Twin escribió:T-Will parece una mezcla entre Scofield y morritos Reiziger aquel lateral del Barcelona
Yola Berrocal+Reiziger...madre mía, vaya labiacos que tiene.
Lee Is “Hurting”, but Alston Likes Nets’ “Young Athletic” Team
July 10, 2009, 10:24 am
In an interview during Thursday night’s summer league action, Dwight Howard said Courtney Lee is still “hurting” after the Carter trade. His teammate then and now, Rafer Alston, isn’t. He’s enthused: “I’m very excited to be on the court with a lot of young athletic guys, although I’m getting old”. One of those “guys” is Terrence Williams, who has impressed Nets brass with each “passing” game.
LeBron James more likely to stay a Cav if salary cap continues to drop
by Brian Windhorst, Plain Dealer Reporter
Friday July 10, 2009, 12:13 AM
A falling salary cap could help the Cavaliers hold on to star LeBron James when he becomes a free agent in 2010.
CLEVELAND -- Looking ahead to the much-hyped summer of 2010, the Cavaliers are facing some good news and bad news.
The Cavs signed Anderson Varejao to a six-year contract Thursday that guarantees him $42.5 million plus incentives. The team is expected to sign guard Anthony Parker to a two-year deal worth around $6 million as early as today, according to a source. The Cavs still have roughly $5 million to spend, as part of different cap exceptions that cannot be combined, and they are expected to use much of it.
With that in mind, here's something else: ESPN obtained a memo this week that the league office distributed to all teams, which warned that the salary cap next summer may decrease between $4 million and $7 million.
Which means if things go according to plan, the Cavs will not have significant salary-cap space next summer. They will be able re-sign LeBron James and even Shaquille O'Neal if they are so inclined. But realistically, not much money for outside free agents.
For fans dreaming of Chris Bosh, that represents the bad news.
The memo was jarring and if it comes true, it could change everything many expect to happen next year. The reduction was not totally unexpected but to see the projected numbers was sobering. It may not be an exaggeration either, this past season NBA revenues increased 2.5 percent and the salary cap still fell $1 million, just the second drop in the 25-year history of the cap. Revenue is expected to fall next season.
But that situation is also the good news. Perhaps . . . very good news.
In trying to boil it down and make it as easy as possible to understand, if the cap drops as predicted, then James' financial incentive to remain with the Cavs will increase exponentially.
If you want the intricate details please read the next five paragraphs. If not, skip them and read about the impact to the New York Knicks and any other potential James suitors.
The maximum salary is determined by using a complex formula that basically comes out to 30 percent of a team's salary cap for players like James, who will have seven years experience by next summer. Thirty percent, or 105 percent of the player's previous season's salary if he stays with the same team. In the Cavs' case, that could be a very big "or."
Since 1997, when the maximum salaries were created, 30 percent of the cap almost always was higher than the 105-percent clause. But with the cap dropping like a stone, things are changing. James holds an option for the 2010-11 season worth $17.1 million. If the cap comes in as low as expected, the maximum salary James could sign a new contract for with anyone besides the Cavs could be less than $15 million.
By accepting his option and then extending his current contract, the Cavs can also give James around $2 million more per season and larger raises than a new team can.
So, if James signs an extension next summer he will probably be in position to make $7 million to $8 million more in just that three-year span. Not to mention it would potentially put him in a position to establish himself above the maximum contract for the rest of his career, which could possibly be worth tens of millions over the next dozen or so years depending on where the salary cap goes.
These ultra rare situations are known as "supermax" contracts in the NBA. The only two players in the league who have such "supermaxes" are O'Neal and Kevin Garnett, because their contracts predate the 1997 Collective Bargaining Agreement and they are grandfathered in.
So while that may have turned your mind to mush, understand something else. The cap shrinking will make it very difficult for teams to sign two maximum players next summer. That was the Knicks' dream as they began a two-year implosion process on their roster last summer.
