Markji wrote:Brewer also has a $5 mil Qualifying Offer for next year. I doubt we keep him. This is just one of several parts of the trade that stunk. But we accepted them all. To deflect aguments - I was and still am positive about the trade in general.

we wanted Brewer. Denver was going to get him but knicks lobbied they should get him and we got him. Knicks wanted Brewer for some reason

Biggamer3 wrote:

Markji wrote:Brewer also has a $5 mil Qualifying Offer for next year. I doubt we keep him. This is just one of several parts of the trade that stunk. But we accepted them all. To deflect aguments - I was and still am positive about the trade in general.

we wanted Brewer. Denver was going to get him but knicks lobbied they should get him and we got him. Knicks wanted Brewer for some reason

Biggamer3 wrote:

Markji wrote:Brewer also has a $5 mil Qualifying Offer for next year. I doubt we keep him. This is just one of several parts of the trade that stunk. But we accepted them all. To deflect aguments - I was and still am positive about the trade in general.

we wanted Brewer. Denver was going to get him but knicks lobbied they should get him and we got him. Knicks wanted Brewer for some reason

Makes no sense if Mike's not gonna use him..No doubt you heard this Big, I'm sure you're probably right..But if Brewer never plays here, it'll just show that Mike and Donnie reall aren't on the same page sometimes afterall..I was actually looking forward to seeing Corey Brewer get some time last night..I think Brewer has more to offer this team than Billy Walker.

Knickoftime wrote:

Markji wrote:I read we were trying to move him by getting another team involved. Minny didn't want him at $5 mil for next year.

QO are team options.

If Minny didn't want him, all they had to do was not extend the QO.

Knickoftime wrote:Brewer can't be moved.

Azu and Mason can though and is enough salary.

You willing to trade AZ without him playing one single game

knicks1248 wrote:

Finestrg wrote:

Biggamer3 wrote:

Markji wrote:Brewer also has a $5 mil Qualifying Offer for next year. I doubt we keep him. This is just one of several parts of the trade that stunk. But we accepted them all. To deflect aguments - I was and still am positive about the trade in general.

we wanted Brewer. Denver was going to get him but knicks lobbied they should get him and we got him. Knicks wanted Brewer for some reason

Makes no sense if Mike's not gonna use him..No doubt you heard this Big, I'm sure you're probably right..But if Brewer never plays here, it'll just show that Mike and Donnie reall aren't on the same page sometimes afterall..I was actually looking forward to seeing Corey Brewer get some time last night..I think Brewer has more to offer this team than Billy Walker.

really, you would have thrown a very suspect offensive player in the mix without seeing him practice, or know if and where he would fit..In the middle of a playoff race your experimenting..lol

Guess you're right..Eventually though I'd like to see Brewer over Walker.

Panos wrote:Still makes no sense. What's the point?

Because without the limitations, there be chaos. Teams could make trades on paper and using the 125% trade limitation, keeping making transactions to bypass the limitation.

For instance I can trade a player who makes $4m, for a player who makes $5m, then turn the $5m player into a $6.25m player, and him into a $8m player. At the end of the day you'd have turned a $4m player into an $8m player.

Technically that can still happen withe the one-for-one provision, but multi-player trades would make this MUCH easier and faster. It would allow teams over the cap just to constantly move players on paper, escalating their spending without limitations.