OT: Joe Johnson to Nets

[magnifier661]

This has a Howard smell to it. JJ will make enough salary with the addition of brook Lopez to get Howard and a bloated contract. I think they are giving the green light because they will have a decent talent and above average center for Howard. Why not?

 

[magnifier661]

They couldn't have both Wallace and the pick. They got one for the other.

People in this thread belittle Brooklyn for paying Wallace $10M, but our team will pay more to a worse player, Batum.

God I hope not

 

[jlprk]

This has a Howard smell to it. JJ will make enough salary with the addition of brook Lopez to get Howard and a bloated contract. I think they are giving the green light because they will have a decent talent and above average center for Howard. Why not?

Everyone's saying how stupid Brooklyn is, but they forget that before each acquisition, they ask Orlando, would you like this player included in the Howard trade?

 

[Draco]

Everyone's saying how stupid Brooklyn is, but they forget that before each acquisition, they ask Orlando, would you like this player included in the Howard trade?

And Orlando said yes to Joe Johnson's $100million contract? I think not.

 

[PapaG]

Everyone's saying how stupid Brooklyn is, but they forget that before each acquisition, they ask Orlando, would you like this player included in the Howard trade?

Orlando wants Gerald Wallace for 4y/$40m?

 

[PtldPlatypus]

They couldn't have both Wallace and the pick. They got one for the other.

How quickly some people forget. The pick was top-3 protected; if it had landed in the top 3, they would have had Wallace and the pick, and we would have gotten their pick (likely in the 20s) next year.

 

[Draco]

Larry Coon just said Nets only used tax payers MLE on the Russian, so they don't have a hard cap. They can do a sign and trade of something such as Humphries, Lopez, Marshon, 3 picks for Dwight and Hedo's contract. I'd expect Dwight to end up in Brooklyn in a few days and replace Lebron as the most hated player in the NBA.

Larry Coon ‏@LarryCoon
Okay, since I've been cagey about it all day, but now the news is spilling -- yes, the Nets got Teletovic for the $3.09M non-taxpayer MLE.

Larry Coon ‏@LarryCoon
...and when I said "non-taxpayer MLE," I meant "taxpayer MLE." In other words, Nets will NOT have a hard cap at about $74.3 million.