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FAH1223 said:
October 2012...

OKC wanted to give Harden a 4 year $55 million extension... which was about $5 million less than the max of $60 million at the time.

Harden wanted the extra few million. OKC then immediately traded him to HOU where he got his max and was also designated the franchise player so he ended up signing for the extra year (5 years $80 million max)
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Have you seen this quote? :lupe:

J Michael:
@Rajat You make a plan and you see it through. You don't change it every 5 minutes because of a whim. I mention the Sacramento Kings for a reason. That's what a franchise looks like when they have no direction. .... The Wizards know already that Durant has them in their top 2 destinations if he leaves OKC. No one can say anything publicly b/c it would result in a massive fine for "tampering." So you plan to land him -- and you always have a plan b, c & d in case you don't -- but the fact is you have your core of Wall, Beal, Porter & Gortat under contract when he's a FA. And you have a massive amount of cash to throw at him. ... The Wizards planned on Ariza returning, he didn't. So Pierce was their Plan B. Not a bad Plan B at all. They got him, benefited greatly from him, didn't tie themselves up long term in the process. I'd say the plan they've instituted has worked so far. There's only detriment if you set a plan of this nature in place for KD and then start spending money carelessly to handicap yourself in what you're able to offer in 2016
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nieman said:
This has been the craziest offseason I have ever witnessed. You some players receiving 2M per statistical output, and at the same time you have equally statistcal players receiving a fraction of that. I'm baffled at the Jim McIlvaine equivalent $$$.

If Javale McGee gets $10M per....
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McGee was making 12million per before the salary cap increase, that's how dumb the nuggets were :snoop:
 
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Black said:
Have you seen this quote? :lupe:
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Yeah... i still dont trust J Michael

HoopLife said:
McGee was making 12million per before the salary cap increase, that's how dumb the nuggets were :snoop:
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Masai paid Nene $65 million over 5 years a few months before... then traded him after buyer's remorse, then signed Javale

I guess they thought at 24, he would improve
 
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Keeping him away from SA would be the bigger benefit for them. Makes sense.
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If I am any team with championship aspirations I am snatching up West just so the spurs can't have him...

He goes to the Spurs and they are going to have an unstoppable 4 headed monster frontcourt...

They can go twin tower with Duncan and LMA and kill you...

They can go small ball Diaw and West and kill you...

They can mix and match the two...

If I am Atlanta, OKC, GS, Cle, I am doing everything I can to get him cause if the Spurs do...your front court is toast...

Poor Deandre signed on with the Mavs and he might spend 4 games a year guarding these 4 dudes by himself cause Dirk sure as hell is not going to help him get it done defensively
 
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duckbutta said:
If I am any team with championship aspirations I am snatching up West just so the spurs can't have him...

He goes to the Spurs and they are going to have an unstoppable 4 headed monster frontcourt...

They can go twin tower with Duncan and LMA and kill you...

They can go small ball Diaw and West and kill you...

They can mix and match the two...

If I am Atlanta, OKC, GS, Cle, I am doing everything I can to get him cause if the Spurs do...your front court is toast...

Poor Deandre signed on with the Mavs and he might spend 4 games a year guarding these 4 dudes by himself cause Dirk sure as hell is not going to help him get it done defensively
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Defensively though... West is older... Duncan is older...

Rim protection is only coming from one guy

They should bring that kid over they drafted for camp
 
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FAH1223 said:
Defensively though... West is older... Duncan is older...

Rim protection is only coming from one guy

They should bring that kid over they drafted for camp
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Seeing as how Swag Antonio has two of the top 10 perimeter defenders in the league in Leonard and Green...I am not worried about rim protection...

Teams are going to spend so much time getting there pick and roll stymied by Leonard and Green that they just going to end up throwing junk at the rim with 3 seconds left on the shot clock...
 
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FAH1223 said:
Yeah... i still dont trust J Michael



Masai paid Nene $65 million over 5 years a few months before... then traded him after buyer's remorse, then signed Javale

I guess they thought at 24, he would improve
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yeah, we pushed the Lakers to 7 that year (as the 6th seed) and McGee had a couple huge games so Masai took a gamble and lost... and had the good sense to jump ship before he had to deal with the consequences. :beli:

but it was clear to me that if you need McGee to be more than a 15-20 mpg Birdman off the bench and you don't have a Andre Miller type PG out there doing the thinking for him, his criminally low basketball IQ would make him a liability on the court.
 
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