Whiteside staying in Miami

[Schilly]

Nah was never on Olive, started at Fanhome

 

[e_blazer]

A top 5 FA not coming here? I personally can't even believe this

Whiteside is staying with the Heat. Batum is staying with Charlotte. DeRozan is staying with Toronto. Sounds like Durant is staying with OKC and I'm sure James is staying with the Cavs. There does seem to be a trend.

EVERY FA IS SPURNING THE BLAZERS! !!!

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Whiteside is staying with the Heat. Batum is staying with Charlotte. DeRozan is staying with Toronto. Sounds like Durant is staying with OKC and I'm sure James is staying with the Cavs. There does seem to be a trend.

EVERY FA IS SPURNING THE BLAZERS! !!!

The sky is falling, the sky is falling! and the Blazers are moving to Seattle!

 

[Mediocre Man]

The sky is falling, the sky is falling! and the Blazers are moving to Seattle!

You're kind of hyperboling here. No one is saying the sky is falling, just pointing out.....yet again, Portland not a big time FA destination. Parsons is a good player, but a role player, who is about to get 24 m per after two knee surgeries

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

My guess is that Neil found out Whiteside wanted to stay in Miami so he changed his plans and went to visit Parson's first instead.

Although, getting another SF/PF doesn't make as much sense without a massive defender on the team, at least to me it doesn't. I'm a little bit shell-shocked. I guess the fact that my hapless Cleveland Indians won 13 straight got me a little too optimistic.

 

[blue9]

Figured as much. I thought it was MIA with an outside shot for POR if he felt "unappreciated" by MIA.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Although, getting another SF/PF doesn't make as much sense without a massive defender on the team, at least to me it doesn't. I'm a little bit shell-shocked. I guess the fact that my hapless Cleveland Indians won 13 straight got me a little too optimistic.

With good perimeter defenders, a rim protector becomes less important

 

[UKRAINEFAN]

With good perimeter defenders, a rim protector becomes less important

Well, yeh, but where are they?

 

[Boob-No-More]

Interesting that Whiteside sites stability as the reason he's staying in MIA. There's probably more uncertainty in MIA than just about everywhere else. Will Bosh be able to play again? Wade is threatening to leave because MIA won't pay him. What is the status of Joe Johnson and Amar'e Stoudemire? Luol Deng is also a free agent. All those guys are well past 30. Hell, even Goran Dragic, is 30 (I'm surprised he's that old). Does Whiteside think these guys are going to play forever?

Other than Whiteside, here are the ages of every Heat player that started more than 8 games:

Goran Dragic: 72 ganes started, age = 30.056
Gerald Green: 14 games started, age = 30.157
Luol Deng: 73 games started, age = 31.076
Chris Bosh: 53 games started, age = 32.099
Amar'e Stoudemire, 36 games started, age = 33.228
Dwyane Wade, 73 games started, age = 34.166
Joe Johnson, 24 games started, age = 35.002

If that isn't a roster that's ripe for some turnover, I don't know what is. So much for stability (and winning). Florida really is where old people in the East go to retire. At least half those players will probably be gone within the next couple weeks and not a single one will be around for the duration of Whiteside's contract. In terms of starters, MIA is older than SAS. At least they have Kawhi and Danny Green in their 20s.

He got paid the max and that seems to be his motivation. MIA is overdue for a major rebuild, and it won't be pretty. Because, they play in the East, they can limp into the playoffs with an over-the-hill roster, but have zero chance to contend for a title and no lottery picks (for another year, or two) to help restock the cupboard.

Whiteside chose losing over winning. As long as he's in MIA, they will probably never go as far in the playoffs as they did this past season. He signed to stay with a roster in rapid decline that will take years to rebuild. Oh well, as the geriatrics around him retire and move on, at least he will get to be "the man", albeit, on a crappy team. But, that is the lot he has chosen. He could have had equal money and played for a winner, but he chose not to. We were the youngest team to make the playoffs and already better than MIA. He chose to stay on a team in decline, rather than join a team on the rise. Fuck him.

BNM

 

[Natebishop3]

Yeah I'm guessing Neil didn't want to play the bargaining chip for whiteside so he focused his energy elsewhere.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

Yeah, he probably goes out and buys a $30 mil house on Star Island or wherever embracing the Florida lifestyle, then get traded to Memphis after a couple of years, and goes broke...

