The Dwight Howard Drama Unfolds

[Soul Bro 1,418]

Stephen A. Smith is tired of Dwight. That is where we are.

 

'Cause he's a punk

[Ryan the Magic Fan 253]

Shoot, it's the direction the league's headed in anyways.

 

At least this way, smaller market teams will MAYBE feel some sort of accomplishment by attaining promotion status.

 

Think about Charlotte as an example. Why the hell would any SANE fan show up for or even support that miserable franchise?

 

Hell, the league's best players are bolting for the big cities anyways.

 

That's why a more reasonable plan would be contraction and then the institution of a renewable franchise tag on certain players like the NFL. But doing this would hurt markets in the middle that ARE doing well (on your list Denver, New York, Dallas, Utah, Phoenix) and completely end the teams at the in the 3rd tier. It also would then become ny impossible for any team in the middle tier to ever make it into the upper tier, which would eventually compromise the league in 10-15 years as a whole.

 

Promotion relegation works in Europe because the EPL and La Liga are the only pro sports really going on there that are making big bucks. But with the NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS, NASCAR, and NBA all fighting for viewers in the states, it just wont work here. It's why the MLS has not adopted the same strategy with the USL Pro and the NASL. Relegation would signify a death nell for a team here in the US, while promotion would be kinda cool for a year or two, until that team realized it may make it into the upper league, but it will never compete.

[Forrest Gump 14]

Give me Lamb/Martin/Morris/Picks today and we're done. Send Martin to a third team for a C or SF.

Sounds good to me, I'll call up Morey while you hit up Rob, tell him the deals done.

[DKB49ORL 24]

Max Luckan

Looks like Magic GM Rob Hennigan and Lakers GM have spoken since yesterday. Unclear if they will meet.

 

[30Assists 342]

Harden, Jackson, Perkins, and Jones III for Dwight and JRich makes too much sense for both teams.

 

Not sure if numbers work though.

I'd pull that trigger in a second.

 

...what the hell? Who gave you a negative for that?

[Dwight Shrute 10]

But doing this would hurt markets in the middle that ARE doing well (on your list Denver, New York, Dallas, Utah, Phoenix) and completely end the teams at the in the 3rd tier. It also would then become ny impossible for any team in the middle tier to ever make it into the upper tier, which would eventually compromise the league in 10-15 years as a whole.

 

Guess I didn't think of it that way.

 

But, at least we agree that some sort of DRASTIC change needs to be made to ensure a decent amt of balanced competition.

[The Neighborhood Bully 266]

So Dwight thinks the grass will be greener in Dallas? From Zack Lowe on SI.com

 

 

To wit: The Mavs, as of this moment, have $34.2 million in guaranteed money for the 2013-14 season committed to four players: Nowitzki, Shawn Marion, Vince Carter and first-round pick Jared Cunningham. There has been mass confusion about the status of Carter’s deal, but according to Deeks and other sources, $2 million of the veteran shooting guard’s $3.18 million deal for 2013-14 became guaranteed when the Mavs did not waive him on June 30; that amount has been factored into the $34.2 million figure above, as has the customary 120 percent rookie scale figure for Cunningham.

 

But the rules — those rules again! — say the Mavs must account for eight empty roster spots, up to 12, by adding eight rookie minimum salary charges at $490,180 a pop. Toss those in, and you’re up to $38.1 million. Even assuming a very nice 5 percent bump up in the cap level from $58 million to $60 million, the Mavs would have about $21.9 million in cap space — just enough to fit Howard’s $20.5 million max salary, but not enough to upgrade the roster in any other meaningful way.

 

The Mavs could trim about $1 million off that figure by using the stretch provision on Carter’s deal, but this $38.1 million amount doesn’t account for a number of other potential charges: cap holds linked to a pile of outgoing free agents, including point guard Darren Collison, a useful young player, and just about everyone Dallas acquired this summer; a cap hold linked to guard Roddy Beaubois, once thought to be a core piece of the Mavs’ future but now sort of on the outs there; shooting guard O.J. Mayo’s player option, which he may well decline; a team option on shooting guard Dominique Jones; any money for second-round picks Jae Crowder and Bernard James; and the possibility that Dallas might keep and use its own first-round pick in next year’s draft.

 

Again: All of this is workable for one of the league’s brainiest front office regimes. The Mavs can renounce all their free agents, sign Crowder and James to non-guaranteed deals for 2013-14 (and simply cut them), trade Marion’s expiring deal ($9.066 million with and early-termination option at Marion’s choice) between now and next season’s trade deadline (a real potential game-changer) and pull lots of other simple moves to open up Howard-size cap space. Dallas will have the sign-and-trade route, a path Brooklyn and the Lakers will not be able to use next summer, since those two teams will be at or above the payroll level where the new collective bargaining agreement prohibits teams from entering into sign-and-trades.

 

So it’s fine for Howard to use the Mavs as a threat, and for all of us to place Dallas as the three-time Defensive Player of the Year’s theoretical free agency front-runner. But let’s not go overboard in detailing Dallas’ potential cap space, or forget that the Mavs will have to somehow field a full roster around the Nowitzki/Howard pairing if they do pull it off. Howard is worth these machinations, but they are tricky.

[jjgator 164]

So Dwight thinks the grass will be greener in Dallas? From Zack Lowe on SI.com

 

I think he's just saying he'll sign with Dallas if he's traded to the Rockets so that the Rockets won't trade for him.

[barnettej 263]

"Again: All of this is workable for one of the league’s brainiest front office regimes. The Mavs can renounce all their free agents, sign Crowder and James to non-guaranteed deals for 2013-14 (and simply cut them), trade Marion’s expiring deal ($9.066 million with and early-termination option at Marion’s choice) between now and next season’s trade deadline (a real potential game-changer) and pull lots of other simple moves to open up Howard-size cap space. Dallas will have the sign-and-trade route, a path Brooklyn and the Lakers will not be able to use next summer, since those two teams will be at or above the payroll level where the new collective bargaining agreement prohibits teams from entering into sign-and-trades."

 

So thats all Dallas would have to do to get Dwight Howard...... Thats Easy!

 

Man Dwight, your a killer negotiator....LMAO

[D12isilluminati 1]

Change ibaka for perkins and im in...

 

You'd really rather have Perkins over Ibaka?

[D12isilluminati 1]

You'd really rather have Perkins over Ibaka?

Dont bother replying I can't read. It happens

[Jareth Cutestory 678]

OKC won't give us both.