btw, weren't you complaining about the Crawford for Harpring deal?

talk about hypocrite...

i have absolutely no comment.


this thread should be locked immediately though.

Posted by bobs3304:

i have absolutely no comment.


this thread should be locked immediately though.

can you stop suggesting that threads be locked? it's honestly a lot more annoying than any single thread you've posted in. k? thx.

Posted by djsunyc:

Posted by bobs3304:

i have absolutely no comment.


this thread should be locked immediately though.

just an fyi, this isn't realgm where people diss each other or make posts like "IBTL" or crap like that. andrew and martin do a great job trying to keep this board more about quality over quantity.

there's some good discussions going on here and i think you can see that. just b/c people don't agree, you don't gotta make a post like this.

now back to the top at hand - i wouldn't do this until the deadline AT THE EARLIEST. i agree with all of you, i think they'll try to make it work. i merely suggested IF they do consider trading marbury, then it's our GOLDEN opportunity to get near/under the cap. moving anybody else doesn't really make a dent in the cap since marbury's $20 mil is still on it from 07-09.

well said about that first part.

as for getting under the cap - it's a possibility, but I think Isiah will look to add some sort of final piece at the deadline with the expiring deals (Tim, Penny, even Sweets) rather than torpedo Marbs. And when Tim and/or Penny get traded we'll be that much further from the cap again. It'd be interesting, but I think having Larry here signifies that Isiah is going to go for it.

Posted by djsunyc:

there should only be ONE reason to move steph and that's to get cap relief. and there's only one team DESPERATE enough to take steph's deal back and that's atlanta

I just don't buy that Chad Ford stuff. Within the past 12 months, Dallas spent $73 mil on Dampier; GS spent $70 mil + on Van Exel and Adonal Foyle; Orl spent $55 mil on Turkoglu and Cato; the Celtics spent about $70 mil on Mark Blount plus Ricky Davis; Utah spent $50 mil on Okur; POR spent $80 mil on Theo Ratliff plus Darius Miles; Philly spent $80 mil on Chris Webber plus Jamal Mashburn

None of these players is better than Marbury. Most are severely inferior, although a few might debatably be near his level (like K-Mart). There's no reason playoff teams wouldn't spend $76 mil on Marbury when they spend that much on severely inferior players.

who are we going to move steph for? We'll get nothing but an unwatchable team for two years. When we get cap relief, whose gonna want to play for us?

I've said this before.. Buy low sell high. Everyone wants to deal.. Crawford, Steph, Tim Thomas, Sweetney, etc.. and their values are really low because of our season. Why not just wait and win, then see what happens. Personally, I think Tim Thomas and Crawford are going to have huge years coming up. Brown has an aura of accomplishment that these guys will respond to. Thomas will be dealt near the deadline to help a contender, he and bring cap relief. No one will be talking about trading Crawford when the season rolls.

At the end of the Olympics Steph had responded to Brown and was playing well. A reminder to those that forgot:

At the beginning of the year he was passing really well, getting people involved. Then the team quit when Craw went down, Allan was hurt.. TT was mess. It was worst case scenario. This year will be different.

[Edited by - rain on 07/28/2005 00:48:55]

Just for the record - that's the 2nd time I've ever said that. SECOND.

Why should it be locked? B/c we've gone over this way too many times for it to be brought up again. Trading Marbury would be a HUGE mistake on so many levels, and I don't have the time or energy to get into it.

Why bring in a HOF coach, with only a few years left in him, and then trade your best player???????

You guys should be carefull with bobs, next thing you know he'll tell you that you are all immature and need to grow up and call you all closet Net fans to boot. He is reall good at handling a difference of opinion like that.

I'm just bustin on you really. Its early in the morning, my boss arent here, and I don't got nothing to do for now, so I'm boared. Came on the forum and see you were a jack@ss again. So I could not pass it up with lack of better things to do.