Warning: This is not a "Where does YM fit on the Bradley - Smits - Second Coming continuum." Nor is it a "Gimme an All-Star 3 and change for the #1." It is, essentially, a "Luxury Tax?? We don't need (or care) about no stinkin' luxury tax" thread. The premise is... listen to Will, "Take Ming..." A lot has been made of rejuvenating the Rockets... A lot has been made of packing the house for years... A lot has been made of a billion new fans... I'm making a lot of the !billion! dollars this will mean. Domestically: Think full house, think NBC, think TNT, think Chaz saying "this Ming guy, he's like a toothpick, I should come out of retirement and whoop his ass" every Tuesday AND Wednesday night. Internationally: Think TV, think Radio, think every Chinese kid stacking a Yao jersey on top of their dusty old Wang one. Don't think about the Monopoly sized chunk Stern will take of all these things. But do... please DO think about the tens of millions of dollars this will mean for the Rockets... and how it will translate ON THE COURT. Would you like the $$ flexibility $$ of being one of the few teams to not give a $&%*& about money? Would you like to have the freedom to not screw it up like Portland? What? You want a proven vet to compliment our young guns? Take the Cuban approach: Go get one... better yet two. How about from some floundering, tax-strapped team with a veteran star who no longer fits. And how about we give them... Glen Rice and change. Portland, Dallas, and NYC move over. We're coming to the buffet table. Luxury tax be damned.
