LOL. Toronto offering Hedo $60 million?

[B-Roy]

Is this the same Quick who has reported on two seperate occasions today that Toronto is preparing a 6 year 60 million contract to Hedo, and also that Toronto was out of the Hedo sweepstakes?


I like Quick though. It's good to hear something

Don't care. It's slow this time of year.

Gimme some rumors, even if they are BS!

 

[PapaG]

Gimme some rumors, even if they are BS!

I just heard from someone who heard from someone that a certain famous player may be considering a trade to a team that we know well.

 

[Erroneous Subterfuge]

Don't care. It's slow this time of year.

Gimme some rumors, even if they are BS!

Heard the one about Artest going to Cleveland?

 

[Minstrel]

I just heard from someone who heard from someone that a certain famous player may be considering a trade to a team that we know well.

Link?

 

[B-Roy]

Quick said nothing about the Hedo situation we didn't already know.

Although he did say Blake/Outlaw for Miller was a no go according to two sources.

Says Blazers FO is completely sold on Hedo.

 

[oldmangrouch]

That is my question to you . . . does a 70 mil dollar contract over 6 years for Hedo "improve the team"?

We already offered 50 million . . . should KP up the offer to lock in Hedo?

Except that there are other options besides "overpay Hedo" and "give up and do nothing."

If Hedo becomes too pricey, I would hope that KP has a back-up plan! If he doesn't, then yes, the failure to get a deal done would be a failure on his part.

 

[Idog1976]

I think Memphis is going after Lee according to hoopshype rumors. That would eliminate them as well.

Frankly, I don't want a player here who would choose to go to Memphis anyway. The money is more, and I know that's important, but no chance at all to win. I want guys like Bayless who would kill and eat his family to win a game.

Let's be honest, Bayless would kill and eat his family for 20mpg.

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

reports are Detroit is signing Charlie V.....

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

@InsideHoopsThe AP, and Ken Berger (CBS), say the Detroit Pistons also have an agreement now with Charlie Villanueva

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Except that there are other options besides "overpay Hedo" and "give up and do nothing."

If Hedo becomes too pricey, I would hope that KP has a back-up plan! If he doesn't, then yes, the failure to get a deal done would be a failure on his part.

I'm sure KP has a back up plan . . . whether he can execute it is another issue.

I think KP will get a free agent (that is the easy part) and then make a trade using the trade exception with a financially strapped team. My stab in the dark will be Nash.

As much as I'm trying to cut KP a break, knowing it isn't as easy as it sounds to get things done . . . KP has been talking about this summer for a long time and if nothing happens, I think I will be in your camp (failure to improve the team rests on KP doing nothing this summer) . . . luckly that won't happen.

 

[alex42083]

@InsideHoopsThe AP, and Ken Berger (CBS), say the Detroit Pistons also have an agreement now with Charlie Villanueva

Did you just use Twitter speak to write that out?

 

[Boob-No-More]

So what the fuck?


Which one is it? Is it prepared to offer, or out of the running?


Christ Quick!!!!!!

Neither. It sounds like Quick just made up a rumor about Toronto offering Hedo $60 million to get people mentioning his name, and then followed that up by breaking the news that Toronto isn't in the running for Turkoglu.

I thought that "rumor" was bogus from the start. Hedo at $60 million in Toronto makes absolutely no sense. Their roster has so many holes, adding an overpaid Hedo doesn't come close to making them contenders, and would severly hamper their rebuilding efforts when Bosh leaves next summer.

Quick's initials should be BS. Seems like he's trying to become Portland's version of Peter "Assflake" Vescey.

BNM

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

Nope. This would be twitter speak. RT @alex42083 Did you just use Twitter speak to write that out?

 

[alex42083]

Nope. This would be twitter speak. RT @alex42083 Did you just use Twitter speak to write that out?

haha OK. I still don't get it.

 

[BTOWN_HUSTLA]

too hard to explain.

I basically copied the tweet from InsideHoops. When you put the @ symbol infront of InsideHoops that is basically the source of the "tweet".

If you see your post, I have @alex42083 which means you were the source, the content that follows is what you wrote.

RT is "retweet", which is essentially like quoting you. What I put before "RT" is what my "tweet" is.

 

[Nikolokolus]

This might be a moot point depending on the mixed messages being put out about Toronto's interest in Hedo, but here's another wrinkle to think about if Toronto were actually commited to offering Hedo a 5 year 60 million dollar deal; once you factor in Ontario's total sales tax of 13% (provincial and Federal) and the slightly higher income tax rate in Canada, just how much difference would there be between the two deals? My hunch is that it narrows the gap considerably between the two offers supposedly out there.

If somebody is an expert in the Canadian tax code and wants to break it down it could be illuminating.

 

[andalusian]

If somebody is an expert in the Canadian tax code and wants to break it down it could be illuminating.

We are doing are best here: http://sportstwo.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2056079&postcount=5

 

[Nikolokolus]

We are doing are best here: http://sportstwo.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2056079&postcount=5

Thanks. Damn, there's too much shit to keep track of around here sometimes

 

[Chutney]

This might be a moot point depending on the mixed messages being put out about Toronto's interest in Hedo, but here's another wrinkle to think about if Toronto were actually commited to offering Hedo a 5 year 60 million dollar deal; once you factor in Ontario's total sales tax of 13% (provincial and Federal) and the slightly higher income tax rate in Canada, just how much difference would there be between the two deals? My hunch is that it narrows the gap considerably between the two offers supposedly out there.

If somebody is an expert in the Canadian tax code and wants to break it down it could be illuminating.

I think most NBA players don't qualify as permanent residents, as long as they spend a certain amount of time out of the country (away games + offseason). As a result, the tax difference isn't all that different from most US states. I'm not sure if that's the exact way they work it out, but I do know that Colangelo and the Raptors front office have always told incoming players that they can navigate around our higher tax rates. We were talking about it in the Raptors forum a while back (link).

Also, there's no way this rumour was ever legitimate. I can tell you confidently that the Raptors have planned to try and re-sign Marion for months now. There's no way they'd just throw that away on July 1st, abandon all their current free agents, and overpay Hedo. I think Colangelo's gotten in contact with Hedo's agent, as a backup plan if Marion goes elsewhere. But that's it.