The Official 2015 NBA Free Agency/Off-Season Thread

N

NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong

Veteran
Supporter
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
46,320
Reputation
5,850
Daps
93,967
Reppin
Uncertain grounds
GoddamnyamanProf said:
Who would've guessed that Vlade's greatest flop ever would be in the role of general manager? :smugkid:
Click to expand...

winstonpointmedium-png.6342



Leasy said:
I will expect something during the season unless Rockets or any other team comes with a group of players he wants. This team can easily win 30 to 35 games in the east with no PG
Click to expand...


cheers-gif.4961


FOH

stauskas leading the way on 25ppg

nik1-gif.5166
 
Darealtwo1

Darealtwo1

Veteran
WOAT
Joined
Jan 9, 2014
Messages
26,709
Reputation
-8,940
Daps
87,400
SchoolboyC said:
Their front office wanted Vonleh, but Vivek overruled them and made them take Stauskas because he saw the YouTube video of Stauskas hitting 46 straight 3's on his backyard court :francis:

Not even fukking joking
Click to expand...

Stauskas?!?! Stauskas?!?!? Stauskas?!?!?!

:pachaha:

I love grantland mane
 
duckbutta

duckbutta

eienaar van mans
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
38,725
Reputation
10,100
Daps
148,987
Reppin
DFW
Random 1st day thoughts...

- Somebody get Boogie out of there :mjcry:... @Malta it's killing me to see a borderline transcendent big man just waste away on a team where the GM DOESN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THE RULES...

- All this "this team really impressed Aldridge talk" is just a smoke screen...it's bad business for his camp to come out and say "we not signing to so and so" because every time they do they lose a little leverage...realistically only two teams can really sign him...Portland if he cares about the money but they gutted their team so bad they will struggle to make the 8th seed...and SA cause they are the only legit championship caliber team built to win pretty much as long as Duncan plays and Pop coaches...Phoenix and Houston are going to have to give up 3 of their top 5 players in a sign and trade which just about kills their championship chances (houston) or playoff chances (phoenix)...

Dallas or the Clippers are going to be SUPREMELY fukkED when DJ picks one and not the other...this is no other rim protector, rebounder, or post defender near Deandre's level available and both of these teams completely fall apart on the defense end without one...Dirk is going to get dunked into early retirment and good lord at the clippers replacing Deandre with more minutes from big baby and maybe keindrick perkins...Whoever doesn't get him probably goes after Hibbert and get's fleeced by Larry legend for what few assets they still have...

- :whew: at the southwest division and the league in general ducking a Davis / Chandler pairing...Pelicans kept both bigs that should have had an easy job of picking up AD scraps last year but neither one of them could do it consistently...Chandler would have been :damn: doing nothing but getting offensive rebounds and catching lobs around the rim...

- If the Spurs get Aldridge that means the Hawks helped the Spurs remain a championship contender and the Spurs in return gave the Hawks an alternate reality version of the front court they won a title with last year :mjlol:...Spurs are on the cusp of turning an injury prone habitually posterized center into a top 5 pf...:wow:

- Can't do anything but :salute: Bron fleecing Gilbert and building the best possible team Cleveland can...and will ever...have...

- Draymond almost fukked up his money cause no other team is going to value what he does more than the Warriors...I am pretty sure after a few calls his agent told him "take that fukking deal with GS right now before they find out what so and so offered us:damn:"

- Greg Monroe is about to become the most effortless 'max" paid big of all time...he literally doesn't have to do anything but wait for Aldridge and Jordan to sign

- Monta Ellis and Matt Barnes have the worst agents in sports...

- Vivek is about to get a rule named after him in the next CBA along the lines of "You can't trade a 1st round pick so many years into the future while you already have another 1st round pick traded so many years into the future"...this rule was coming any way they are just going to erase Billy King name and replace it with Vivek's...
 
Houston911

Houston911

Super Moderator
Staff member
Supporter
Joined
Apr 30, 2012
Messages
46,765
Reputation
13,650
Daps
197,747
if matthews is healthy thats a good look for sactown

he is the perfect role player

how much can you frontload a contract?

like if you give a guy 4 years 40 mil, could you break it down

year 1 - 14 mil
year 2 - 11 mil
year 3 - 8 mil
year 4 - 7 mil

how much is reggie jackson gonna get? he's looking like he might be a steal.
 
Regular_P

Regular_P

Just end the season.
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
78,856
Reputation
9,823
Daps
212,203
Silver needs to force Vivek to sell like he did Sterling. It's the only thing that can save that franchise. :manny:
 
N

NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong

Veteran
Supporter
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
46,320
Reputation
5,850
Daps
93,967
Reppin
Uncertain grounds
@duckbutta re:draft picks

http://www.cbafaq.com/salarycap.htm#Q87

stepien beat vivek to it

The "Seven Year Rule" allows teams to trade draft picks up to seven years into the future (for example, if this is the 2011-12 season, then a 2018 pick can be traded, but a 2019 pick cannot). It is common to "protect" picks depending on their position (for example, "we keep it if it ends up in the lottery, otherwise you get it"), although no more than 55 picks in a single draft can be protected (for example, a top-55 protected pick is legal, but a top-56 protected pick is not). This helps to avoid a repeat of some unfortunate past trades, such as the trade between the Cavs and Lakers where LA received what turned out to be the first overall pick in the 1982 draft, which they used to select James Worthy. It is common for these protections to relax over several years. For example, a team might convey its own pick in the first draft in which it is not a protected pick, where a protected pick is defined as picks 1-14 in 2012; 1-10 in 2013; 1-6 in 2014; and unprotected in 2015. If the team owns one of the protected picks in 2012, 2013 or 2014, then they keep it; otherwise it is conveyed to the other team. If they make it to 2015 without having conveyed a pick, then the other team gets their 2015 pick unconditionally.

Teams are restricted from trading away future first round draft picks in consecutive years. This is known as the "Ted Stepien Rule." Stepien owned the Cavs from 1980-83, and made a series of bad trades (such as the 1982 trade mentioned above) that cost the Cavs several years' first round picks. As a result of Stepien's ineptitude, teams are now prevented from making trades which might leave them without a first round pick in consecutive future years.

The Stepien rule applies only to future first round picks. For example, if this is the 2011-12 season, then a team can trade its 2012 first round pick without regard to whether they had traded their 2011 pick, since their 2011 pick is no longer a future pick. But they can't trade away both their 2012 and 2013 picks, since both are future picks. Teams sometimes work around this rule by trading first round picks in alternate years, or by giving one team the right to swap picks with the other.

When dealing with protected picks, the Stepien rule is interpreted to mean that teams can't trade a pick if there is any chance it will leave the team without a first round pick in consecutive future drafts. Suppose a team makes a trade in 2011-12 that conveys a first round pick sometime from 2012 to 2017. The pick is protected only if it is the first overall pick from 2012 to 2017, and if it is not conveyed by 2017, the other team gets cash instead. In other words, in order to avoid sending a pick from 2012 to 2016, the team would have to win the first overall pick in the draft lottery five seasons in a row. Even though the likelihood of this happening is essentially nil, the team is not allowed to trade its 2018 pick.

If a team trades two future first round picks and the first pick is protected, then the first pick would be conveyed in the first draft in which it is not a protected pick (as described above), and the second pick would be conveyed in the first allowable draft (per the Stepien rule) in which that pick is not protected (i.e., two years after the first pick). But since both picks must be conveyed within seven years, the protection on the first pick cannot last longer than four years (i.e., the first pick must be conveyed by the fifth year). A team can have no more than one trade with such a waiting period in effect at any time.
Click to expand...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top