<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Moore has met with Chicago officials and has received interest from Memphis. He'd like a mid-level exception deal, worth around $6 million per. The Nets almost certainly would not pay that - sources said they offered three years at around $10 million and were rejected.</div> Source
WTF? Moore is getting more self-fish then he has ever been. I thought he liked played with Jason Kidd?
He is probably thinking he is gonna have to play behind Kristic, which he thinks is not right. He can get offers else where, but to play with Kidd, Carter and Jefferson, is a Honor, and I don't know what he is thinking. Kidd made him, and so did Carter. He was D league material before the Nets took him. I guess this is just the business of the NBA. Can't blame him, he most know he can get more money else where. Well, his career.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Moore is getting more self-fish then he has ever been.</div> Not really, this has been the first time that Mikki's been worth something. He's just trying to finally cash in, and take the best offer he can get. The Nets are starting small, but they aren't planning to overpay him either. I think 15mil over 3 years, is a reasonable price. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">He is probably thinking he is gonna have to play behind Kristic, which he thinks is not right.</div> Completely wrong. He isn't going to be starting for any team, but perhaps the Nets. Like I said, he just looking for the most money.
<div class="quote_poster">Master Shake Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">He is probably thinking he is gonna have to play behind Kristic, which he thinks is not right. He can get offers else where, but to play with Kidd, Carter and Jefferson, is a Honor, and I don't know what he is thinking. Kidd made him, and so did Carter. He was D league material before the Nets took him. I guess this is just the business of the NBA. Can't blame him, he most know he can get more money else where. Well, his career.</div> Well I don't know if players think of it like that, but if he goes to Chicago, he get's a chance to go to an arguably better team and still contribute.
<div class="quote_poster">Legacy Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">WTF? Moore is getting more self-fish then he has ever been. I thought he liked played with Jason Kidd?</div> Quite the opposite. Guy has bounced around the league, in and out, and had to buyout his own contract at one point.... Being offered 10 million when you're being offered 3 or more times that...you really would take less?
<div class="quote_poster">Kidd Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Completely wrong. He isn't going to be starting for any team, but perhaps the Nets. Like I said, he just looking for the most money.</div> Actually, if he goes to the Grizzlies, he'd probably earn a spot in their starting rotation. They have more cap room than any team outside of Charlotte, and they need another bigman to play alongside Gasol, at either the four or five spot, because Gasol's versatile enough to play either. I guess the only real hang-up is whether the Grizzlies target Moore, Milic, or Varejao. Apparently they've offered Varejao a five year contract worth $41 million, but he'd like to stick around with the Cavs, so if they give him the full mid-level exception, then he's likely staying in Cleveland. Then after Varejao, Milicic is probably their biggest target. If neither one signs with Memphis though, I'm expecting Moore to be the Grizzlies' starting center next season.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"Mikki made it clear he wants to be with the Nets, but (after the initial negotiation) they said they're looking at other things," Bartelstein said. "We had told the Nets that Mikki had a couple of visits, and that he wanted the opportunity to hear what teams had to say, and the Nets said they're basically moving on and will try something else. "I just want the fans in New Jersey to know it's not true Mikki is demanding a certain amount of money. That's not the case. He just wanted a chance to finish some meetings, that's it. We're not demanding it has to be X amount."</div> Source
Mikki is a fluke he won't play as good for any other team without Kidd, Jefferson and Carter opening opportunities for him.
<div class="quote_poster">AirJordan Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Mikki is a fluke he won't play as good for any other team without Kidd, Jefferson and Carter opening opportunities for him.</div> I can understand the logic in saying that playing alongside Jason Kidd makes him look better, but why would playing alongside Jefferson and Carter matter? That just seems completely irrelevant. If anything, they're going to take touches away from Moore. (Completely off-topic, but if anyone ever plays NBA Live '05, they should sign Mikki Moore. The game's flawed to where if you bring in any long, tall player like Moore or Tyson Chandler, you can dominate with them in the paint despite their low skill ratings, just because of how tall and long they are.)
Actually Carter probably helped Mikki as much or maybe more than Kidd. Him and Carter ran a lot of pick and roll together, and when the defense focused on Carter he was able to get the ball to Mikki for jumpshots which Mikki hit a huge percentage of. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">(Completely off-topic, but if anyone ever plays NBA Live '05, they should sign Mikki Moore. The game's flawed to where if you bring in any long, tall player like Moore or Tyson Chandler, you can dominate with them in the paint despite their low skill ratings, just because of how tall and long they are.)</div> Hahaha, so true, and if like Chandler they can block shots too, they're sick, dominating on both ends, funny game.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Actually Carter probably helped Mikki as much or maybe more than Kidd. Him and Carter ran a lot of pick and roll together, and when the defense focused on Carter he was able to get the ball to Mikki for jumpshots which Mikki hit a huge percentage of.</div> Well, I can understand how Carter gave him opportunities, but I just don't think those are opportunities that will disappear if he decides to go elsewhere. He's going to get that with any wing. If he went down in Memphis, for example, he'd have the same sort of relationship with Mike Miller. <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Hahaha, so true, and if like Chandler they can block shots too, they're sick, dominating on both ends, funny game.</div> It's also crazy how useless guys like Shane Battier and Bruce Bowen are in that game. On defense, all you can do is double team, constantly get up in your defender's face pressing the steal button, or just hang around the post with a guy like Moore/Chandler waiting to swat whatever comes inside. Organized defenses are just ineffective in NBA Live.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">And when Moore finally gets around to determining how much he can get in the open market, the Nets may have already moved on. In one sense, they already have. "We made an offer, left it open for a certain period of time, and it was not accepted," Thorn said of his offer to agent Mark Bartelstein, which was roughly for three years and $10 million. "So that offer is no longer viable. We'll have more conversations. But we have to decide what direction we want to go in, just as they have to do." Newark Star-Ledger</div> Source
