30Assists 342 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 He'd be a real mismatch size-wise at SG. Now trade us Tyreke PG - has to be PG. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nyce_1 311 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 Jason Jones @mr_jasonjonesAnderson is restricted, so Kings would have to come up with an offer Orlando would be reluctant to match. If Orlando deals Dwight Howard and is in full rebuild mode, team might pass on matching an offer to Anderson. So the Kings could benefit from all this drama. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jrjr1229 9 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 If I were Dwill, I would choose Dallas now... Joe Johnson + Wallace does not equal to Dirk and Marion... I am sorry. And NJ ist about to max out their cap.... no future there now... Mark Cuban is one of the best owners in terms of going hard after players he wants... If Dwill is all about winning now, he would go Dallas, then Dallas can wait a year to sign Howard forming the SUPER big three... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
magicblue 315 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 PG - has to be PG. Only if you concede he's not a pass first point Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stu Bronsilino 313 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 Jason Jones @mr_jasonjones Spoke with Petrie about Ryan Anderson: "He was primarily a (PF) in Orlando but he can play some other spots on the perimeter." Retweeted by David Baumann read a tweet earlier, that they think he can play SF, LMAO LOL apparently Geoff Petrie posts on realgm in the magic boards a bunch too. i secretly hope for a evans ryno s&t deal. so wing for wing according to sac's point of view. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NittanyBuc 757 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 Nice! Can you, or someone, photoshop Dwight's head on this and let me use it as my avatar? I have no skills.... I don't do photoshop, talk to Beast Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
30Assists 342 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 Only if you concede he's not a pass first point ............mebbe Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
magicblue 315 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 I don't do photoshop, talk to Beast where you at Beast? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ball junkie 277 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 GM Danny Ferry Might Have Just Dealt Hawks Into Future Dwight, CP3 Moves.....by John Hollinger, ESPN Insider We knew when the Atlanta Hawks hired Danny Ferry as their general manager that it would mark a wholesale change in the way this franchise did business, but nobody expected the change to be this drastic, this fast. With two landmark moves in a period of hours Monday that wiped nearly $90 million off the payroll, the Hawks went from a franchise that considered losing in the second round of the playoffs to be the pinnacle of human achievement to being one that could matter -- I mean really, truly matter -- for the first time since Dominique Wilkins was making nightly highlight films. For those who just crawled out from under a rock, the Hawks first sent Joe Johnson to Brooklyn for the expiring contracts of Jordan Farmar, Johan Petro, Jordan Williams, Anthony Morrow and DeShawn Stevenson (who will have a non-guaranteed multiyear deal, per sign-and-trade rule requirements, but is effectively an expiring contract). The Hawks then traded Marvin Williams to Utah for the expiring contract of Devin Harris. Farmar will be bought out for $1.5 million, Harris might be rerouted someplace else and Petro will be given Pape Sy's former jersey just to see whether anyone can tell the difference. That's the summary, but let's zoom out to the big picture. I'm not sure anybody has put together all the dots on this, but consider the following: • Josh Smith is from Atlanta. • Dwight Howard is from Atlanta. • Dwight Howard and Josh Smith played together in high school and remain friends; in fact, Howard was the best man in Smith's wedding. • Chris Paul is not from Atlanta but is from North Carolina and wanted to play in Atlanta coming out of college. • Chris Paul, Dwight Howard and Josh Smith all will be free agents next summer. • Dwight Howard's main target in 2013 free agency, Brooklyn, just used up all its potential cap space in Monday's trade with Atlanta. • Atlanta now has only two players under contract for 2013-14, center Al Horford and first-round pick John Jenkins, and will have well north of $40 milion in cap room. • Atlanta could rather easily trade Horford, an All-Star center with a below-market contract, to create more room if needed. Yes, this is the real endgame for Atlanta: not just Howard, but Howard and CP3. The Hawks now are in position to do it and can get to that point in several ways. It's just an idea right now, but it's an unbelievable, transformative idea. Twenty-four hours ago, everybody looked at this franchise and wondered whether it could eke out another second-round playoff berth before Johnson's contract swallowed it whole. Now the questions are regarding whether Atlanta could get good wing players to match with its three stars. I can't overstate how huge it would be for this franchise in particular, one that has