joec32033 wrote:

eViL wrote:

joec32033 wrote:

eViL wrote:yeah, and now there's a report saying wade wasn't even in miami during the time this alleged meeting took place. david stern and the nba media is milking the hell out of this grown man soap opera. this is pure gossip garbage straight outta star magazine.

the media is not even trying to be accurate. it's clearly a rotation of favorite teams. changes every day. true winners are the newspapers and media outlets. anyone letting this whip them into a frenzy should pick up days of our lives, it's prob right down your alley.

While I agree the mainstream media is loving this Stern has to be hating it. After the referee scandal, you now have top players colluding (after Bron's "..we want to meet to discuss the direction of the league..." quote let's call it what it is) Stern can not be happy with how this is playing out.

see, i think stern is loving it because it's keeping the NBA news on the front page and it's generating a ton of interest on the heels of a highly rated NBA finals. i think if he had a real problem with how this is going down that he has the power to shut it all up. he seems very laxed about player tampering (perhaps because there truly is no way to police it).

Thing is none of it is considered tampering. He can't control who the players talk to on their time. The first time he heard of this meeting crap he did shut it down. Remember all of a sudden players, agents, media all backed off. Remember the guest list was like 10 deep. The top 3 plus Amare, Johnson, Boozer, plus whoever else. That just screamed labor collusion.

That one never happens and for all the talk that surrounds this FA period, where you can't turn the page and not see since Lebron ate a NY strip steak for dinner he prefers NY, or since Bosh was watching Miami Vice Sunday morning he was doing research on Miami, all of a sudden a meeting just pops up? With just the "big 3"?

I really think this whole FA period has turned into a circus that really does make the league look bad.

i hear ya. i think all the colluding looks bad too, but i'm not sure that the general perception is that negative. maybe i'm not in tune with how casual fans are perceiving this, but i'll say this much, a lot of my friends that don't follow the NBA are talking to me about free agency. makes me feel like the attention the NBA is getting is not entirely bad.

Vmart wrote:

Uptown wrote:This is absurd. Where is the accountability? These journalists are allowed to fabricate stories, pass it along as nonfiction, and when someone points out the inaccuracies, none of them are held accountable.

Your just calling out Playa aren't you.

LOL CLASSIC

No One Will Take Beasley From Heat
Jun 29, 2010 4:20 PM EST
The Heat are still trying to deal forward Michael Beasley in order to create more cap space, but Ken Berger of CBS Sports reports that a trade is unlikely to happen.

"They literally can't give him away right now," a person with knowledge of the situation told Berger. "No one is going to take that money on their cap."

Miami would be able to create additional cap space if they are able to deal Beasley's $4.9 million contract.

Both New Jersey and Minnesota are believed to have recently turned down offers from Miami that included Beasley.

The Heat waived James Jones on Tuesday, creating an additional $300,000 in cap space.

Via Ken Berger/CBS Sports

http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/67573/20100629/no_one_will_take_beasley_from_heat/#ixzz0sH9hCiQK

AnubisADL wrote:

crzymdups wrote:looks like miami is having a harder time than previously thought getting room for three max FAs. LOL.

No One Will Take Beasley From Heat
Jun 29, 2010 4:20 PM EST
The Heat are still trying to deal forward Michael Beasley in order to create more cap space, but Ken Berger of CBS Sports reports that a trade is unlikely to happen.

"They literally can't give him away right now," a person with knowledge of the situation told Berger. "No one is going to take that money on their cap."

Miami would be able to create additional cap space if they are able to deal Beasley's $4.9 million contract.

Both New Jersey and Minnesota are believed to have recently turned down offers from Miami that included Beasley.

The Heat waived James Jones on Tuesday, creating an additional $300,000 in cap space.

Via Ken Berger/CBS Sports

http://www.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/67573/20100629/no_one_will_take_beasley_from_heat/#ixzz0sH9hCiQK

Riley isnt trying to "give" away Beasley because Memphis would probably be all over him. Riley probably wants future picks or a cheaper piece. Riley was quoted as saying he will NOT give away the #2 lottery pick.

I think a Beasley for Chandler swap would suffice since Chandler is cheaper than Beasley.

i would never do that trade even if they both made the same salary. i don't want any part of michael beasley. he's a joke.

djsunyc wrote:

A modified version of the ballyhooed free-agent summit that was initially suggested and then downplayed by Dwyane Wade has indeed taken place, ESPN.com has learned.

Sources close to the situation said Monday night that three of the biggest names in basketball -- Wade, Chris Bosh and LeBron James -- met over the weekend in Miami to seriously discuss their futures, with a focus on the increasingly plausible possibility of those three teaming up with Wade's Heat.

Yet sources with knowledge of the meeting stressed to ESPN.com that James, while clearly intrigued by the possibility of forming a star-studded Miami trio with Wade and Bosh, has not yet committed to leaving his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers for South Beach.

One source did label Miami as the new frontrunner to land James in a package deal with Bosh and a re-signed Wade but also cautioned that James was "non-committal" with the start of free agency fast approaching.

Earlier Monday, Fox Sports Radio's Stephen A. Smith reported on his morning radio show and via his Twitter feed that James and Bosh have committed to joining Wade in Miami. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper, in a report on its website Monday afternoon, quoted a source close to Wade as saying that the 2006 NBA Finals MVP "believes his team is poised to pull off a free-agency coup" by signing James and Bosh and re-signing Wade.

Unless Miami trades away former No. 2 overall pick Michael Beasley to a team with salary-cap space, so it can avoid taking salary back, Heat president Pat Riley will not be able to offer the estimated 2010-11 maximum salary of $16.5 million to all three Team USA stars.

But sources told ESPN.com that James, Wade and Bosh all expressed confidence at the meeting that contractual complexities to make this ambitious triple signing work can be worked out, although it was not immediately clear if all three players would receive an equal amount or if one or two would receive the max. Another variable is whether Bosh would be willing to sign with the Heat outright or if he wants to hold out for a sign-and-trade.

Hilarous!!!!