10-24-2022, 02:12 PM
(10-24-2022, 01:02 PM)F Gump Wrote: It's all interesting theory. None of it sounds practical or even remotely possible to me, however -- just not envisioning Cuban being persuaded to pay 75M in tax, or getting players whose teams want to keep them and don't have them on the market (for a bucket of random poo), or buying players for a cheap price then flipping them for something way bigger.I get it, it’s not your idea so it’s not practical or remotely possible. If you are right and Cuban is no longer going to be sold a vision for the sole reason of cost, then I will truly be done with the team until he sells it. If he is going to be Robert Sarver, he should go the way of Robert Sarver!
Buying players for a cheap price is how we got Wood, Chandler, Marion, Butler, Haywood and Stevenson. While finding those deals aren’t easy, we just have to find the right one. There was a report that MJ was looking to cut salary once the news about Bridges came out. It may be fake news, but we have no idea about that. The deal with Cha cuts $50M of salary off their books. That’s a lot of money, I mean, you’re the KING of proposing those type deals.
The deal for OG is also situational. Last year he reportedly asked out because he wanted a bigger role. If it’s fake news, that doesn’t HAVE to be the deal, he’s just to me, the player we should target if we can put together a package of assets the Raptors would bite on. The talk did die down, but there was no reported resolution nor has he really gained a much bigger role for the team. Maybe the deal would be Rozier (or SD) and Maxi (since they’re looking for a big) for OG and the right amount of unnecessary (to them) salary filler.
You say a bucket of random poo…I didn’t know you thought that’s what our players are. Says a lot about your rah, rah speeches about who we are, and your posts defending our players.