LOL. Toronto offering Hedo $60 million?

Did you just use Twitter speak to write that out?

 

Neither. It sounds like Quick just made up a rumor about Toronto offering Hedo $60 million to get people mentioning his name, and then followed that up by breaking the news that Toronto isn't in the running for Turkoglu.

I thought that "rumor" was bogus from the start. Hedo at $60 million in Toronto makes absolutely no sense. Their roster has so many holes, adding an overpaid Hedo doesn't come close to making them contenders, and would severly hamper their rebuilding efforts when Bosh leaves next summer.

Quick's initials should be BS. Seems like he's trying to become Portland's version of Peter "Assflake" Vescey.

BNM

 

Nope. This would be twitter speak. RT @alex42083 Did you just use Twitter speak to write that out?

 

haha OK. I still don't get it.

 

too hard to explain.

I basically copied the tweet from InsideHoops. When you put the @ symbol infront of InsideHoops that is basically the source of the "tweet".

If you see your post, I have @alex42083 which means you were the source, the content that follows is what you wrote.

RT is "retweet", which is essentially like quoting you. What I put before "RT" is what my "tweet" is.

 

This might be a moot point depending on the mixed messages being put out about Toronto's interest in Hedo, but here's another wrinkle to think about if Toronto were actually commited to offering Hedo a 5 year 60 million dollar deal; once you factor in Ontario's total sales tax of 13% (provincial and Federal) and the slightly higher income tax rate in Canada, just how much difference would there be between the two deals? My hunch is that it narrows the gap considerably between the two offers supposedly out there.

If somebody is an expert in the Canadian tax code and wants to break it down it could be illuminating.

 

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Thanks. Damn, there's too much shit to keep track of around here sometimes

 

I think most NBA players don't qualify as permanent residents, as long as they spend a certain amount of time out of the country (away games + offseason). As a result, the tax difference isn't all that different from most US states. I'm not sure if that's the exact way they work it out, but I do know that Colangelo and the Raptors front office have always told incoming players that they can navigate around our higher tax rates. We were talking about it in the Raptors forum a while back (link).

Also, there's no way this rumour was ever legitimate. I can tell you confidently that the Raptors have planned to try and re-sign Marion for months now. There's no way they'd just throw that away on July 1st, abandon all their current free agents, and overpay Hedo. I think Colangelo's gotten in contact with Hedo's agent, as a backup plan if Marion goes elsewhere. But that's it.