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Happy birthday to the artist formerly known as TheWhiff and his brother.The off season thread is huge so thought we'd start fresh for the final month before TC opens the first week of October.
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Happy birthday to the artist formerly known as TheWhiff and his brother.22 points for Dragic today.Through three games in the FIBA World Cup, the Suns guard is averaging 20.3 points on a ridiculous 70.6 percent shooting clip, including 54.5 percent from three.
Slovenia needed every bit of that production after Korea came out thinking upset in the first half. Slovenia found itself constantly frustrated by their opponents' ball movement, which resulted in far more half-court sets than Dragic and his teammates prefer.
http://www.nba.com/suns/blog/fiba-world ... nning-blogAs the FIBA World Cup warms up, so does Bogdanovic.
After scoring three and 12 points in his first two games, respectively, the Suns' first-round pick took a step further with a personal tournament high of 16 points on a much more efficient 7-of-11 shooting performance on Monday. The effort helped Serbia put away former Suns player Hamed Haddadi and Iran, 83-70.
Bogdanovic made sure to stay involved in nearly every aspect of the game, of which he played all by five minutes. The 22-year-old swingman added two steals, two assists, two rebounds and a block as his home country remained tied with France and Brazil for second place in Group A.
Bledsoe already doesn't have anything to gain by taking the QO.Ring_Wanted wrote:NotTraxxe has posted on realgm that the Bledsoe situation will be solved in favor of keeping the player.
Apparently the Suns will up the offer close to the deadline. 13.5M per, 5 years with a team option.
The plan supposedly is to frontload the contract so in practice Bledsoe doesn't have anything to gain by taking the QO.
I like how signing a contract to earn $12M per year playing a game requires "biting the bullet."carey wrote: -Lowe - the only real move is to bite the bullet and take the Suns offer.
Technically, he doesn't have to opt out. If he doesn't opt out, he'll become eligible to negotiate an extension next summer. But why would he opt to delay his raise a year, given that he's obviously getting one? One way or the other, next summer is the soonest he can sign anything.carey wrote:No. He has to terminate then re-sign.
That's not accurate if we are assuming there is a max offer waiting for him in 2015.Cap wrote: Bledsoe already doesn't have anything to gain by taking the QO.
Yeah, he could sign an extension even this very summer, but it makes no sense to him.Cap wrote:Technically, he doesn't have to opt out. If he doesn't opt out, he'll become eligible to negotiate an extension next summer. But why would he opt to delay his raise a year, given that he's obviously getting one? One way or the other, next summer is the soonest he can sign anything.carey wrote:No. He has to terminate then re-sign.
So, we should bid against ourselves? No way! I say stay absolutely firm on the 4/48. If he doesn't like it, he can GTFO. Bidding against yourselves is not a sound GMing strategy. He has shown no reason why he deserves more than 4/48, and there is no reason to give in to his agent's stalling tactics.JCSunsfan wrote:Suns should offer 4/53.48. Then there can be no excuses. Its not that much more and it puts an end to this.