Without looking, I'm going to guess Myles Plumlee and Meyers Leonard. But that's only because I mentioned Plumlee in another thread. EDIT: Boy was I wrong.
Yes, I've seen that. We were his second choice for where he actually WANTED to play, but unlike Hedo, Hibbert etc., he did not use our interest as leverage to get the contract he wanted from the team that was his first choice. DAL wasn't his first, or second choice, but they were the ones he met with first and used as leverage to get the max offer he wanted from MIA. I would have never wanted Hedo or Hibbert here after the way they played us. I'd still take Whiteside in a heartbeat. His interest in us was genuine. He wasn't just using us to get what he wanted elsewhere. BNM
I don't quite understand the notion that Hibbert "played us". The way I recall the narrative, he was all set to sign an offer sheet with us, but when we were informed that Indy would match it, we simply backed off. I don't recall any Hedo-istic narrative around Hibbert.
It was the typical play the market, see what someone else will give you and we'll match. He used us as the barometer for what the market would bear. He may not have held all the cards, but he still used us to get the most he could out of IND. BNM
Hibbert, as an RFA is an example. He used us as leverage to get the best offer possible out of IND, but as an RFA didn't really have the option to reject us. We pulled our offer when we learned IND was planning to match, but had he signed the offer sheet, it would have been IND's choice, not his whether he ended up here, or not. Whiteside, as a UFA both used DAL for leverage AND rejected them. As a UFA, he had the option to choose DAL's offer, but made the choice to reject them and accept MIA's comparable offer. BNM
I’m guessing the top one is Stevie Wonder, and the bottom one is Rosie O’Donnell. I will take Stevie because he is a motivator, Rosie is a locker-room cancer.
