EPTNBA Offseason 2014 - Page 29
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
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DystopiaX
United States16236 Posts
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
On July 10 2014 05:21 DystopiaX wrote: Top 10 protection till 2019 then unrestricted. Just in time for them to be a lottery team again its unrestricted! | ||
XaI)CyRiC
United States4471 Posts
On July 10 2014 04:32 MassHysteria wrote: And you guys probably follow the writers who tweeted it, but the Livingston article was pretty good. Great writeup for a deserving player. I can't imagine how hard it was to recover from that type of injury so early in his career, particularly considering how good he was getting right before it happened. The psychological aspect of trusting that knee enough to really test it and push it to recover some of his burst and athleticism after what he had been through is unimaginable. I hope everything works out well for him in GS. | ||
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MassHysteria
United States3678 Posts
On July 10 2014 05:57 XaI)CyRiC wrote: Great writeup for a deserving player. I can't imagine how hard it was to recover from that type of injury so early in his career, particularly considering how good he was getting right before it happened. The psychological aspect of trusting that knee enough to really test it and push it to recover some of his burst and athleticism after what he had been through is unimaginable. I hope everything works out well for him in GS. Ya, I agree. Specially because we (as LA residents) got to see him so young and might still remember the excitement of him being around here as a rookie. Then that ugly injury, that I still could only watch once (and turned my head away), just made everyone feel like we had just witnessed a tragic ending to a young player's career. The best part about the writeup (that I noticed unconsciously at first) was that it somehow felt unfinished when I was done reading it. And that's because Livingston still has to write the ending himself out there. Good job by the writer. | ||
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
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RowdierBob
Australia13297 Posts
This isn't turning out well for Houston... | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
On July 10 2014 08:20 RowdierBob wrote: Parsons now signed for $15 mill per o_O This isn't turning out well for Houston... I am really surprised it took this long for a Western Conf contender to do that. Its like a no brainer to try and force Houston's hand. | ||
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seiferoth10
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TheMusiC
United States1054 Posts
also this is probably obvious, but this means they also now only have 3 days to officially trade asik and lin you have to think morey has a plan here, there's no way this catches him off guard. he's too smart for that | ||
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seiferoth10
3362 Posts
Edit: Even if Parsons signs the offer, his cap hold for the Rockets is 900k, or whatever peanuts his salary was last year, for the three days. | ||
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Doraemon
Australia14949 Posts
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
On July 10 2014 08:02 Jerubaal wrote: If Melo is going to announce his decision soon, does that mean Lebron has already decided? i think cleveland made its moves with knowledge of what lebron is going to do but i have no basis for this. but melo is gonna get his money | ||
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DystopiaX
United States16236 Posts
On July 10 2014 09:16 oneofthem wrote: i think cleveland made its moves with knowledge of what lebron is going to do but it has no basis. but melo is gonna get his money I think Melo is at a tier where his decisions aren't really affected by Lebron's. As far as I can tell Lebron is deciding between the Heat and Cleveland and Melo isn't looking to go to either team. What the Parsons thing says to me is that Dallas struck out on all the big free agents and knows it, which is obviously the point at which the Parsons-tier free agents are gonna be signed. Decisions on Melo/big 3 gonna come real soon I think. | ||
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zev318
Canada4306 Posts
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TheMusiC
United States1054 Posts
On July 10 2014 09:42 zev318 wrote: there was no reason to sign this offer other than "fuck the rockets" by parsons. i dont think there was any advantage to signing it now vs waiting for lebron/melo to decide. i don't think so. parsons has a very good relationship both with the team and with morey. everything that's been reported points to him really wanting to stay with the team. i think him signing is more dallas saying "if you don't sign now, we're pulling the offer." if he really had time to wait, he would have! but $45m is a lot of money, especially for a guy who was just making 900k a year, and if he didn't sign this one there's no guarantee that he'd get the same amount elsewhere (even thru negotiating an extension with the rockets). sometimes you just gotta look out for yourself first. | ||
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zev318
Canada4306 Posts
On July 10 2014 09:48 TheMusiC wrote: i don't think so. parsons has a very good relationship both with the team and with morey. everything that's been reported points to him really wanting to stay with the team. i think him signing is more dallas saying "if you don't sign now, we're pulling the offer." if he really had time to wait, he would have! but $45m is a lot of money, especially for a guy who was just making 900k a year, and if he didn't sign this one there's no guarantee that he'd get the same amount elsewhere (even thru negotiating an extension with the rockets). sometimes you just gotta look out for yourself first. i think he would have gotten a close to max from someone, basically anyone that misses on lebron/melo would have been in on it. but ya i understand what you're saying, he does guarantee himself his pay day | ||
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DystopiaX
United States16236 Posts
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zev318
Canada4306 Posts
On July 10 2014 09:51 DystopiaX wrote: Especially because Rockets are clearing cap space to get a bigger name which would leave them without any cap room to sign him. Parsons doesn't owe the Rockets anything and I don't even think this was a "fuck you" move. the rockets can go over the cap to sign parsons to whatever number they want. you can go over the cap to sign your own players. | ||
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Ace
United States16096 Posts
come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn! | ||
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