mrKnickShot wrote:SupremeCommander wrote:franco12 wrote:SupremeCommander wrote:Bonn1997 wrote:holfresh wrote:Bonn1997 wrote:holfresh wrote:U guys are nuts?..Elton Brand at 10.8 pts and 6.7 boards, 18 mil next two years...How come the only people worried about Amare's knees are the posters in this forum...
What? Even his former team wouldn't give him a long-term deal because of his knees. The only people not worried about his knees are the people who thought we had a .700 team.
So why are other NBA teams itching to get him??..Arent they afraid too???
What's your evidence for that?
Seriously? Where's your evidence for your assertion? Oh I get it--you two disagree so he needs to provide you empirical evidence!
No - I tend to agree with Bonn- I don't see teams itching to get Amar'e. They may be thinking that they can take advantage of us - that they are itching for- and trade their problem for ours because they think their problem is bigger and, oh, just by making a trade with us they come out better for it - and that is based on historical data.
tend to agree implies opinion. I'm not agreeing/disagreeing because frankly I don't know where I stand. But there is no hard empirical evidence to back the asserion the flipside of holfresh's opinon that other NBA team's are itching to get Amar'e.
So if Philly is willing to shed salary to trade for Amar'e, isn't that kind of like saying they would have signed him had they had the cap room?
Doesn't the one who makes the assertion (not merely state an opinion) usually need to back that with a supportable argument that is predicated by facts?
If one says "why are so many teams interested in him" that is a pretty strong statement like it's is a known fact and one might tend to ask "how do you know that"? "What is the proof of this"?
In my "opinion", I don't believe there are many teams that are retarded enough to take on a 100 million dollar player in-decline who cannot get his contract insured.
But that is just my opinion 
I think you and franco missed my point on this... Bonn likes to pull **** out of his ass, and when there is information readily available on Google (as he just put it), and it doesn't flow with his line of thinking, he starts demeaning and screaming for empirical evidence.
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I really don't yet have an opinion Amar'e and other teams willingness to acquire him for a headliner package. This schedule certainly isn't accomodating to someone with his medical history, which could make it worse, or it could get better when he can rest.
But my "opinion" is that he's better and bigger than Rashard Lewis and Gilbert Arenas when they were traded. He also is not owed $100 million.
