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NBA Off-season thread: Duncan and Garnett retire

I'm sure Zaza coulda gotten like 2/15 from someone in this market. But it's not surprising, the Warriors are going to get decent vets to round it out from ring chasers
 
Knicks get Jennings on a 1yr/5 mil. Seems like a steal. Low risk high reward
 
Sounds like some Wade news is coming down the pipe soon and it's NOT Miami.
 
How about Marc Spears coming out of nowhere to be the second best #scoooooop source.
 
No he's going to sign with the Clippers for less than Austin Rivers/
 
He'd be a nice fit for them.
 
Miami beat writers are being cryptic, one said sounds like Miami is going to be sick. LeBatard is joking, or not joking, about Wade to CLE. Also looks like Dan Gilbert, LeBron and Wade shared a chartered jet today.

@LuxJetGroup
Happy 4th! @cavsdan @KingJames @DwyaneWade. Enjoy!

I don't know if Wade has that level of spite in him to take a huge pay cut to play w/ his best friend and screw Riley, but it would be amazing.

eta: also it doesn't seem like a ploy to get more money, it's been reported Riley has already, tho belatedly, put a 2 year/$40mm dollar offer on the table with a player option in year 2.
 
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If they can get Cuban to take Shumpert, they might have a few more bucks.

If they go full Golden State and dump Channing Frye also, they can pay Wade a bunch before they sign Lebron.

I think Gilbert will pay the tax to shove it up Riley's ass.
 
Good article about how the NBA cap situation generated the superteam era.
http://www.slate.com/articles/sport...nt_signed_with_the_golden_state_warriors.html

Here’s another way to look at the same set of facts. The NBA’s greatest players exert more control over the direction and history of their sport than athletes in any other league. But the great man theory of NBA history doesn’t capture the deeper structural forces that govern how the sport works. The last few days have been the perfect illustration of how the CBA creates the NBA. Thanks to a $24 billion television deal, the league’s salary cap spiked this offseason from $70 million per team to an estimated $94 million. General managers have to spend that money somewhere, so huge chunks of change have gone to bench players like Jon Leuer (four years, $41 million) and Timofey Mozgov (four years, $64 million). Rookies, by contrast, are massively underpaid, while the collective bargaining agreement's max contract rules stipulate that LeBron James makes roughly the same amount as Chandler Parsons.



Given that the CBA works as a redistribution program, with players like Leuer, Mozgov, and Parsons grabbing cash that should really belong to draftees and superstars, it’s inevitable that a player like Durant would look to extract value in some other way: by winning championships, for instance. And the surest path to winning a championship is to form a super team. From the team’s perspective, it will cost Golden State approximately as much to sign Durant as it would have to match the Mavericks’ offer to Harrison Barnes. (Or to put it in terms that Joe Lacob would understand: In the NBA, it costs as much to purchase Apple stock as it does to buy a broken floppy disk.) When money is no longer a differentiating factor, players will inevitably choose the franchises that give them the best opportunity to win. By mandating that the best players don’t get paid like the best players, the CBA has given us the era of the super team.



This is how things are going to be unless something structural changes. People are complaining about individual actors—dumb, spendthrift general managers and disloyal, cowardly players—when this is exactly what the league has set itself up to be.
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Lance Thomas got paid. Lance Thomas. If you are Devin Thomas, you HAVE to be thinking you are worth $27 million too. (Devin, just develop a 3-point shot you can hit 25% of the time and you are gold).
 
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