foundered locally with poor attendance and embarrassing TV ratings, symbolized by the poor public address announcer begging somebody, anybody, to cheer during sparsely attended January weekday games ... or, for that matter, playoff games. This would finally, after four decades of being an afterthought in this sports market -- four decades in which the Hawks have yet to make an Eastern Conference finals -- establish Atlanta as a place that matters, a Hawks game as a worthwhile diversion and, perhaps, this franchise as something more than an occasional diversion from college football. Unbelievably, the Hawks now can get there. The most obvious way is to wait until 2013. Atlanta can sign Paul and Howard to max contracts next summer, re-sign Smith for roughly the same money he makes now (which would trump any other offer he'd likely get since the Hawks can give him a five-year deal), and likely juuuuuust squeeze in under the current cap. The Hawks can get there in other ways, too. Consider that if Orlando decides to deal Howard sooner rather than later, Atlanta's likely offer of Horford, Jeff Teague, Jenkins and/or draft picks is likely to be as good as or better than anything anybody else offers. (This, obviously, is pending whether Houston is willing to truly throw in the kitchen sink on a Howard rental.) Such a move would give Atlanta zero contracts on its books besides Howard's heading into the 2013-14 offseason; again, it could sign Paul into its cap space, re-up Smith and be on its way. Alternatively, the Hawks could make a similar offer for Paul via trade, sign Howard in free agency and be on their way. The wild card in all this, obviously, is whether Atlanta is still on "The List" for either Howard or Paul, or for Smith for that matter, who had been angling for a trade. However, Smith's gripe was never with his hometown, but rather with the fact that the Hawks never seemed committed to winning. It's a lot tougher to make that argument if they go out and get Howard and Paul. Similarly, Atlanta becomes a lot more attractive for Howard if it seems ready to commit to building a long-term winner and has a GM who can do something more than shoot money out a firehose. And more attractive to CP3, obviously, if Howard and Smith are there too, and the team isn't owned by Donald Sterling. It's a perfect storm, in other words, and one has to presume that Ferry didn't start down this road without at least a wink and a nod that this might be doable. As for Brooklyn, this is what happens when you're desperate. I've killed the Nets for other reckless moves, but this one actually wasn't that terrible. They replaced one year of $14 million of flotsam with one year of a $20 million Joe Johnson and then signed Joe Johnson to a three-year, $69 million deal on top of that. Not ideal, perhaps, but again, they're desperate to have a compelling product for their relocation to Brooklyn. (And trust me as a Jersey boy, this is a relocation. People in New Jersey only vaguely know where Brooklyn is; forget about actually going there.) The Nets cover themselves with a go-to option in Johnson if Deron Williams leaves, give themselves a very good spot-up shooter and secondary scorer if Williams goes, and give themselves a great shot at being a top-four seed in the East. Brooklyn's starting lineup will be among the best in basketball, presuming it re-signs Kris Humphries and Brook Lopez, and a bench (speculatively) of Jason Kidd, Mirza Teletovic and MarShon Brooks will at least be respectable in the backcourt. A lack of frontcourt depth and porous defense will keep the Nets from contending for anything important, but they'll be entertaining enough to put fannies in seats, and that was the idea. However, Utah baffles me. The Jazz just took on an extra year of Marvin Williams at $7.5 million, and I have no idea why. While Williams isn't a bad player, he's not worth this amount, and he does little to solve Utah's twin needs of perimeter shooting and real backcourt players. While the Jazz have a ton of cap room in 2013-14, Williams eats into it, and that paper cap room is going to disappear in a hurry if Utah tries to retain any of its own free agents -- such as Al Jefferson, Paul Millsap or Mo Williams. The fact the Jazz just handed Danny Ferry a free pass to potential world domination -- and, ironically, paved the path to the Hawks' getting Paul with a trade of Williams, the man Atlanta took instead of Paul in the 2005 draft -- is another reason to question this deal; at the least, they should be getting a first-round pick for their trouble. http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/hawksmoves_120702/nba-atlanta-hawks-remake-future-one-momentous-day Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
30Assists 342 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 where you at Beast? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NittanyBuc 757 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 Salary Cap Dwight 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hokupguy 0 Report post Posted July 3, 2012 GM Danny Ferry Might Have Just Dealt Hawks Into Future Dwight, CP3 Moves.....by John Hollinger, ESPN Insider http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/story/_/page/hawksmoves_120702/nba-atlanta-hawks-remake-future-one-momentous-day god dam talk about stretch for stroy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