The cap rules and the Knicks' current salary commitments not only might prevent them from signing two players to max deals, but because of the dropping cap, anyone they do sign to a max deal may have to accept millions less than if they stayed with their team. A major part of the Knicks' strategy is to lure James by signing another megastar to play with him.
While it is possible to circumvent that with a sign-and-trade, the Knicks won't have virtually anything to trade because they have stripped every player from their roster they can who has a contract that runs beyond next season.
All of this comes with the caveat that the NBA, like most things in the business world, is fluid. But the spreadsheets continue to indicate James' will remain a Cav for the foreseeable future.
underrated escribió:Por si alguien todavía se creía que aspirábamos a él, Brandon Bass a Orlando, 4 años y $18 millones, buen contrato.
No creo que firmemos contratos de más de un año, y baratitos en todo caso. Yo no pido tanto, con que firmen a Diogu, por mí ya hacen el verano.
underrated escribió:Por eso he dicho, buen contrato. Aunque tampoco diría baratito, yo creo que eso es más o menos lo que vale en mi opinión, buen fichaje para Orlando.
Y dicen también que Frye (otro que se decía que nos interesaba, aunque, como Bass, ya se podía ver fuera de nuestro alcance) va a Phoenix por $3.8 millones y 2 temporadas.
Lo dicho, nosotros a esperar las baratijas que nos dejen los demás.
When Dan Patrick asked Shaquille O’Neal about off season moves Thursday, the Big Aristotle said there was only one that he found surprising. “The only move that really, really shocked me was when Orlando got rid of Courtney Lee,” said Shaq, totally unsolicited. “That dude is going to be a star, I’m telling you right now…Star, star, star.” Patrick’s response: “That’s interesting.”
RDRadio escribió:Es normal que Lee se desilusione, de estar en un equipo que aspira a todo y de haber jugado una final a irse a un equipo que tiene toda la pinta de ir a por el pick 1, sinceramente, yo me apuntaria al club de antifans de los Magic, si fuera Lee claro...
Twin escribió:palabra de ShaqWhen Dan Patrick asked Shaquille O’Neal about off season moves Thursday, the Big Aristotle said there was only one that he found surprising. “The only move that really, really shocked me was when Orlando got rid of Courtney Lee,” said Shaq, totally unsolicited. “That dude is going to be a star, I’m telling you right now…Star, star, star.” Patrick’s response: “That’s interesting.”
¿tendra algo que ver su pasado con los Magic para que haga estas declaraciones?
redjor escribió:Miremoslo por el lado positivo, el año que viene nos iremos a dormir antes en el draft
underrated escribió:Twin escribió:palabra de ShaqWhen Dan Patrick asked Shaquille O’Neal about off season moves Thursday, the Big Aristotle said there was only one that he found surprising. “The only move that really, really shocked me was when Orlando got rid of Courtney Lee,” said Shaq, totally unsolicited. “That dude is going to be a star, I’m telling you right now…Star, star, star.” Patrick’s response: “That’s interesting.”
¿tendra algo que ver su pasado con los Magic para que haga estas declaraciones?
Sinceramente, no creo que Lee vaya a ser una estrella. Depende también de lo que se entienda por estrella, claro. Yo le veo como un titular de mucho nivel, que no es poco, pero nada más.
Lee no tiene ni de cerca tanta calidad ofensiva como Harris, por ejemplo, y sí, es buen tirador y defensor, pero tampoco destaca precisamente en facetas como el rebote o las asistencias.
underrated escribió:Twin escribió:a todo esto anoche perdimos otra vez
No hemos ganado ni un partido.
RDRadio escribió:Es normal que Lee se desilusione, de estar en un equipo que aspira a todo y de haber jugado una final a irse a un equipo que tiene toda la pinta de ir a por el pick 1, sinceramente, yo me apuntaria al club de antifans de los Magic, si fuera Lee claro...
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