By Adrian Wojnarowski
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Rudy Gay has reached agreement on a three-year, $40 million contract extension with the Sacramento Kings, league sources told Yahoo Sports.

CrushAlot wrote:

By Adrian Wojnarowski
1 hour ago

Yahoo Sports

Rudy Gay has reached agreement on a three-year, $40 million contract extension with the Sacramento Kings, league sources told Yahoo Sports.

ROTFLOL!

He knew he had to take that contract

Uptown wrote:LMAO @ Kobe with 24 shots in the first half....can it be more obvious that dude is strictly playing for the all time scoring record....

From what I understand, that first half, the rest of the players just sucked. Lin had his worst performance of the season. Hill came back to earth and Boozer is well Boozer.

Been watching the Lakers some and Kobe has lost a step or 2. He really needs to adapt and pick his spots. The problem with them is their bigs. They can't defend and they don't set good screens. Kobe and Lin needs this. Kobe due to his diminishing skills and Lin because Lin is a PnR player.

One rival team executive said the Nuggets called to propose a trade that was obviously unkosher under league rules, something that rarely, if ever, happens because no general manager wants to betray ignorance of such a rudimentary part of the gig. Most have the good sense to call the league to fact-check potential acquisitions.

General managers are engaged in a 12-month game of poker. They read each other for tells and vulnerabilities and prey on weaknesses. Projecting a lack of confidence or expertise can mark you as the fish at the table.

"There's definitely a lack of confidence when Tim calls," a different exec said. "You can hear it, and it's not even his fault because this wasn't a job he sought out. The s--- hit the fan [in late spring 2013], and he was needed in triage right away. How do you not take the job if it's offered?"

The team’s best player after Faried, point man Ty Lawson, has still struggled with his long-suffering ankles this year. Danilo Gallinari has been wildly inconsistent after missing about a year and a half with a torn ACL (and weirdly botched recovery time), JaVale McGee still can’t find a home on an NBA court, rookies Gary Harris and Jusuf Nurkic haven’t had much time to contribute, Wilson Chandler looks completely lost on the offensive end, and Arron Afflalo has yet to approximate his breakout 2013-14 campaign in his return to Denver.

The team is nearly paying the luxury tax for this mess. There will be some options this summer, but the team will also be paying eight figure salaries to four players. Five, if the team decides to hand an appropriate extension to Afflalo should he opt out of the final year of his deal.

The roster is almost entirely made up of Ujiri hires, and though he’s earned our respect it is worth noting that Masai signed a healthy chunk of that 2-7 Denver Nuggets lineup and relatively few prominent members of the current Toronto Raptor team that appears on their way toward another Atlantic title. That’s just how luck runs in this league sometimes, and too often the hiring of a coach (and who was more coveted, in the summer of 2013, than Brian Shaw?) is enough to knock things pear-shaped.

The Denver Nuggets, as always, are back to acting as one weird experiment.

H1AND1 wrote:And that's an interesting point about Masai, who so many NBA nerds love to fellate as a genius. What exactly has he done besides get the best of Jim Dolan a couple times (which btw is not saying much, hell even a rite of passage as an NBA gm)?

He drafted Kenneth Faried and Evan Fournier. ( Both late first round picks) Both took time to develop, but Faried broke out with Team USA and Fournier looks pretty good now as a young on the rise prospect.

He converted the perpetually injured Nene for JaVale McGee. While McGee is a player with a ten cent head, at least McGee can actually suit up for games. Nene would break something just having the wind blow too hard near him.

Immediately dumped the Bargnani and Gay contracts once in Toronto, often seen as immovable to most. ( Gay is not the same player he became in Sacto) Despite having close to zero trade leverage, simply waited Dolan out to get Mozgov, who strangely might be the most valuable player the Nuggets got in the Melo trade.

I'm not hot on the Nuggets pickup of Igoudala, but he managed to get something for him in a sign and trade instead of losing him for nothing.

You could argue he didn't have complete control in Denver ( thus his exodus along with Karl) but having it now in Toronto, that team looks pretty good. The Cabolco pick will probably define his Raptors era, but if I had to choose between a young gun GM in his mid 40s or Phil Jackson, who might not be alive in five years, or at least will likely be out of basketball, I'd rather the Knick had Ujiri.

Maybe he does get credit for a bit of common sense ( if you are going to try to trade rape a team, go to the Knicks and Kings first) but sometimes the best path is the simple path. If he was the Knicks GM instead of Dolan going for Zeke and Zen and whomever else, before Sacto and Randedive smartened up, it's possible STAT would be rotting on the bench in a Kings uniform right now.

