2016 Free Agency Thread

[BonesJones]

He was a scrub who played for the Pacers. Wing player kinda plays like Dion Waiters, but much worse. Yes, substantially worse than Waiters but gets 52 mil

Yeah the Pelicans are making some straight up dumb deals.

They should've traded Tyreke for a future 1st and Jrue+Asik for another 1st Round Pick. Then they could've tanked and used those picks to add good, young, CHEAP talent that would be better than Moore and Hill even as rookies.

Oh, and they'd have approximately $60M in cap space next year, in a better free agent class with less competition.

Instead they'll be spending $20M per year on E'twaun Moore and Solomon Hill. Man I wish I was their GM.

 

[BonesJones]

Look all I'm doing is repeating what my Clipper fan friend is hearing in LA.

Okay lol. My sources (aka the internet lol) have told me that they've been selling Durant on a Big 4. I don't think they'd be able to convince Durant to sign if Griffin wasn't there.

 

[Cippy91]

Kent Bazemore just signed back with the Hawks for Evan Turner money. 4 years, 70 mil.

 

[Cippy91]

AL Horford gone for sure

 

[HolyBackboard]

This is why it's hard to get upset at the Turner contract. EVERYONE is getting paid ... there will be no Aminu/Davis bargains this summer.

 

[Cippy91]

Boston will probably get him. We should of went for him all along

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Good news for the Hawks: Kent Bazemore had bigger offers from the Lakers and another team and turned them down to re-sign with the Hawks.
Bad news for the Hawks: it was for $70M over 4 years (i.e., Wes Matthews/Evan Turner money)
Worse news for the Hawks: this essentially slams the door on Al Horford, who looks likely to end up in Boston.

 

[illmatic99]

oooh I'll take Millsap in a heartbeat please

 

[B-Roy]

oooh I'll take Millsap in a heartbeat please

We can't even give them the cap relief they want without renouncing our RFAs. Thanks ET.

 

[illmatic99]

BTW, Houston now has lost Howard for nothing and DAL has lost Parsons for nothing.

 

[illmatic99]

We can take on at least 6-8 mil of salary without doing anything. If we let one of Meyers or Moe go, we can open up 14-16 mil. I'd do that in a heartbeat for Millsap

 

[Cippy91]

We can take on at least 6-8 mil of salary without doing anything. If we let one of Meyers or Moe go, we can open up 14-16 mil. I'd do that in a heartbeat for Millsap

Let Meyers go. Simple.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Turner and Bazemore...

Barton is going to get the max.

 

[Cippy91]

Really hope we are looking into Atlanta and their situation with Horford. They are shopping Milsap it seems like

 

[Cippy91]

 

[Natebishop3]

One millsap please!

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

One millsap please!

Or try and get in a three way with a team that wants Millsap... Maybe Cleveland?

POR: Kevin Love+Rights to Cedi Osman
CLE: Paul Millsap
ATL: 'Rouq Aminu

 

[Natebishop3]

Or try and get in a three way with a team that wants Millsap... Maybe Cleveland?

POR: Kevin Love+Rights to Cedi Osman
CLE: Paul Millsap
ATL: 'Rouq Aminu

I would rather have millsap honestly.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

I would rather have millsap honestly.

So would I, but does Millsap want us? I think he'd rather go to Cleveland and who better than us to pick up the hometown kid on the super cheap?

 

[BonesJones]

Given that we talk to Millsap first and he says he'd give us first chance at resigning him:

Atlanta Gets: Al-Farouq Aminu, Ed Davis
Brooklyn Gets: Tiago Splitter, 2017 ATL 1st
Portland Gets: Paul Millsap

We could keep all our RFAs, Atlanta clears $15M while getting two valuable role players, and Brooklyn only takes on $8M to get a first round pick.

 

[BonesJones]

Given that we talk to Millsap first and he says he'd give us first chance at resigning him:

Atlanta Gets: Al-Farouq Aminu, Ed Davis
Brooklyn Gets: Tiago Splitter, 2017 ATL 1st
Portland Gets: Paul Millsap

We could keep all our RFAs, Atlanta clears $15M while getting two valuable role players, and Brooklyn only takes on $8M to get a first round pick.

Lillard / McCollum
McCollum / Crabbe
Turner / Harkless
Millsap / Vonleh
Plumlee / Leonard

Or then we could try to work out some sort of double sign and trade around Leonard and Gasol, but Leonard would have to get a big number and Gasol would have to come cheap ($12M-ish)

 

[MickZagger]

Let Meyers go. Simple.

Lay off Meyers, man.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

Joe Johnson to the Jazz for 2/22?

 

[riverman]

Why do we suck at making pitches?

Connaughton is a great pitcher

 

[MickZagger]

Joe Johnson to the Jazz for 2/22?

random.

 

[theprunetang]

random.

I actually think the Jazz are going to be kind of good next year. I could see them as a 6 seed honestly.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

I actually think the Jazz are going to be kind of good next year. I could see them as a 6 seed honestly.

Hill / Exum
Hood / Burks
Hayward / Johnson
Favors / Lyles
Gobert / Withey

Besides frontcourt depth, that's a solid squad that SHOULD be in that 6-8 range.

 

[theprunetang]

Hill / Exum
Hood / Burks
Hayward / Johnson
Favors / Lyles
Gobert / Withey

Besides frontcourt depth, that's a solid squad that SHOULD be in that 6-8 range.

Yep. I would have to reexamine everything when it comes time to predict the western conference order, but I feel pretty safe putting them at 6th or 7th.

 

[BlazerDuckSeahawkFan94]

With all these deals, the NBA should just eliminate the salary cap. I mean, look at LA they had a HUGE amount of cap space going into this summer and not even they can get a big name, maybe "big markets" are a dying breed and the almighty dollar rules... We'd probably get better players if there was no salary cap because of Paul Allen alone.

 

[Natebishop3]

With all these deals, the NBA should just eliminate the salary cap. I mean, look at LA they had a HUGE amount of cap space going into this summer and not even they can get a big name, maybe "big markets" are a dying breed and the almighty dollar rules... We'd probably get better players if there was no salary cap because of Paul Allen alone.

Remove the salary cap. Remove the restrictions on trades. Remove the crap about buying draft picks. Teams should be able to sell or trade the rights to players. They should be able to trade bird rights and RFA rights. Open up the market Silver!