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NBA Offseason Thread 2009 - Page 12
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KOFgokuon
United States14912 Posts
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tenbagger
United States1289 Posts
On June 24 2009 23:51 il0seonpurpose wrote: Minnesota has so many picks for tomorrow, they traded Mike Miller and Randy Foye to the Wizards for the 5th pick and they already had the 6th. They also have the 18th, 28th, 45th and 47th. I actually like that move. It's not like they were gonna get anywhere with miller and foye so might as well rebuild with a higher upside rook. Yeah this draft is looking weak but you never know how it will turn out until serveral years later. Minny has a solid frontcourt nucleus and since this draft is heavy on guards, if they can get just one or two of their picks to pan out, they have the makings of a decent team. | ||
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il0seonpurpose
Korea (South)5638 Posts
And are buyouts when teams pay their players or their former team's the amount in their contract? About Jennings, the guy from high school that went to Italy and now is in the draft; most teams aren't sure if they're willing to buy him out of his former team in Europe but I wasn't sure what that meant. | ||
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72AND10
United States93 Posts
On June 25 2009 00:04 KOFgokuon wrote: nice to have picks in a shitty shitty fucking draft that sucks a lot of balls ... Fixed. But their goal apparently is to package the 5th and 18th pick and trade it for the 2nd pick. I don't know who would trade their 2nd pick for the 5th and 18th because the draft takes a dip after #1 and pretty much a freefall after #5 when looking at talent. I personally wouldn't even trade the #2 pick for a #5/#6 package. But the Wolves also picked up crappy contracts and scrubs in Oleksiy Pecherov, Etan Thomas and Darius Songaila. In any event, they better execute their plan and trade up to get themselves in position so they can grab the highest pick. | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14912 Posts
On June 25 2009 00:55 il0seonpurpose wrote: I also forgot to mention that Wizards gave three of their players, mostly bigger men. So 3 players from Wizards, 5 picks from the draft. That's already 8 players and their roster plus 10 guys after giving away 2 so they have a total of 18 players. They're going to have to alot of cutting. And are buyouts when teams pay their players or their former team's the amount in their contract? About Jennings, the guy from high school that went to Italy and now is in the draft; most teams aren't sure if they're willing to buy him out of his former team in Europe but I wasn't sure what that meant. Players can agree to terminate their contracts for an amount of money that they negotiate with the team. It can be the full salary (rarely) or less than full (usually, especially when the player is gonna sign somewhere else very quickly). Basically, in order to terminate, jennings has some sort of clause in his contract that he (or the team that drafts him) must pay 200,000 to his former team. | ||
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HonestTea
5007 Posts
On June 25 2009 00:40 tenbagger wrote: I actually like that move. It's not like they were gonna get anywhere with miller and foye so might as well rebuild with a higher upside rook. Yeah this draft is looking weak but you never know how it will turn out until serveral years later. Minny has a solid frontcourt nucleus and since this draft is heavy on guards, if they can get just one or two of their picks to pan out, they have the makings of a decent team. Agreed. As a 2008-2009 Mike Miller fantasy owner, I can tell you with certainty that Mike Miller was not a good fit on the Wolves. I honestly do think they might be better with Gomes as starting SF, plus Corey Brewer is coming back, so who knows. Bassy - Rodney Carney - Brewer - Big Al - Big Love ... ok so that's still a very crappy roster, but what if: 5th pick - 6th pick - Brewer - Big Al - Big Love with Bassy and Gomes fron the bench? ... ok that's still not a playoff team. ... yet. | ||
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BooBoogers
United States229 Posts
On June 24 2009 12:52 HonestTea wrote: PS: Boozer is not "somewhere good" That depends on what side your on. We (Jazz fans) would love you for taking Boozer off our hands.  | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14912 Posts
i love bill simmons http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090624&sportCat=nba holy shit that's ridiculous i knew they were bad...but THIS bad?! | ||
