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[omahen]

Thanks.  My biggest fear is they don't have any trade lined up for Hardaway or others.  Or at least legit things in motion.  Hardaway is a good/solid player.   I wouldn't call it a win just to get off of him without that leading to a similar level player.

I am also worried that we are just waiting and hoping on restricted free agents.  

I want to hope they got things in the works, but that brings me back to previous summers where it ended in disappointment.

Regarding Bamba, I may be in favor of giving him a smaller contract than Thybulle at the full MLE.  But I really haven't thought much about it.   If the Mavs are fans of his (or at least what he could be), I am sure they can wink wink him that we would have minutes for him.  I guess what I am saying is he would be an interesting low cost gamble.

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So, I was brave enough to bring up "hard cap" in a fourth of July gathering last night despite not knowing what it means.  I have not been brave enough to bring up DroppingDimes20 yet

I really don't understand Bamba fascination on part of this board (not related to you specifically). Orlando didn't think he has it to be kept long term. He couldn't crack Lakers rotation and they obviously didn't want to keep him at 10 mil, clearly signalling how high opinion they have about him. On a personal note, I was never impressed watching him play. Similar to Wood he can shoot a three and block a shot, but terribly out of position on defense all the time. Not capable of switching on faster players. So, without a doubt from my perspective, he is not the starter material we need and likely not better than any of the crap centers we already have. He is not the solution we need. I don't care if we give him vet min to be the third or fourth center (behind the starting centre, Lively and then competing with Powell for remaining minutes). But with all the centers on the team, it would seem to be just a wasted roster spot. 

Mavs need to find a starting centre, clear roster of wasted contracts and roster spots (McGee, likely Holmes), than I guess we discuss the likes of Bamba.