Around the League: July 2014

[TOO]

Sheridan is usually clickbait, so we'll see if he actually gets one right.

[Superbone]

What happened to the meeting with Riley tomorrow?

[In2ition]

Agreed on Sheridan, I can't remember a single thing he's been right on with or any type of story that he's broke.

[Superbone]

Did it happen?!

Oh, I was reading on Tapatalk and it doesn't show tweets. No wonder I was confused.

[Aztec Sunsfan]

Well it was a nice run for Miami. I understand why he's going to Cleveland, but I still maintain he has his best chances of winning a championship with us.

If the media agrees loud with you, it could enhance our chances to get Love over here as more than a rental, that would be awesome.

Trade for Love (opted in for 2 years), using our own '15 pick to involve a third team to complement an offer to the Wolves with the Morrii, the Lakers' pick and their own pick. Then pitch a max offer to Monroe (haven't considered, but if Gortat got 12 per year, then the Max for Monroe is just market price), resign Bledsoe, Tucker and we are set.

[In2ition]

Would the Suns really need Monroe when the have Len and Plumlee? Unless they envision Len being a 4.

[Shabazz]

https://twitter.com/rick_bonnell/status/486729927933165568

[TOO]

Matched in 3..2..1..

[Gladiator]

Adrian Wojnarowski‏@WojYahooNBA·3 mins
Charlotte has agreed to a 4-year, $63M maximum offer sheet with Utah RFA Gordon Hayward, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.

That's quite a contract (apologies for not being able to do the nifty twitter posting!)

[Mori Chu]

Utah is totally matching that. That's a fair price.

[Ring_Wanted]

Heh. Almost 16M per. It would really give me pause but in the end Utah is not doing anything better with the money in terms of free agents, so to them the cap space probably means less than retaining Hayward.

I hope the salary cap goes really up starting next summer, because if it doesn't almost every contract signed this summer is going to look like an albatross.

[Superbone]

Interesting:

http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/23 ... mire-Trade

Knicks Contact 76ers On Amar'e Stoudemire Trade

[carey]

Gordon Hayward has agreed to a max offer sheet with the Hornets, but I've read in several places that Utah will match it.

[ShelC]

Knicks are supposedly looking to move Amar'e and Bargnani to make a push for LeBron.

[Sunsfan4life]

Knicks are supposedly looking to move Amar'e and Bargnani to make a push for LeBron.

If we don't make a play for a Monroe or Parsons then I'd take Amare for a yr with some greasing involved.

Amare,Shumpert and a top 10 protected 1st? Sure. Good PR move too....

[carey]

Knicks have no picks to give unless wee are talking way in the future.

[carey]

So there's a 3 team deal going down to free up some cap space in Cleveland. Here are the details.
https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/486878197456576512 https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/486878355871252480 https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/486878652546973696 https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/486881043782578176

[ShelC]

I think Bron Bron's going home.

[In2ition]

I think that LeBron going back home is a very good redemption story.

But, I might lose it if I hear one more person try to tell me that Cleveland has gone through so much and deserves some good news! Please tell me what Cleveland did to deserve to keep LeBron in the first place? LeBron took all the heat for them not winning a title there the first time around, yet when he leaves the rest of the roster is exposed to show just how horrible it was. The onus should have been on the Cleveland FO. Then, they have had 3 #1 draft picks in 4 years, along with another couple of #4 picks. Why do they "deserve" more good things to happen to them? And for conspiracy theorists, why does the rest of the NBA need to keep paying reparations to the Cavs? I seriously don't understand why everyone feels sorry for them screwing up everything themselves. Can someone please explain? Yeah, the "Decision" was a really bad idea, and no one wants to be dumped at the alter in front of all the world, I get that. But then you have their owner write a immature and spiteful letter that showed his own true colors against LeBron, even though by all accounts LeBron earned him WAAAAAYYYY more money than he ever paid LeBron while he was there. I don't get it any of you Cleveland apologists, make a case to me and anyone who also doesn't understand why they "deserve" good things to happen to them.

[carey]

They don't. 3 #1 picks is plenty of restitution for whatever the heck they've been through. In fact, ONE #1 pick is plenty restitution.