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72AND10
United States93 Posts
"They messed with the Indians. And you don't mess with the Indians. Ever." | ||
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Ace
United States16096 Posts
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tiffany
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tonight
United States11130 Posts
On June 25 2009 04:57 Ace wrote: You never know how this draft will pan out though - look at last year's draft. That's one of the best draft classes in like the past 20 years (top 6, 7) for sure based on just 1 year of production. These are some simple facts | ||
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tenbagger
United States1289 Posts
Poll: Worst Draft of the Decade? (Vote): 2008 (Vote): 2007 (Vote): 2006 (Vote): 2005 (Vote): 2004 (Vote): 2003 (Vote): 2002 (Vote): 2001 2008 1 - Derrick Rose 2 - Michael Beasley 3 - OJ Mayo 4 - Russell Westbrook 5 - Kevin Love 6 - Danilo Galinari 7 - Eric Gordon 8 - Joe Alexander 9 - DJ Augustin 10 - Brook Lopez Other Notables 14 - Anthony Randolph 25 - Nicolas Batum 27 - Darrell Arthur 34 - Mario Chalmers 35 - DeAndre Jordan 2007 1- Greg Oden 2 - Kevin Durant 3 - Al Horford 4 - Mike Conley 5 - Jeff Green 6 - YI Jianlian 7 - Corey Brewer 8 - Brandan Wright 9 - Joakim Noah 10 - Spencer Hawes Other Notables: 14 - Al Thornton 15 - Rodney Stuckey 23 - Wilson Chandler 24 - Rudy Fernandez 26 - Aaron Brooks 2006 1 - Andrea Bargnani 2 - LaMarcus Aldridge 3 - Adam Morrison 4 - Tyrus Thomas 5 - Shelden Williams 6 - Brandon Roy 7 - Randy Foye 8 - Rudy Gay 9 - Patrick O Bryant 10 - Saer Sene Other Notables: 14 - Ronnie Brewer 21 - Rajon Rondo 26 - Jordan Farmar 42 - Daniel Gibson 47 - Paul Millsap 2005 1 - Andrew Bogut 2 - Marvin Williams 3 - Deron Williams 4 - Chris Paul 5 - Raymond Felton 6 - Martell Webster 7 - Charlie Villanueva 8 - Channing Frye 9 - Ike Diogu 10 - Andrew Bynum Other Notables: 17 - Danny Granger 21 - Nate Robinson 26 - Jason Maxiell 30 - David Lee 57 - Marcin Gortat Honorable HT Mention goes to AMIR JOHNSON @ 56 2004 1 - Dwight Howard 2 - Emeka Okafor 3 - Ben Gordon 4 - Shaun Livingston 5 - Devin Harris 6 - Josh Childress 7 - Luol Deng 8 - Rafael Araujo 9 - Andre Iguodala 10 - Luke Jackson Other Notables: 11 - Andris Biedrins 15 - Al Jefferson 17 - Josh Smith 26 - Kevin Martin 43 - Trevor Ariza 2003 1 - Lebron James 2 - Darko Milicic 3 - Carmelo Anthony 4 - Chris Bosh 5 - Dwayne Wade 6 - Chris Kaman 7 - Kirk Hinrich 8 - TJ Ford 9 - Mike Sweetney 10 - Jarvis Hayes Other Notables: 18 - David West 21 - Boris Diaw 28 - Leandro Barbosa 29 - Josh Howard 38 - Steve Blake 2002 1 - Yao Ming 2 - Jason Williams 3 - Mike Dunleavy 4 - Drew Gooden 5 - Nikoloz Tskitishvili 6 - Dajuan Wagner 7 - Nene Hilario 8 - Chris Wilcox 9 - Amare Stoudemire 10 - Caron Butler Other Notables: 23 - Tayshaun Prince 24 - Nenad Krstic 26 - John Salmons 34 - Carlos Boozer 55 - Luis Scola 2001 1 - Kwame Brown 2 - Tyson Chandler 3 - Pau Gasol 4 - Eddy Curry 5 - Jason Richardson 6 - Shane Battier 7 - Eddie Griffin 8 - DeSagana Diop 9 - Rodney White 10 - Joe Johnson Other Notables: 13 - Richard Jefferson 19 - Zach Randolph 25 - Gerald Wallace 28 - Tony Parker 37 - Mehmet Okur | ||
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tenbagger
United States1289 Posts
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
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Ace
United States16096 Posts
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bdams19
United States1316 Posts
Roy, Aldridge, Rondo.... drop off. Somehow the Blazers ended up with the talent from 06 with Roy and Aldridge (through great trades no less), but Rudy Gay looked primed to have a career year until Mayo and Conley came his way. Tyrus Thomas is a freak of an athlete and should be a solid player next year (stop me if you've ever heard that before lol). Other than Roy, there really are no super stars in this draft but there is ton of potential in Gay, Thomas, Bargnani, Brewer, and Millsap. | ||
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
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bdams19
United States1316 Posts
Yao, Butler, Amare, Boozer, Tayshaun and to a lesser extent Nene and Salmons (who both had solid years this past season) | ||
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HonestTea
5007 Posts
It's just a brutal draft. Remember, Mike Miller ROY. [edit] Honorable HT Mention goes to AMIR JOHNSON @ 56 Thanks, Tenbagger. I knew you were looking out for me. Although I don't like his chances under Skiles. | ||
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