Miamimagicfan

i hope Lopez trips and turns an ankle walking through the door to take the god damn exam ;)

I agree, i like the houston deal, clear some space, be terrible for a year, then get a Max FA

He didn't come out and say he wouldn't sign. I remember him making a comment"are there banks in orlando" money talks, and honestly, even if he left, we could do the same thing and trade him if he didn't want to stay, if he left, so be it, we would at least get the cap space, rather than get a slightly above average center who will be making close to Max money for next 4 years. "Lopez"

True. Good point. Nicholson did look good. I just really came to like ryan anderson and the effort he gave out there. He was only getting better. Nicholson does look good tho. So did Harper with some nice range.

No i hear you and AGREE completely, I'm saying we should have MATCHED and kept him for at least another few months, at the very least. Anyways..so wants the latest on Dwight trade. did we trade him yet?...lol

your telling me Lakers don't swap Bynum for Howard straight up if we offer them it?

Agreed, he was a 7' footer, WHO AVERAGED 4 and 4!!! Anderson is 6'10 led league in 3pters and just so happens to get 8 rebounds per game next to the best rebounder in the game.. No sense in arguing it, we all want the same thing, but i just hope this GM isn't in over his head. No way he works under Sam Presti for 4 years and then makes this terrible trade being rumored..

Andrew Bynum would fit perfect next to Anderson.. Just sayin

Really, Gortat wasn't an Asset? explain

It has to be on his list, but you don't let your 2nd best player go for nothing..Can anyone think of a team that just let their 2nd best player who is YOUNG leave for anything less than a Max Deal? The guy is worth 9mil a year.!!!

I'm ok to look for sleepers in summer league, but Assets are assets, and Ryan Anderson is a strong asset in the league, whether he perfumed well in the playoffs or not. Hell, theres lots of players that we consider assets that haven't even SNIFFED the playoffs (see Evans, Tyreke, Gay, Rudy) For 9 million a year, and see guys like Omer Asik and wallace get 8 and 10 mil a year, we could have just signed him and traded him this year if we didn't want him for a lottery pick next year. I mean I'm not a GM, but I gotta at least say Otis would have matched the deal, he made dumb trades and probably would have traded him for ray allen at the deadline next year, but he at least had the right idea keeping Gortat. We should have done the same thing with anderson. I just think that if we would have kept him, made the Trade for Bynum, and just waited two years till these crap contracts came off the books, we could have really had a chance to land a 2nd star to put next to bynum/anderson. Say what you want, but we could have had the same productivity from Ryan if we make the trade for Bynum, one could argue Ryan might even be better, since Bynum is better in the post than Howard is. (not saying he IS better than howard, just better on Offense) End of Rant

1. JJ redick is not better than marshon brooks if you are at the stage of the game where we are rebuilding. I love JJ, but he's not a better fit going forward then brooks. 2. Why not match? we could always trade him down the line, if not, we are stuck with a good young PF/C that put up strong numbers in only his 4th yr who will only get better. Otis hand couldn't have been forced because Dwight did opt in, so if he did get healthy for the playoffs, it would have been nice to have Ryan with Dwight. Im just saying, we have no god damn WING, when was the last time we saw a wing drive by his man and Dunk the ball with authority. I think honestly its been since TMAC we haven't had even one guy who could beat his guy off the dribble and throw the ball down. God this sucks

I can't help but think that we could have gotten a lottery pick at LEAST for a guy who put up 17 and 8 and is 24 yrs old...

Really? God Awful. He's better than any SG we have on the roster, and can create his own shot, and he's what, 21 yrs old.. Don't judge him by one summer league game. Im just saying, we don't need any more bigs. If we do this stupid trade, and fran DOES actually come over, we have what. Lopez, Vaquez, Ayon Davis, Nicholson, OQuinn, Harper? Thats count em, 7 players that people are arguably rotation players with the exception of OQuinn, who most experts say is "NBA ready" at this point. Depth at Guard... Nelson, Duhon??! JRich, JJ redick.... We could do MUCH WORSE than Brooks as a 2 here rather than a guy nobody has heard of until 48 hours ago. We traded the freaking Most Improved player of the year and 24 yr old guy, for a 27 yr old nobody..

That 2009 Team was arguably one of the deepest teams, we realistically had 10 solid players that likely 8 would start on this 2013 team next year if we do this Nets deal.. Buddy of mine was saying if your blowing it up, why not keep Ryan at 24 yrs old and trade him for something of value, rather then lose an asset for a relative unknown "big". We need wing help, jesus we could have given the Nets Anderson for Marshon Brooks and i think that would have been better value.