Nyce_1 311 Report post Posted August 2, 2012 The current CBA did away with "Base Year Compensation", kind of. There is only one instance where "BYC" still exists and that is during a sign-and-trade where a Bird or Early Bird exception is used on a free agent with a raise over 20%. Since Lopez fits the criteria, the earliest he is eligible for trade is January 15, his outgoing salary won't be changed like it would have been in previous seasons. Ok. Thanks for the reply and clearing up the new rules. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
God Hates Otis Smith 153 Report post Posted August 2, 2012 If you keep Dwight you deal with the potential of the biggest diva in the NBA ruining the new team concept in year 1. He is not buying into the team over ME mantra. He is probably one of the most selfish players in the league. Right now keeping Dwight means that we are a 7 or 8 seed since we will probably not be able to upgrade our wings via trade. We will be better under the basket with all the depth, but look at the signs here. The Magic acquired only 1 skill position this summer : Bigs. That is it. This is on a team sorely lacking wing talent. That should tell you something. As much as I can not argue keeping dwight and then letting him go is not a bad idea, it is not a great one either. Quite frankly the guy is a complete toxic person. He has angered about everyone in the front office and literally acts like a 6 year old. He used Otis and ran to him all the time to backstab his teammates. Ill say it again, Vince Carter hated him so much that he asked to be traded. Now the average message board guy will say "who cares - Vince sucked", and that is the problem. People look at these guys as cattle sometimes and forget how much the human factor plays into a team winning games. If you keep Dwight you are keeping a guy who has proven to everyone that he is not a leader, but is a big enough presence to loom over the locker and keep everyone on edge. Basically if you keep this guy, you are betting that his behavior will change completely and he will become a team player. As much as D12 wants to tell YBR how bad the Magic are to him, he neglects to tell him about the PR department that has somehow maintained his image even though he has multiple kids, sexts nudes, has pursued multiple porn stars, treated all his teammates like crap and disrespected his head coaches, all while acting under the guise of Christianity. Do you really want to have a guy like this come back in hopes to convince him to stay? Dwight also whines about not flying on private jets, tells the fans he loves Orlando, while allegedly making a backdoor deal that he'd opt in only if he were traded to Brooklyn. He has come off as pretty fake and only saying things that sound good, but have nothing behind it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
God Hates Otis Smith 153 Report post Posted August 2, 2012 "As much as D12 wants to tell YBR how bad the Magic are to him, he neglects to tell him about the PR department that has somehow maintained his image even though he has multiple kids, sexts nudes, has pursued multiple porn stars, treated all his teammates like crap and disrespected his head coaches, all while acting under the guise of Christianity." Whoever you are Catman, you hit it dead on. While I know where YBR is coming from and it is 100% fact that ***** and Dwight's "boys" corrupted his mind, Catman is also correct. The Magic, PR, to this day have still slightly have his back by keeping lots of things under wraps. Hell, our PR team might be the best in the NBA. What Catman said about Dwight is all true, and then some, but you have never seen it on ESPN or even the Sentinel for that matter...talk to the security guards at Amway about trying to keep all of the "baby mama drama" away from the team. Their work is cut out for them every game. Countless stories about Otis and Bob that have never seen the light of day in the media. How many games did you see Bob sitting next to his family at Magic games prior to "drunk dialing Dwight?" Pretty much all of them. The reason he is no longer with the team (or around the family for that matter), wasn't because he desperately called Dwight late night Anyway, Dwight is barely speaking to his father these days because of his entourage and *****. What does that tell you? Dwight is like Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom; Brainwashed. ***** (Mulderum) has brainswashed a good guy, and his boys are encouraging it. While the very few good people in his life are trying to snap him out of it and wake him up. There still is a good man deep down inside Dwight, but unfortunately we will never see it until the day he wakes up, fires *****, kicks his "boys" out of his life, and appologizes. But it won't happen because he loves to be loved and there is no one who loves him more, than the people mooching/making $ off of him. There were reports a few weeks ago dwight didn't want his dad having any input at all....Dwight Sr has always come off as intelligent and high character, i think Dwight jr has let his "brand" go to his head. if the guy just focused on his GAME everything else would fall into place for him 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TN_Magic 12 Report post Posted August 2, 2012 It's true when they say that the problems start at the top :svgsad: well the guy is like 98, so i could see why he wouldn't want to go through a long rebuilding process. Problem is, the ceiling for us with most of these deals is a mediocre 6 seed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MakDaRealist 15 Report post Posted August 2, 2012 Thought I read that Brook Lopez has a trade kicker in his new contract, can anyone confirm this? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Knappy1 16 Report post Posted August 2, 2012 Thought I read that Brook Lopez has a trade kicker in his new contract, can anyone confirm this? yeah, if he comes to Orlando all the fans get a required kick in the ass before every home game to help distract us from the pain of having Brooks Lopez, Henny is trying to avoid us getting kicked in the ass 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
A Better DJ & Photographer 457 Report post Posted August 2, 2012 I think unless Brokenfoot comes out this year and puts up 20/12 he will be considered unmovable at the contract they gave him... I mean what the *****? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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Shock Phantom 263 Report post Posted August 2, 2012 Thought I read that Brook Lopez has a trade kicker in his new contract, can anyone confirm this? Yes a 15% trade kicker Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MakDaRealist 15 Report post Posted August 2, 2012 Yes a 15% trade kicker It gets worse. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
30Assists 342 Report post Posted August 3, 2012 Yes a 15% trade kicker Gawd, were they TRYING to make a poison pill? The only way that contract would be worse is it forced us to sign Shawn Bradley along with Commander Brokenfoot. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Enolam 10 Report post Posted August 3, 2012 I know a lot of you hate on @ChadEvansNBA but the past few days his reports have been absolutely spot on. Said what Larry Ridley said only a day before Larry Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
