Carlos Boozer to a 6 year 66mm$ per ESPN News. Wow, pure luck for the Nets so far and Cleveland with what I would call the dumbest move of the last 10 years. they had this guy under contract for 600,000 and couldve negotiated any deal at any point and now will have 0000 chance of re-signing him. If they had a number 1 pick in the draft, it would STILL be hard to find someone as good as Carlos Boozer on any given year. What a disaster.

Holy smokes, what absolute idiots.

Kirk Snyder from the draft, and then Okur and Boozer in FA added to Kirilenko. A young, talented team.

Cleveland, absolutely insane. How do you mess this up? LeBron and Boozer, why would they do this? Inexplicable.

Wait a minute...Utah is considering to offer Boozer this contract, they still haven't offered it (I haven't seen any update on the espn website yet). Even if they do offer it, Boozer still has to choose whether to go to Utah for the money (which is most likely) or go back to Cleveland for the MLE at 6 years. So nothing is completed yet. However, Cleveland is still dumb for doing this and they probably will lose him.

Lol, ok just saw ESPN News, Boozer and the Utah Jazz have in fact come to terms so Cleveland basically cannot match since they don't have the money. Boozer is now part of the Utah Jazz, lol it took me awhile to confirm that

Here is a link http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/index
On the upper right hand you can see the breaking news thing which shows that Boozer has agreed to sign the offer sheet.

So it is official, Boozer is about to join the Utah Jazz


Good news for us, horrible news for Cavs fans

[Edited by - s3231 on 07/08/2004 17:32:58]

They overpayed for Okur and really didn't change much else. Drafted Kirk Snyder? They're still a middle-of-the-pack team in the West, the big news here is that Cleveland lost Boozer, not Utah obtained him.

How would the Knicks rebuild MX? Are you going to buy-out Houston, Shandon, Eisley, Weatherspoon, Van Horn, etc.? No. That's the dumbest argument around, the possibility of rebuilding was never a reality in your sense of the word -- clearing cap space.

The Knicks really have rebuilt on the fly when you look at it. Next year the following people will make contributions to the Knicks: Marbury, Mohammed, Sweetney, Williams, Tim Thomas, DerMarr Johnson, Ariza, and probably Crawford or an MLE signee. All will be under 30.

first off, i still cannot believe what Clev did-- and what they did was they tried to be cheap on the sly but it still boggles my mind. How about signing booz before pre-season starts to an extension and have him play the year at 600,000--EVEN if they gave him something like 5 years 50mm[because he couldnt have turned that money down with the possibility of injury and next years FA will not even be close to this years] they dilute the contract to 6 years 55.6 which is roughly 9mm per year--which wouldve saved them money and they wouldve kept the player for the same period of time!!!!!!! thye can wake up tomorrow and say well we were acting in good faith-NO no you werent you were trying to give him some money this year in a DUMB attempt to get a cheap long term deal!

What I would do if I am Clev is start looking for teams who may be interested in Luke Jackson and Diop as a pair who are under the cap and sell them for free to get my stud front line player back! they are going to take it up the arse 1 way or the other, but id rather have the big man who rebounds and is 22 years old!

as for utah utah has done as good a job rebuilding a team that i have ever seen. They were better than any Eastern team with the exception of the top 3+ they went over .500 and hung on till the end for aplayoff spot when they were talking about winning 15 games.

They drafted BIG athletic solid strong players and they signed big athletic strong players+ they are still under the cap+ have 2-3 first round picks for the next 3 years running! Helluva job! i GUARANTEE the jazz will be in the playoffs next year. EASY

what kind of deal could the cavs pull with sign and trade boozer+ z-man
plus wagner + first round for you know who ...yup

Posted by BigSm00th:

They overpayed for Okur and really didn't change much else. Drafted Kirk Snyder? They're still a middle-of-the-pack team in the West, the big news here is that Cleveland lost Boozer, not Utah obtained him.

How would the Knicks rebuild MX? Are you going to buy-out Houston, Shandon, Eisley, Weatherspoon, Van Horn, etc.? No. That's the dumbest argument around, the possibility of rebuilding was never a reality in your sense of the word -- clearing cap space.

The Knicks really have rebuilt on the fly when you look at it. Next year the following people will make contributions to the Knicks: Marbury, Mohammed, Sweetney, Williams, Tim Thomas, DerMarr Johnson, Ariza, and probably Crawford or an MLE signee. All will be under 30.

excellent post smooth, the cavs really blew this one, but really Utah got a very good player,not a player that is going to take them to the next level, and them adding okur and snyder does not scare anyone, right now if the knicks pull off this crawford deal and sign a big, I would say we would have had the best offseason possible...

Jazz: Boozer stolen from Cleveland

The News
ESPN's David Aldridge is reporting that free agent forward Carlos Boozer—who reportedly committed verbally to resigning in Cleveland—has reneged on that agreement and signed with the Utah Jazz for $68 million over six years. The Cavs recently relinquished their rights to Boozer for next season, in which they would have paid him the league-minimum $695,000, on the faith that he would not explore free agency. The parties had arranged to compensate Boozer with the full midlevel exception, which would have paid the third-year power forward approximately $40 million over six years. Boozer averaged 15.5 points and 11.7 rebounds per game last season.
Our View
Apparently, Boozer and his agent were blown away by the sums of cash being doled out for middling talent like Adonal Foyle and Rafer Alston and decided they couldn't pass up what amounts to an extra $28 million. Because Boozer is a restricted free agent, Cleveland in theory will have the opportunity to match this offer from Utah, but the full midlevel exception is the best they can do without creating additional cap space by dealing other players. Carlos had a huge fantasy season in 2003 and certainly emerged as a productive complement to LeBron James. However, his challenge in Utah will be to maintain those numbers despite a deeper team with more offensive weapons. His rebounding totals should hold steady, but we're not optimistic about his scoring potential.

http://www.fanball.com/ph/newsbreakers.cfm

Posted by TMS:

Posted by ToddTT:

[quote]Posted by TMS:

that's good news for us...the Cavs will stink so badly over the next few years that Lebron is bound to demand a trade to NY.

Holy crap you're right. Man, we are gonna be awesome when we have Marbury, Houston, Crawford, Vince Carter, and Lebron!

rofl