And the Cap Space is sufficiant to sign Bron and Lee.

What would you like more, LeBron, Lee and a 2011 Max, or Bosh & Bron, no Lee no 2011?

SteveSmith wrote:No, this year seems to direct to the playoffs. And for this, it would not without JJ.

And the Cap Space is sufficiant to sign Bron and Lee.

What would you like more, LeBron, Lee and a 2011 Max, or Bosh & Bron, no Lee no 2011?

u will still have Curry's $11 million coming off the cap after next year, so even if u sign 2 max guys this offseason u can still sign another impact FA in 2011... dumping Fishlips is a no brainer... even if u decide to go Lee & someone else instead of Bosh, having that cap flexibility is key to this entire offseason... there's no guarantees that Lebron will sign here, but u have a much better chance of it happening if u can bring in as much top talent as u can this offseason... Fishlips is a nice help defender but otherwise he's a liability... u need to get Jordan Hill into the rotation at some point as well.

Still completely in gambling-for-Bron-mode, but I can see guys taking qualifiing offers from their Teams to compete in the Knicks-Idol show.

This mega TV event will be from Nov 2010 until July 2011. LeBron, Dantoni and Walsh is the jury, while every 2011 free agent will compete to be chosen by the chosen one ^^

But: Its only working this way if we have enough money left.

But it is like it is. And I think we are that far, that we can expect that there will be a good team down the road really wanting Jeffries. Not just take him for 2 tomatos and a apple. No, they will give us somebody (pick/player) valuable at the trade deadline, because he will help them advance further in the playoffs.

If we are out of the playoff picture in a month, im totally for trading him, but until then, let us wait. It might be the most boring task for a fan or a sportswriter to watch Donnie work as a GM on a day-to-day basic. But thats the thing, he is not working day-to-day. And if the team is doing nicely and making the playoffs as a 7th, play 5 games of playoffs against the Cavs, it will be more important then 7 mio more cap space.

Its just my point of view, and I admit that this is looking like a team were you can exchange one part (Hill for Jeffries) and still have the same kind of team. You just cant tell in advance.

@ earthmansurfer: Dont make the mistake and take Hills DNP as not developing.
Im amazed that there is no second league in US-Basketball. No place were a player like Hill could develop by leading a team.
But if he is not playing at the moment, it doesnt mean that he is not learning. He is practicing with the team and learning at the games. And its not a bad thing the team is playing good. Thats the first time in ages that a young player can watch our team and learn good stuff. No Marbury behind a towel. No Nate joking while the team is losing. No ballhogs playing 1-5 the whole game. No, he can watch the pick and roll, the defensive hustle, the ball sharing. He can see what David Lee, Jared Jeffries and Wilson are doing, and he will be better by imitating them. If he is as bright as you can only hope, he will pick up more by watching and learning, then by beeing forced to play when he is not ready.

Thats not what I think is helping.

Let me explain how its handled at football (soccer for my US friends )

There is a system of up to 8 leagues in germany. The first 3 are Pro-Leagues, the last one is the one a UK team would play in ^^
The junior teams of every pro club are playing in the appropriate league (mostly 3-5) and every player below 23 years is allowed to switch between the pros and the youths. They are practicing together, and every young player is attending the games of the pros. When a young player is playing great and the pro team has a need, he gets to the pros for 3 games. When the normal rotation players are good to go, he gets back to the second unit.

Thats developing young players in my view.

TheGame wrote:I have gone back and forth on this. Our biggest problem is not Jeffries, it is Lee. Walsh should have wrapped him up this past summer for the $7 mil per year we could have had him for. Now it is likely going to take at least $10 mil per year to resign Lee, which means we have to trade Jeffries to keep this team together. At this point, we drafted Hill to be a young athletic center of the future. So we basically need to go all in and trade Jeffries. Now that Jeffries has some trade value, we might be able to do a deal trading him for an expiring by himself without including Nate or another asset. We then sign Lebron, resign Lee and maybe Nate and let Harrington, Darko, and Hughes leave. Team next year is Douglas, Chandler, Lebron, Lee, DG, with Nate and Hill on the bench.

There was no way Lee was signing a long term contract for 7. His agent actually wanted 12. Lee is actually playing up to what his agent wanted. We could have signed Lee to 7 two years ago but back then he wasn't worth it.