Sorry, until Zen proves himself and the Knicks start turning copper into gold from the draft and UDFA and 2nd rounders and Tier 3 free agents, I don't think anyone here should be pissing on other team's GMs who have had some moderate success. Because it's far more success than the current Knicks have.

TripleThreat wrote:

H1AND1 wrote:And that's an interesting point about Masai, who so many NBA nerds love to fellate as a genius. What exactly has he done besides get the best of Jim Dolan a couple times (which btw is not saying much, hell even a rite of passage as an NBA gm)?

He drafted Kenneth Faried and Evan Fournier. ( Both late first round picks) Both took time to develop, but Faried broke out with Team USA and Fournier looks pretty good now as a young on the rise prospect.

He converted the perpetually injured Nene for JaVale McGee. While McGee is a player with a ten cent head, at least McGee can actually suit up for games. Nene would break something just having the wind blow too hard near him.

Immediately dumped the Bargnani and Gay contracts once in Toronto, often seen as immovable to most. ( Gay is not the same player he became in Sacto) Despite having close to zero trade leverage, simply waited Dolan out to get Mozgov, who strangely might be the most valuable player the Nuggets got in the Melo trade.

I'm not hot on the Nuggets pickup of Igoudala, but he managed to get something for him in a sign and trade instead of losing him for nothing.

You could argue he didn't have complete control in Denver ( thus his exodus along with Karl) but having it now in Toronto, that team looks pretty good. The Cabolco pick will probably define his Raptors era, but if I had to choose between a young gun GM in his mid 40s or Phil Jackson, who might not be alive in five years, or at least will likely be out of basketball, I'd rather the Knick had Ujiri.

Maybe he does get credit for a bit of common sense ( if you are going to try to trade rape a team, go to the Knicks and Kings first) but sometimes the best path is the simple path. If he was the Knicks GM instead of Dolan going for Zeke and Zen and whomever else, before Sacto and Randedive smartened up, it's possible STAT would be rotting on the bench in a Kings uniform right now.

Sorry, until Zen proves himself and the Knicks start turning copper into gold from the draft and UDFA and 2nd rounders and Tier 3 free agents, I don't think anyone here should be pissing on other team's GMs who have had some moderate success. Because it's far more success than the current Knicks have.

Yes because dolan personally called me to sign off on the Phil Jackson hire.

Are you kidding? lmao

TripleThreat wrote:

H1AND1 wrote:And that's an interesting point about Masai, who so many NBA nerds love to fellate as a genius. What exactly has he done besides get the best of Jim Dolan a couple times (which btw is not saying much, hell even a rite of passage as an NBA gm)?

He drafted Kenneth Faried and Evan Fournier. ( Both late first round picks) Both took time to develop, but Faried broke out with Team USA and Fournier looks pretty good now as a young on the rise prospect.

He converted the perpetually injured Nene for JaVale McGee. While McGee is a player with a ten cent head, at least McGee can actually suit up for games. Nene would break something just having the wind blow too hard near him.

Immediately dumped the Bargnani and Gay contracts once in Toronto, often seen as immovable to most. ( Gay is not the same player he became in Sacto) Despite having close to zero trade leverage, simply waited Dolan out to get Mozgov, who strangely might be the most valuable player the Nuggets got in the Melo trade.

I'm not hot on the Nuggets pickup of Igoudala, but he managed to get something for him in a sign and trade instead of losing him for nothing.

You could argue he didn't have complete control in Denver ( thus his exodus along with Karl) but having it now in Toronto, that team looks pretty good. The Cabolco pick will probably define his Raptors era, but if I had to choose between a young gun GM in his mid 40s or Phil Jackson, who might not be alive in five years, or at least will likely be out of basketball, I'd rather the Knick had Ujiri.

Maybe he does get credit for a bit of common sense ( if you are going to try to trade rape a team, go to the Knicks and Kings first) but sometimes the best path is the simple path. If he was the Knicks GM instead of Dolan going for Zeke and Zen and whomever else, before Sacto and Randedive smartened up, it's possible STAT would be rotting on the bench in a Kings uniform right now.

Sorry, until Zen proves himself and the Knicks start turning copper into gold from the draft and UDFA and 2nd rounders and Tier 3 free agents, I don't think anyone here should be pissing on other team's GMs who have had some moderate success. Because it's far more success than the current Knicks have.