At least there is a GM out there that will always make a worse deal than ours.
They didn't get a lot, but they were going to lose him for nothing in two months, so take what you can get.
I find this to be flawed logic. I think it is almost always better to keep a player like Noel and sign him as an RFA. Now you have him under your control on a long-term contract. You can always trade him later on. And now that he is under contract for several years, there is less risk associated with trading for him, so if anything his trade value should increase. The nuggets did something similar to this with Nene years ago and ended up flipping him to Washington a year into his contract.
Depends on what you sign him for. He's probably going to sign a big offer sheet. Assuming he takes the biggest offer, he's probably signing it with the team who covets him the most. If you match, you can no longer trade him to that team, so you eliminate your most likely trade partner. And he's restricted, so there really isn't any risk in trading for him, Dallas has complete control over whether Noel plays for them or not.
It's possible philly could move him next year at the deadline or maybe a sign and trade this summer, but we would have thought Knight would be easily tradeable as well and he's not. Philly obviously didn't consider Noel as part of their future. It would be very risky to commit 60-80 million to him hoping you can trade him later. It might work out, but it could backfire big time.
If we do a trade today (or even this summer), Knight will be the millstone wrapped around someone else's neck that drives their value down making us hate any trade we do.
We needed to reach the salary floor. Scott is owed $3.3M - He's shooting 29% from the field and 15% from 3 this year. I think we found someone worse than Knight.
I think the most surprising thing is that the Suns paid out cash for Mike Scott. Are we sure that Atlanta didn't pay the Suns to take Mike Scott? Seems so unlike the Suns owner.
"There are 3 rules I live by: never get less than 12 hours sleep, never play cards with a guy with the same first name as a city & never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Everything else is cream cheese."
carey wrote:We needed to reach the salary floor. Scott is owed $3.3M - He's shooting 29% from the field and 15% from 3 this year. I think we found someone worse than Knight.
We have to spend the money anyway. Is this just us saying that we didn't want to pay our other players more? I am not sure why we spent money on this.
carey wrote:We needed to reach the salary floor. Scott is owed $3.3M - He's shooting 29% from the field and 15% from 3 this year. I think we found someone worse than Knight.
We have to spend the money anyway. Is this just us saying that we didn't want to pay our other players more? I am not sure why we spent money on this.
Because Scott has already been paid probably 2 million of his salary this year. We only pay him 1.3 million, but he still counts for 3.3 million against the cap. This saved sarver 2 million dollars. Had nothing to do with his basketball ability.
