loweyecue wrote:mrKnickShot wrote:Bonn1997 wrote:mrKnickShot wrote:Bonn1997 wrote:Are we really paying Felton $18 mil? I don't get it.
Thank heaven that you are not our GM 
Well we wouldn't have Mr. .470 and we wouldn't have won only one playoff game in the past 10+ years.
I guess you would not have these Mr's on your team:
Mr .450 - Deron
Mr .470 - CPaul (he might be borderline?)
Mr .440 - PPierce
Mr .450 - Kobe
Mr .420 - GALLO
Mr .440 - Granger
Mr .440 - Lin (.340 against > .500 teams)
Mr .460 - KLove (who I love)
Mr .460 - Rudy Gay
Mr .430 - Ryan Anderson (who you love??)
Do you need a new knick name?
It depends on what they cost. Carmelo is not a bad player but he is NOT worth more money than Lebron James, this should not be a discussion. Lin on the other hand would have been an above average player at an average salary ($8M per) - All the lux taxt crap could have been resolved by the strech option this has been discussed extensively. BTW what's Melo against > .500 teams?
I believe that 7 players on the are either at the max or will get it soon.
Lebron is MUCH MUCH better than Melo (and if the max was 50 million, he deserves it) and the only reason why he took a pay cut is because three of them came on together.
Lin at 8+ and the poison pill? Not so sure that is a simple decision off 25 games. Martin had a nice post about the complexity of this. This was complicated, and I actually wanted him back but that does not mean it was the right move. And, my hunch (and I could be wrong) that he chose not to compete in the Miami series leaves me with a bit of a bad taste.