The Whiteside quotes and the whole twitter era reminds me of the whole Oracle at Delphi: "I am a business man who plays basketball." That could have meant Portland or Dallas or any number of places, really. In reality, it meant that we was going to use Dallas as leverage to get a max where he was already at.

Interesting that Whiteside sites stability as the reason he's staying in MIA. There's probably more uncertainty in MIA than just about everywhere else. Will Bosh be able to play again? Wade is threatening to leave because MIA won't pay him. What is the status of Joe Johnson and Amar'e Stoudemire? Luol Deng is also a free agent. All those guys are well past 30. Hell, even Goran Dragic, is 30 (I'm surprised he's that old). Does Whiteside think these guys are going to play forever?

Other than Whiteside, here are the ages of every Heat player that started more than 8 games:

Goran Dragic: 72 ganes started, age = 30.056
Gerald Green: 14 games started, age = 30.157
Luol Deng: 73 games started, age = 31.076
Chris Bosh: 53 games started, age = 32.099
Amar'e Stoudemire, 36 games started, age = 33.228
Dwyane Wade, 73 games started, age = 34.166
Joe Johnson, 24 games started, age = 35.002

If that isn't a roster that's ripe for some turnover, I don't know what is. So much for stability (and winning). Florida really is where old people in the East go to retire. At least half those players will probably be gone within the next couple weeks and not a single one will be around for the duration of Whiteside's contract. In terms of starters, MIA is older than SAS. At least they have Kawhi and Danny Green in their 20s.

He got paid the max and that seems to be his motivation. MIA is overdue for a major rebuild, and it won't be pretty. Because, they play in the East, they can limp into the playoffs with an over-the-hill roster, but have zero chance to contend for a title and no lottery picks (for another year, or two) to help restock the cupboard.

Whiteside chose losing over winning. As long as he's in MIA, they will probably never go as far in the playoffs as they did this past season. He signed to stay with a roster in rapid decline that will take years to rebuild. Oh well, as the geriatrics around him retire and move on, at least he will get to be "the man", albeit, on a crappy team. But, that is the lot he has chosen. He could have had equal money and played for a winner, but he chose not to. We were the youngest team to make the playoffs and already better than MIA. He chose to stay on a team in decline, rather than join a team on the rise. Fuck him.

BNM

 

[Mediocre Man]

 

[Ripcity4life77]

You cannot get upset with a guy staying loyal to a team that brought his career back from the dead so i wish Whiteside the best of luck accept against the Blazers.

However poor Cuban and the Mavs -- Rebuffed by Whiteside and Batum is re-signing with the Hornets -- LOL

 

[KeepOnRollin]

You cannot get upset with a guy staying loyal to a team that brought his career back from the dead so i wish Whiteside the best of luck accept against the Blazers.

However poor Cuban and the Mavs -- Rebuffed by Whiteside and Batum is re-signing with the Hornets -- LOL

I hope the Mavs get Conley actually. Would not be enough for the Mavs to jump up in standings and would hurt the Grizzlies of course and almost guarantee that Chandler comes to POR as well.

 

[SwissBlazer]

Still trying to figure if it's a good or a bad thing.

 

[Natebishop3]

He was only going to leave if Miami wouldn't max him. He used Dallas as the nice guy best friend to make Miami jealous. Didn't Cuban hear that nice guys finish last?

 

[riverman]

It is what it is...he doesn't want Portland, I don't want him anymore..simple..next

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

Any PDX chance was always contingent on Miami NOT offering max. I wanna see how Riley manages Wade now. He's gonna have a difficult job.

 

[BBert]

Those of you upset we didn't get to the table, Dallas was his leverage to get the Heatvto max him out we were the backup leverage. If Dallas hadn't offered a max he would have visited us to leverage a max out of Miami.

He actually had no interest in leaving the Heat.

Obvious to some of us at least.

He was never an option. And Olshey knew it, or he wouldn't have offered the max to Parsons.

 

[BBert]

Nah was never on Olive, started at Fanhome

Me too.

 

[Natebishop3]

Miami is gonna suck. Watch Wade leave and Bosh retire.