He will have to step it up on the visable side. Charlotte is a bank city and they are a bit ill right now.

If they had a brain they can call it the "Charlotte Nike" after the Nike Missle and use that as the logo. Nothing sells more than a phallic symbol anyway! North Carolina loves baskeball and they can keep bringing in those ACC talent. I stopped going to games but a few a year. Im hoping they make the playoffs and create a buzz. I hate Jordan but root for them to succeed.

He better watch his weight. He does not look healthy.

crzymdups wrote:if the knicks can't get bosh, tyrus thomas should be a MAIN target.

So for the same price for Bosh + some veteran min (Mikki Moore?) scrub you can have Lee and Tyrus Thomas. Is this even a debate? THEN you have $17mm left to offer a max FA. Obviously I am shooting for Lebron. But say Lebron scorns us and it turns out that Tracy McGrady is pretty damn good the rest of the year.

Say we do:
Joe Johnson 5 years $59mm (starting at $10mm)
TMac 5 years $41mm (starting at $7mm)

I think with Horford's max contract looming and playing for MDA again that Atl would let JJ walk for that. The xfactor is McGrady and if he's healthy and feeling healthy would he accept that? I would certainly hope so. Its a wild card but assuming he shows he has some legs left next 6 weeks your line up next year would look like this:
PG Joe Johnson 6'7
SG McGrady 6'8
SF Gallo 6'10
PF Lee 6'9
C TThomas 6'10
bench: Douglas, Chandler, Giddens, Walker

Boy thats a lot of size and skill to deal with. I like the bench also.

If the McGrady wildcard comes though thats a good and plausable team.

kam77 wrote:Isn't $175M how much more LeBron would make if he stayed with the CAVS? I'm pretty sure it is.

That is how much he is leaving on the table if he opts not to stay with the cavs!

fishmike wrote:

crzymdups wrote:if the knicks can't get bosh, tyrus thomas should be a MAIN target.

I think he should be anyway. In fact I would take Tyrus over Bosh because of the money. Bosh = $17mm. Tyrus = $9.5mm (5 years $55mm). Lee = $9mm (6 years $70mm).

So for the same price for Bosh + some veteran min (Mikki Moore?) scrub you can have Lee and Tyrus Thomas. Is this even a debate? THEN you have $17mm left to offer a max FA. Obviously I am shooting for Lebron. But say Lebron scorns us and it turns out that Tracy McGrady is pretty damn good the rest of the year.

Say we do:
Joe Johnson 5 years $59mm (starting at $10mm)
TMac 5 years $41mm (starting at $7mm)

I think with Horford's max contract looming and playing for MDA again that Atl would let JJ walk for that. The xfactor is McGrady and if he's healthy and feeling healthy would he accept that? I would certainly hope so. Its a wild card but assuming he shows he has some legs left next 6 weeks your line up next year would look like this:
PG Joe Johnson 6'7
SG McGrady 6'8
SF Gallo 6'10
PF Lee 6'9
C TThomas 6'10
bench: Douglas, Chandler, Giddens, Walker

Boy thats a lot of size and skill to deal with. I like the bench also.

If the McGrady wildcard comes though thats a good and plausable team.

If we can't land Lebron, I'd much rather this alternaitve as opposed to bust, or dismantle or whatever that he!! thats supposed to mean.

Andrew wrote:

MS wrote:We could have had Tyrus for his 6 Million dollar option next season. However Donnie didn't want to give up Al Harrington when we were playing good basketball. Which is just plain stupid because he was going to trade our lottery pick and best defender. Just wow.

Tyrus was traded for Flip Murray, Acie Law and a protected, future first-round draft choice. Are you saying that the Bulls preferred Al over the Bobcats package?

Yeah, I think the Bulls just preferred the Bobcats offer more than ours. I cannot imagine Walsh was hanging on to Al Harrington. We needed a Thomas-type player more than Harrington.