week, according to a league source. Matthews, the Brooklyn product who was not even invited to the Chicago pre-draft camp, impressed at the combine hosted at Nets headquarters in New Jersey last week. According to a source, Matthews has lined up about a half-dozen team workouts as clubs are intrigued by his 7-foot-3 wingspan and gaudy numbers. Matthews averaged 22.4 points, 16.3 rebounds and 3.75 blocks his senior year. The Knicks are in dire need of a rebounder and he has caught the eye of assistant general manager Allan Houston. Though the Knicks don’t have a second-round pick, they are expected to purchase one.

 

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Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA 3m
Y! Sources: The Clippers talks with top coaching candidate Jeff Van Gundy have become dormant. http://tinyurl.com/lpxqcln

 

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Because he's not black. CP3 would not be happy.

 

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Is he racist?

 

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The rumors last week were that cp3 wants a black coach.

Adding to his douchery.

 

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Per ESPN:

Teams were hoping the 2013-14 salary cap would have a nice bump up from the 2012-13 number of $58,044,000, but that apparently is not going to happen.

According to ESPN.com's Marc Stein, the NBA has informed all the teams that projections have the 2013-14 salary cap rising slightly to around $58,500,000. That is a disappointment as most thought it would come in at least around the $60,000,000 mark.

That low number will affect the Dallas Mavericks and Houston Rockets the most as they need all the room they can get to make a legit offer to Dwight Howard. A lower cap will also hurt the Portland Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns and Orlando Magic.

The Atlanta Hawks, Detroit Pistons, Cleveland Cavaliers, Utah Jazz and Milwaukee Bucks have the most money available under the 2013-14 salary cap and this is a hit, but not as much as it is to the other teams.