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Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 5:47 pm
by Wally_West
According to Yahoo, Derek Fisher will be the new head coach of the Knicks. And the contract is ridiculous!

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--d ... 16360.html

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 5:54 pm
by Superbone
Wally_West wrote:According to Yahoo, Derek Fisher will be the new head coach of the Knicks. And the contract is ridiculous!

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--d ... 16360.html
Crazy, man. First Kidd, now Fisher. Straight from playing to coaching. And $5M per year for a first time coach at any level? Like I said, crazy.

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 5:58 pm
by In2ition
Superbone wrote:
Wally_West wrote:According to Yahoo, Derek Fisher will be the new head coach of the Knicks. And the contract is ridiculous!

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/sources--d ... 16360.html
Crazy, man. First Kidd, now Fisher. Straight from playing to coaching. And $5M per year for a first time coach at any level? Like I said, crazy.
He makes out better coaching than playing, right?

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 6:36 pm
by Phoenix219
Maybe they feel if they don't the "players" something close to what they just stopped making, that they won't feel compensated for coaching.

I hope he fails miserably.

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 11:15 pm
by carey
Kerr basically got the same amount & never coached a game in his life. I agree that it's ridiculous. Anyone know what Hornacek makes? It ain't $5M/yr...

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 11:43 pm
by Ring_Wanted
He makes $2M, tied with a number of other coached for lowes salary in the L.

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 12:24 am
by Superbone
Ring_Wanted wrote:He makes $2M, tied with a number of other coached for lowes salary in the L.
Maybe Kerr and Fisher will be 2.5 times the coach Hornacek is.

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Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 12:42 am
by Wally_West
WTF are cavs thinking? The fact that this almost happened is both hilarious and really fucked up, this would've been a disaster.

http://m.basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/ ... -cavaliers

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 1:49 am
by Ring_Wanted
Cleveland needs respectability. The only way you are attracting prestigious names is by overpaying grossly, and there is no guarantee that gets it done considering how rotten things looks from the outside.

Really, the Cavs are a dumpster, in some ways even worse than we were last season. They should take advantage of having fired Grant and the #1 and just start over.

Instead begging Irving to take the franchise max, send him to the highest bidder (at worst I guess LAL for their #7 plus whatever future picks they can move), and get rid of the rest of their dysfunctional pieces. Removing the GM cancer was the first step, but they need a roster makeover like what the Wizards did.

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 10:40 am
by In2ition
Word is (and this is not really a surprise) that if Kyle Anderson drops far enough, that the Spurs will try to make a deal to jump up a little in the draft to get him.

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 10:42 am
by In2ition
Ring_Wanted wrote:Cleveland needs respectability. The only way you are attracting prestigious names is by overpaying grossly, and there is no guarantee that gets it done considering how rotten things looks from the outside.

Really, the Cavs are a dumpster, in some ways even worse than we were last season. They should take advantage of having fired Grant and the #1 and just start over.

Instead begging Irving to take the franchise max, send him to the highest bidder (at worst I guess LAL for their #7 plus whatever future picks they can move), and get rid of the rest of their dysfunctional pieces. Removing the GM cancer was the first step, but they need a roster makeover like what the Wizards did.
I heard that the contract offer was actually $80 for 10 years, and that this was an attempt to go all in on the hope that they could lure LeBron back to Cleveland with their upgraded roster of potential budding stars to surround LeBron with.

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 10:49 am
by Ring_Wanted
To lure LeBron back. Pse. I think they burned that bridge, but you never know.

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 10:58 am
by In2ition
We've all heard that the Bulls want to trade for Love, but rumor has it that they are also looking to move up in the draft to pick an elite shooter. Their target is the Denver pick at 11, trying to trade their 16 and 19 to move up.

If Denver would take that, they would prefer to take the Suns 14 and 18, but that might be a little too rich for the Suns.

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:06 am
by Ring_Wanted
You'd need to be absolutely positive that the guy you want is going to be picked by Orlando or the Wolves to do it. If I fell in love with one prospect I'd pull the trigger, but I don't know who that could be in this range.

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 11:13 am
by In2ition
Gordon, Stauskas, McDermott, I think in that order.

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 3:53 pm
by INFORMER
14 and 18 for 11? The Suns would get robbed in that deal. Plus, I think Philly takes that deal for #10.

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 3:58 pm
by In2ition
INFORMER wrote:14 and 18 for 11? The Suns would get robbed in that deal. Plus, I think Philly takes that deal for #10.
Agreed. The only team besides Denver that would trade for more pick it seems, would be the Lakers, just because they don't have any young talent.

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 4:00 pm
by In2ition
Wait, I misread that response. I don't see Philly taking that.

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 11:29 am
by Mori Chu
Kind of funny to see MJ having a laugh. Jimmy Kimmel's, "Can Michael Jordan palm it?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRYvHekZJSQ

Re: Around the league: June 2014

Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2014 7:06 pm
by TOO
Melo is looking to join LBJ and the Heat according to Stein and Windhorst. :roll: