meloshouldgo wrote:Hard to say.
Doing nothing intentionally and doing nothing accidentally can be hard to separate out

I tend to be optimistic...

Seriously, who would want to sign a place like that? losing is bad for FA but it is not always important. Look at Twolf. But what if your owner is psycho and yoor prez just got fired because of power struggle?

Dolan really has made a wrong decision here. But I don't think it is surprising to anyone that he is unfit to be an owner.

I'm surprised the Blazers haven't done any deals- they badly need to drop some salary.

KEEPCAMBYNY wrote:I'm loving what Mills is doing right now. As I said a few time already, just ride out the season with Mills and Gaines running things. Say what you want about Phil, but one gewat culture change he made forvthe knicks is thatvwe dont deal picks. Teams now know tjat the old "we need a draft pick, lets call the Knicks" strategy is no longer valid and Mills is continuing that. Hopefully that will stay a part of the organization going forward.

Mills is Phil. And Phil is Mills.

Jmpasq wrote:Ridiculous that the Warriors can pay Iggy 16 million a year to be a backup. Its not enough they have 4 All Stars but they have an Olympian for 16 million per on their bench

Taj Gibson just got 2/28. Someone just gave Galloway a three year deal.

In a relative sense, Iggy's contract is horrible and yet it's not. It's not given the marketplace, it is given the luxury tax implications. In Year 3 of that deal, the Warriors will be in the repeater bracket and the tax bill will be the highest the league has ever seen.

I understand what Lacob is going to do. If the Warriors win 2 more championships ( not hard to imagine), he will see if he can get the franchise valuation to about 4 billion. More like 3.5. Then sell the franchise in it's last legs of the Durant/Curry era and let the new ownership group take the tax bill off it's hands.

The NBA will eventually go to a hard cap and widespread use of non guaranteed contracts. You are looking at a two year type labor war ( to starve the existing players out)

The last time the owners got together in private, they were angry about Baron Davis. Gilbert Arenas. Erick Dampier. Andres Biedriens. Rip Hamilton. Eddy Curry. LeBron James. The owners don't forget, they don't forgive. The stuff and crap Zinger is pulling now will hurt the generations of players coming in behind him.

These modern NBA players, most of them are selfish and stupid. They have as good as any pro athlete in the Western world will ever have it, and they act like spoiled children. Well it's going to end. Ever hear the saying, "Why can't we have something nice?" Usually to denote that a bunch of ignorants, idiots and thugs were a small group, but ruined the entire system in place for everyone? It's like a neighborhood where one neighbor acts like a douchebag and everyone else suffers. Well no more. During the next major labor war, the owners are going to turn the screws on the players.

Charles Barkley was the only one with the balls to say it during The Decision. That LBJ made old billionaires get on their knees and beg, when he already knew what he was going to do. He was just playing games with everyone, toying with them, letting team hurt their futures because he was teasing them with false hope. Then he rubbed it in everyone's face. So, of course, when Durant leaves OKC, LBJ goes into a tizzy, goes insane and demands Nike and his agent push on Durant hard, so "everyone" can get the same backlash he got.

LBJ has done a lot to make the NBA a ton of money. He's also one of the biggest idiots in all of modern sports history. He literally dragged the entire league down with him. Like Barkley said, it's not hard to tell which of these guys were raised without a father.