http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1837761





Wow, as much as I like Antonio, I hope he screws Detroit hard.

I hope his knee blows up and he blows up their cap.

Horrible deal, reminiscent of Mourning to the Nets.

wow, that's a huge gamble by dumars but with his luck, it'll probably work out for him.

secondly, i GUARANTEE that all the isiah haters would be bashing the hell out of zeke if he gave the same deal to dice.

Hell, I would bash Isiah too if he gave that kind of a contract to Mcdyess. That would just be too big of a risk for us. The Pistons however, can do it because they just won the championship.

Not much of a replacement for Okur (lose a guy who is potentially on his way up, for a guy definitely on his way down) and for way more money than Dyess is worth. Still, he's a good guy it seems and it's nice to see him get paid well to play for the champs, after all the frustration he's gone through.

Still, maybe Dumars is banking on Darko to be good enough to offset loss of Okur and share minutes with Dyess.

Some of you youngsters out there wonder why Shandon Anderson gets paid all that money, well you're seeing it now. Guys like Foyle and Okur and Cardinal getting huge pay days. Of course, if one of them breaks out huge, then the GM who paid him is a freaking genius. If they take the money and relax, get complacent, or just doesn't get better, you end up with an overpaid guy who you can't get rid of until his contract runs out, and everyone wonders "which idiot GM did this?!"

Shandon Anderson is still making money off his early years in Utah, because the team went to the finals twice. Someone decided he's the next Clyde Drexler or something (even though he missed crucial layups in the Finals, a la Charles Smith), paid him big time, and he never got much better.

I'm sure one of these "gettin' paid" guys this season will prove their worth, but not all of them. Odds are, most of them will not get much better than they already are, and they'll become part of those wonderful "bad for bad" trades we all love.

With a deal like that, Dyess either retires a Piston or ends his career at the end of some other team's bench getting big money, like Mugsy Bogues. I just don't see the guy being much better than he was this past season.

Ha ha. I think Joe has some insurance if he keeps Sheed on the team. This deal won't wreck the team, but it's still not a very good deal.

Hey, and maybe Dyess finally has his comeback performance, proves me wrong. We're still waiting.

Posted by Bonn1997:

According to realgm, it's 4 yrs $23 mil with the 5th year being a team option.

It is 4 yrs and $23 million but it can go up to 5 years and $30 million if Dyess plays up to 60 games in the previous season.

Posted by Bobby:

wow.....this must be another dumars blunder

You said it. Maybe one day he'll figure out how to run a team. Sheesh, is he clueless or what?

wait a doggone minute now....did dumars just get a discount? hey, dice just rolled in at 23 mil for 4 years. joe just saved 7 mil! and i recall the max he was going to offer memo was 40 mil. this now equates to a total of 17 mil!

.....whoa, dumars has to be in his own league