one time please

I mean, apparently the NOP and Rockets agreed in principle to a deal that doesn't work under the cap. Seems like something that should be noted much earlier in the process. If your one main job is to know the cap do you really not think the average TZer wouldn't learn that better than the former NBA players who are now GMs? Sure, you probably won't know basketball near as well as the GM so personnel decisions aren't going to be something you should be left with, but paying a guy who you can have on a call when you're talking a trade who can just say "nope, that will put us over the cap" would seem pretty useful to most teams and you'd be paying them pennies compared to the rest of the operation.

They will fight for it, but certainly 8 better rosters than that in the west.

Sa
Okc
Lac
Hou
Portland
Memphis
Suns
Dallas

They all must be better imo

No, respectable but not a PO team in the West

Get a better PG and have Lin as a 3rd guard and maybe, hiring Karl for the reg season would be a big help

This is all under a false premise of a healthy Kobe tho

I will never count Kobe out.

i dont get it. the wolves are not scared of love leaving in one year (rightly so). therefore, Love does not have the leverage many itt are claiming. maybe i worded it badly

lol at needing six months

no.

i think somewhere, saunders is convinced a playoff run from the wolves = a resigning from love which would be the optimal wolves situation.

i wouldnt be surprised if saunders keeps love to the trade deadline trying to rope a dope a good start to a season into another 4-5 years of klove. obviously a slim chance of this happening, but id rather go that route than getting ****ing TT and waiters for love

The cap had yet to be determined

It carries for awhile after the season for total accounting of revenues

Why do you think this is true?

The only thing they have not to be worried about is urgency, they can wait until the trade deadline for better offers or to see if they're more competitive and/or he's had a change of heart

That has nothing to do with after the year tho - he gone

The Lakers best chance to make the playoff is by unloading Jack Nicholson and the rights to play home games in the Staples Center to a team in the East for the rights to play in the East.

pretty sure u can just toss me some phone # and a bigass phone plan and i can get to work by monday

^^ Man am i the only dude in the world who still has hope that linsanity returns?, like i know lin turnovers are a huge problem but the guy for sure improved his shooting in the off season to complement harder being the primary ball handler & jeremy lin defence is abit underrated as its not far off from the guy the rockets starts over him. Also in pretty much every game we see lin being the primary ball handler for his team he like 100% of the time(lol sample) does pretty damn good.

I think if he fixes that turnover problem abit & be more decisive in his decision making when he goes to the lane i think hes a much better p.g than people give him credit for, but maybe that;s my linsanity fandom not wanting to leave iono.

It's not like this though. They're not sacrificing anything by missing out on Lin and a garbage pick.

chris broussard just confirmed..

Exo,

3rd guards can still see starter or close to minutes

He's just not much of a point

the main point is, the only way the wolves have no leverage in the situation is if love goes to Flip and says "I ONLY want to play for Cleveland, i am leaving after this year regardless, trade me to Cleveland now or get nothing in return". Love has been rumored to want to play in quite a few places though.

Sure, but at the same time most teams are going to be thinking first and foremost about improving their team, not declining to do so in an effort to depress one opponent's chances. (Doesn't it count for something that other opponents will also benefit from this chicancery as well? Like, is New Orleans really better served having Chandler Parsons in Dallas than in Houston?)

And I suspect that in these circles if you don't keep your word, that gets around and you're going to have a much more difficult time doing business.

The Lakers got an expiring deal and a first-rounder for nothing. That has some value, even if I do think they won't be competing this year and don't have much faith in their current management team. Maybe there was actually a market for Lin, given all the talk about Philadelphia being interested previously.

even if this happens the wolves are better off holding onto love for this season and letting him walk then taking something awful like bennett and picks

I think Bazemore will stay with Lakers which is good. Maybe they can lure Bynum back or grab Oden. Put them together and you might have a third of a starting NBA center

ok they might be slightly worried about that possibility but mainly what im trying to say is having love for one year and getting nothing in return for him is a better option than getting Clevelands trash and 0 more years of Love. We didnt take GStates' trash (which is mostly what i meant when i said "nothing they've done) and we better not take cle's either

In your opinion

They still have to field a team and they don't operate like Philly

They see a player they value more than his contract and a pick, why would they turn that down?

Your whole point is

not Lin's worth

^^^ Every game where he ran the point in new york and houston(without harden) he played pretty damn good is what im saying though, outside of his turnover problems when he drives to the bucket and is indecisive he is a pretty good passer & solid team player. He has good offensive skills & iono i always loved the offense 10x better in both ny and houston when he ran the point rather than carmelo iso play or harden iso play. Even from a viewer standpoint that iso play is kinda boring vs watching a dynamic point play like what i always see with jlin etc.

I like Bazemore a lot, a lot

I suggested someone draft him in the recent dynasty one via PM

Looter in a riot