(07-22-2023, 01:07 AM)F Gump Wrote: ... when I could 
1 enter FA and 
2 potentially go to a better team

Those 2 points tend to be mutually exclusive. 

If Siakam gets traded to ATL (or anywhere else), he'd better learn to love them, because that's where his best payday is almost certainly coming from. And top free agents work hard because they want top money.

The team that has Siakam when his contract expires can go over the cap to pay him what it takes. Any other team cannot. In fact, top teams with top talent tend to be dancing with the tax line and the apron, and don't have any cap room at all, when they would need to be 45-50M or so under the cap (not under tax or apron, but under the cap) to be able to offer him the contract he wants.

Harden seemed to have that same conundrum this summer. He wanted to be elsewhere, but the only team possible was a sucky one. So he decided not to be a FA after all, and instead signed his option to play for Philly and then started whining on how he hates it there. FA was not the avenue for him to get the money he wants and also get to the team he wants. If Morey sticks to his guns, Harden will again have the very same choices next summer, the ones he hates now, because good teams aren't likely to have big cap room to sign a top FA. IMO

(07-21-2023, 04:03 PM)Mavs2021 Wrote: There are worse places to live than Monte Carlo. With no personal income tax, he probably gets paid close to the NBA minimum to play twice a week.

(07-24-2023, 07:59 AM)HoosierDaddyKid Wrote: https://twitter.com/KeithSmithNBA/status/1683102979363164160



Chicago will be a tax team this year.  BTW, Twitter changed the blue bird logo to "X"  WTF?

(07-24-2023, 08:10 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: Probably a long shot given he left the NBA on his own terms because he wanted his family to grow up in Europe, but in the case he does want to come back to the NBA, does anyone have interest in Nikola Mirotic?



Barca just terminated his contract and they said they have no interest in bringing him back. 99 out of 100 times he's going to stay in the Euroleague but who knows?

(07-24-2023, 08:10 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: Probably a long shot given he left the NBA on his own terms because he wanted his family to grow up in Europe, but in the case he does want to come back to the NBA, does anyone have interest in Nikola Mirotic?



Barca just terminated his contract and they said they have no interest in bringing him back. 99 out of 100 times he's going to stay in the Euroleague but who knows?

(07-24-2023, 07:45 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: Interesting..if true

https://twitter.com/OptimistWolves/status/1683605268309975042?s=20

(07-24-2023, 07:53 PM)Chicagojk Wrote: I don’t buy this at all but it just Shows you that you can never get complacent as a gm.  The ground is always shifting.

https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1683521635456884737?s=20

(07-25-2023, 10:23 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: Marc J. Spears
@MarcJSpears
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18m
Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics have agreed on a five-year supermax extension worth up to $304 million, the richest contract in NBA history, his agent Jason Glushon of @GlushonSM tells ESPN.

(07-25-2023, 10:30 AM)KillerLeft Wrote: They had to do it. I would've done it. 

Not entirely sure that's going to work out for them, however.

(07-25-2023, 10:33 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: https://twitter.com/BobbyMarks42/status/1683856580188545025?s=20

Bobby Marks (@BobbyMarks42)
Here is the breakdown on the Jaylen Brown super max extension in Boston:

2024-2025 $52,368,085

2025-2026 $56,557,532

2026-2027 $60,746,979

2027-2028 $64,936,425

2028-2029 $69,125,872

Total $303,734,893



This is going to be the worst contract in the NBA starting next year.