Man, the tension/excitement brewing in here is so thick you can cut it with a knife. Days of Grace, Ladies & Gentlemen...Love our little home.(maybe not so little anymore)
hope he won't go that route for himself, and for the team, it's a big risk and small reward, anyone with a little bit financial sense should sign the offer even if it means 10-20% less, too many ifs, what if he injured or market is same next year. That extra $10million dollars next year (comparing with QO) could invest and grow for the 4 years after.
I love it, please sign him Morey. He can be our Zaza, and we need that type of player. Watch out, Stephenie's ankle
You don't what "Stonewall" Jackson. Rockets would enact a scorched earth policy on the league. Presidency ..err ... C'hip would be a sure thing.
The LA Clippers are building a team of tradable role players. A lot of teams will be looking at them at the NBA Trade Deadline in February. Clippers signing guys just to flip for picks.
They will be hardcore sellers at the deadline. They are looking to collect as many assets as possible while remaining competitive. They are pursuing the Morey model from years back. Interested to see if it works. I think they sell off all players for future assets this year at the deadline and make the back end of the lottery. Followed by a 1year hard tank next year to garner the franchise guy and a ton of flexibility and picks going forward
From your post I'm guessing the rockets are on the verge of signing Eduardo Alonso Nájera. Seems like a Morey guy, undersized power foward with an engine.
Clippers want to remain competitive now & then try to get in on next year's free agent bonanza. Only Gallinari, Lou Williams & their rookies are on the books beyond this year (Edit: Oops, and of course Harrell) Non-guaranteed: Avery Bradley, Sindarius Thornwell & C.J. Williams Potential Restricted Free Agents: Milos Teodosic & Sam Dekker Team Option: Jawun Evans http://www.nba.com/article/2018/07/...les-new-york-ready-free-agency-spotlight-2019 LA CLIPPERS PRIMARY 2019 ASSETS: • Cap space (two max contracts) • Wealth/passion of owner Steve Ballmer • Championship winning personnel (Jerry West, Doc Rivers, Sam Cassell) • Future arena There is a saying in the Clippers’ building about the “Lob City” era: we won, but we were never the winner. The franchise had the third-most regular season victories in the NBA during that stretch, which ran from 2011-17, when Chris Paul was in town. But it ran its course, and with James on the Lakers, the Clippers have again fallen behind their celebrated rivals with whom they share Staples Center for attention and glitz. But the feeling within the Clippers’ organization is that a potential battle with the Lakers next summer for elite free agents should go much differently than skirmishes in the past. They weren’t in on James, having decided after trading Blake Griffin to Detroit in February that they were all-in for 2019 (when they’ll have room for two max free agents). So there was no taking on contracts with years, and no dealing of either of their first-round picks (the second coming from the Pistons). In 2019’s free agency, the Clippers will be led by Ballmer, the NBA’s richest owner, with an estimated wealth of $40 billion. He led the presentation to Griffin last summer that convinced Griffin to not take any free-agent visits and sign a max deal. Sure, the $171 million helped Griffin make his mind up quick, but there was a well-articulated vision for the short and long term laid out as well. As most everyone should know by now, Ballmer loves to compete. The Clippers will be aggressive next summer, working hard and smart for free agents. The pressure of working for a multi-billionaire in the ultimate alpha male endeavor is staggering. But it’s less staggering than working for an owner that isn’t willing to go into the luxury tax. Ballmer oversaw the team’s front office restructuring last year, where Rivers was stripped of his president of basketball operations authority but kept aboard as coach, with Lawrence Frank, the team’s EVP of Basketball Operations, leading the revamped front office, which now includes GM Michael Winger and assistant GMs Trent Redden and Mark Hughes. The restructuring mirrored new investments in the team’s infrastructure across the board that the team believes leaves it well-positioned to match the Lakers and anyone else bell for bell, whistle for whistle. A 2019 pitch will also include Ballmer’s updated plans for a new Clippers-only arena, currently slated for Inglewood, where the Lakers used to play, and which would house a new practice facility. On the floor, the Clippers will point to a team strafed by injuries last season and the mid-season trade of Griffin that nonetheless battled to the end of the regular season before falling short of the playoffs. Now they’ll add their two first-rounders this year, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (whose Draft rights came via trade with Charlotte) and Jerome Robinson, to Tobias Harris and some of the grinders unearthed by all the injuries last season, including C.J. Williams and Jawun Evans. But someone who comes to the Clippers will have an opportunity to make his own history, different from “Lob City.” That was an era of wins, but never being the winner. There aren’t any championship banners in Staples with the Clippers’ names on them, and no statues outside of Staples featuring Clippers’ legends. The guys who want to be pioneers will get a chance to do it there, in a big city, and for a franchise that will be ready to think big again.
