SG Jamal Crawford, 36

C Marreese Speights, 28

PG Ramon Sessions, 30

PG Aaron Brooks, 31

Caseloads wrote:can we get him?

There's no way for us to offer him a big enough contract that Miami wouldn't match so he's now out of the question. He was one of the guys i wanted before the Noah/Lee signings though.

reub wrote:Can Miami match that Nets offer?

Yep, he's restricted- only issue will be luxury tax issues in yr 3 and 4 of the contract.

MS wrote:This league is a ****ing joke. I don't care about the new TV deal. This kid was a fringe rotation player and he just got 50MM.

these contracts will end the league.

It's unfortunate that fans who follow the NBA have zero interest in understanding the NBA. They prefer to believe things in they make up in their head, rather than consider the facts.

The TV contract powering these mostly 4 and in some cases 5 years contracts is a 9 year deal.

The playoffs just concluded with record ratings.

NBA still has lucrative foreign streaming deals to write, like the recent one with China.

The draft and the free agency frenzy continues to drive interest in the league.

The contracts don't have the ability to make a dent in the league much less end it.

The players getting all this money was pre-determined.

I know there are fans who don't like that fact but it's troublesome they refuse to understand the fact.

It was mathematically impossible and would violate the CBA for the money not to be flowing like it is.

You don't have to like it, but to deny it is choosing willful ignorance.

MS wrote:This league is a joke. I don't care about the new TV deal. This kid was a fringe rotation player and he just got 50MM.

Biambo had 10 good games and gets 70MM.

20 guys that never made an all star team and can't win a game by themeselves just got 15MM plus a year.

I never want to hear about Wall Street again, when guys I've never heard of are getting 40-60MM long term deals.

It's too bad we didn't just split Affalos money last year and lock in a couple more guys long term, these contracts will end the league. Harrison Barnes and Ryan Anderson are making more than Steph Curry and Russell Westbrook. 20MM per for guys that will never make an All Star team.

Just a shame that the guys that built the league made what one of these marginal role players will make next year!

And then there will be tons of players on minimum salaries.

FURTHERMORE, when the cap spikes again in a year and the next year, these crazy deals handed out will be the new normal / cheap. With the expanding cap, these deals will be relative bargains.

That's why the draft is SO IMPORTANT. DRAFTING GOOD TALENT means you keep that talent, as long as you don't trade it away (SEE: GRANT). Plus, the players are on restricted deals that are cheap.

The problem is, there are very few stars in the NBA, and very few stars in the NBA change teams ever. Look at the Lakers. Shut out, again. Phoenix, shut out. ETC.

At least we got talent. We could have EASILY been shut out.