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

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  1. BBert

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    Re: Official 2013 Free Agency thread

    Their agents?
     
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    Re: 2013 Official NBA Off-season Movement & Rumors

    Houston needs cap room for Howard...
     
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    Re: 2013 Official NBA Off-season Movement & Rumors

    Considering all the $$ out their for free agents, and the recognition there is too much $$ chasing too few of them, perhaps our cap space is better used in trade, either to free up cap space for a team with a real shot at Howard (i.e. Houston, Clips), or acquire a player from a team that wants to soft tank next year, and has to trade a 'needle mover' to do it? I wonder what teams would be in that position that have a PF or Center we could steal?
     
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    Re: 2013 Official NBA Off-season Movement & Rumors

    keep in mind that while there is a lot of capspace out there not all teams are gong to go crazy because they are in rebuild modes that may take 2-3 years and some of those teams have there sights on next years draft and won't want to improve too much. Also a team like the Cavs are leaving most of there room fro lebron next yr - just in case. And with the new CBA lux tax penalties teams IMO are going to be a lot more cautious - especially regarding everyone but the top tier players, we'll soon find out if my opinion on this is correct
     
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    No team would trade a promising player for nothing. Tank or not. At the very least, they would get first round picks back.
     
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    Re: 2013 Official NBA Off-season Movement & Rumors

    That's the biggest thing. THere's lots of money available, but a lot of teams are in different spots. And even some in a similar position, are looking at different positions. There's a handful of teams, N.O., Detroit, etc. looking at Iggy. We very likely are not. There's very likely teams going to spend their money on Jennings, Mayo, Jack, Reddick, Evans, Martin, Teague, Kirilenko, Josh Smtih, etc. A good chunk of players will eat into space we're not interested in anyways.
     
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    Re: 2013 Official NBA Off-season Movement & Rumors

    The only guard we need is a POINT GUARD. I hope we end up with Shaun Livingston for a bargain price.
     
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    Post #999!
     
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    Re: 2013 Official NBA Off-season Movement & Rumors

    Doesn't sound like Olshey even wants to get a backup PG at this time. He has hinted that CJ will cover it. I hope that changes though. I would be fine with Livingston but we are going to only pay the vet minimum for one.
     
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    Back in the day, I lived in Sactown. In the 90s, the Kings were the worst team in basketball. Finally, they brought in Geoff Petrie, and in the summer of 1995 I think it was, he

    Traded for Chris Webber - Then thought to be a malcontent, and who said he wouldn't report to the Kings
    Signed Vlade Divacs as a FA
    Drafted Jason Williams - White Chocolate - Also thought to be a risky move.

    They all panned out and it was a great team to watch.

    Point being, I think Olshey is in somewhat of a similar position to Petrie. We have nothing to show for Oden and Roy (no assets gained, as they say) and so we are almost starting from scratch.

    Maybe its time for riskier moves that would not be taken under normal circumstances.

    (Post #1,000 - only took 5 years!)
     
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    Re: 2013 Official NBA Off-season Movement & Rumors

    Here's my answer:

    Jeff McDonald @JMcDonald_SAEN about 5 minutes ago
    Spurs have submitted qualifying offers for both Tiago Splitter and Gary Neal, making both restricted free agents.


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    There's some dispute over how much Petrie was responsible for the Drexler-Porter-Kersey-Duckworth-Williams Blazers, but they too were an awesome team. And then he went South. Maybe another team should hire him for 3 years then quickly dump him before he goes off.
     
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    Re: 2013 Official NBA Off-season Movement & Rumors

    That could be painful. I dunno that Aldridge will like playing with no pure PGs. That said, it doesn't have to be the PG feeding the post - Rudy and Camby were excellent Aldridge-feeders in the past.
     
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    I would like to keep Maynor if he can be had for cheap.
     
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    HOU waived Brooks and Delfino. I'd love to pick up AB on the cheap
     
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    HOU waived Brooks and Delfino. I'd love to pick up AB on the cheap at the end of our FA period.
     
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    http://www.storytellerscontracts.info/resources/Houston.htm

    That saved them 5.5 MIL minus whatever part was partially guaranteed for each player.

    They still want to trade T-Rob. How much space do they need for Dwight? I thought they were close already. Makes me think they want someone to go with Dwight.
     
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    No thanks. We have a ton of guards, but if we get another one it should be
    (a) an ACTUAL PG (not a scoring guard),
    (b) a good defender
    (c) tall
     
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    What about going after Matt Barnes as a backup SF? A guy you hate to play against but would love to have on your team.
     
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