Poison pills

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  1. Chuck Taylor

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    I'm sure you've all heard by now that the Rocket's offer to Asik was back-loaded with a 15 million dollar season in year 3 to mess with the Bulls.

    This got me thinking:

    1.) Is there anything we can do to include a poison pill in Hibbert's offer sheet? Or is a max contract simply a max contract, and there's no wiggle room? Is there at least some kind of signing bonus we could include?

    2.) The Blazers should be prepared for Minnesota or whoever signs Batum to an offer sheet to include a poison pill. I wonder what it would be?
     
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    Great new nickname from Papa G!
     
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    I think best we can do is a signing bonus payable on offer being official(matched or declined) along with whole first year salary that would require Simon to come up with about 17 million in cash within 3 days, which could be awfully tough for him. Awfully tough for a lot of owners. I believe most of his money is in real estate. Don't know how quickly he comes up with somehting like that.
     
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    Why are you becoming a troll?
     
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    Anyhow, as I understand it, Hibbert's deal can be frontloaded for ~$18 million the first year with a cash 'poison pill' that must be paid this summer.

    If that's the case, then I'd expect Paul Allen to authorize that type of deal.
     
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    Becoming?!?
     
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    No shit. There's nothing about nicknames in this thread.

    Sly's post came moments after mine. In this short thread. Makes me somewhat understand your rant a little bit more. Whatever gets post counts up, I suppose.
     
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    What I don't get is how is the $18M determined?

    How do we arrive at that max figure?
     
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    I tried to communicate this with you via PM, but apparently we need to take up open threads and hijack them.
     
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    Just sayin'. :cheers:
     
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    Sorry my iPhone is retarded and I lefty computer at my office, so my messages a are bitch on here (my settings are an issue on this phone).
     
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    The post count was fantastic today prior to your trolling, and I didn't notice any One v. One crap until BG entered the Hibbert thread. Yet here comes along you to escalate the petty bullshit.
     
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    I now fully support PapaG for mod.

    PapaG in 2012.

    For realz.
     
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    For the record, I wasn't trolling. Just thought the nicknames were weak. So was Cooney. It ain't personal. Sorry for being honest.
     
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  19. SlyPokerDog

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    Guys I was just kidding around. I didn't mean to offend, insult or hijack a thread. I think it's great that you two are trying to work out things via PM.
     
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    I don't feel that I escalated anything. It was just one post. Hardly trolling. But if you feel that I insulted you I apologize.
     
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