i see lebron's meetings going like this with every team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftsMze0WOw4

7/1/2010 1:33:19 PM

Rudy Gay going to sign max deal w/ the Grizz

7/1/2010 2:51:13 PM

My sources say less than max, something like 5/80

7/1/2010 2:54:48 PM

all's i seen is "Grizzlies commit to max deal for Rudy Gay, taking him off the market. Story up soon on NBA.com"

7/1/2010 2:56:29 PM

oh so your sources are mainstream media



lol

7/1/2010 2:59:49 PM

i wouldn't call the logo himself mainstream

7/1/2010 3:04:22 PM

Quote :

"Jul 01, 2010 2:52 PM EST Rudy Gay and the Grizzlies have agreed to an $81.6 million contract over five years, his agents have confirmed. "

As usual, suck my dick

7/1/2010 3:10:00 PM

get a room

7/1/2010 3:11:23 PM

oh someone watches hoopsnotes ... good for them

7/1/2010 3:19:28 PM

Leave the updates in this thread to the experts

7/1/2010 3:25:34 PM

why would david aldridge say one thing somewhere and another thing elsewhere is what i wanna know

7/1/2010 3:27:13 PM

David Aldridge hasn't been relevant in years, not since "Towel-gate" in the Clippers locker room back in '06 or 7.

I get my news from people who know what the fuck they're talking about, like Brian Windhorst, Jonathan Givony and Rick The Ruler Bonnell

7/1/2010 3:29:37 PM

I know you can't scoff at $16M a season, but you'd think he'd give a discount to other teams trying to sign him just so he didn't have to live in Memphis

7/1/2010 3:51:38 PM

He was restricted

Memphis can match any offer

7/1/2010 3:54:31 PM

He should agree to a one year deal with another team then

7/1/2010 3:56:33 PM

phil jackson will be back with the lakers next year

7/1/2010 4:50:48 PM

Niggets looking to trade Carmelo? Knicks may be in the mix. Please Please Please

7/1/2010 5:00:21 PM

more like Kniggs

7/1/2010 5:01:09 PM

I'd love to see the Niggets thing made by a legit writer

He would say the keys are right next to each other, but he could never live it down

7/1/2010 5:04:26 PM

darko 4 yrs 20 million in minnesota!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

where the fuck does the madness end? We've seen so many terrible deals already..

Joe Johnson, Rudy Gay, Darko!??!?!?

7/1/2010 5:26:26 PM

highly sought-after Brian Zoubek signs with the Nets after Jay-Z makes his pitch

7/1/2010 6:21:03 PM

ric bucher is an awful sportscaster

7/2/2010 12:15:44 PM

can't wait until most of the big time free agents stay with their current teams and nothing really huge happens.

bosh will leave toronto, and amare probably leaves phoenix, Boozer might jump ship too. Those are the only big name free agents who will probably leave

7/2/2010 12:17:25 PM

^pierce reportedly agrees to deal with celtics

7/2/2010 12:32:38 PM

all of the big free agents should start their own team this year and run shit

7/2/2010 12:36:58 PM

Quote :

"can't wait until most of the big time free agents stay with their current teams and nothing really huge happens."

yeah, kinda like all the massive college conference realignment that was supposed to make a 16 team PAC-10 and ACC, and disband the Big East, etc

the more ESPN hypes stuff up, and the less stuff happens, the more I lol at ESPN

7/2/2010 1:04:05 PM

Pick out the fake NBA signing from today: J. Johnson: 119m. Gay: 80m. Amir Johnson: 34m. C. Frye: 30m. A. Morrison: 25m. Darko: 20m.

7/2/2010 5:00:28 PM

the stache

7/2/2010 5:04:19 PM

Steve Blake 4 yrs $16MM with the Lakers

7/2/2010 7:10:12 PM

people are saying amare is getting a max deal with the new york knicks, they better get another franchise guy to go with him or they are idiots

7/3/2010 4:44:53 PM

Quote :

"Pick out the fake NBA signing from today: J. Johnson: 119m. Gay: 80m. Amir Johnson: 34m. C. Frye: 30m. A. Morrison: 25m. Darko: 20m."

All of the "signings" are fake. Nobody can sign until July 8th, genius.

7/3/2010 4:48:57 PM

I'm very cautiously optimistic that LBJ is gonna stay in Cleveland. None of the other teams have "out of the park" deals to offer him. If he stays in Cleveland he will get more money, he'll still have a great team that is very close to a championship, him and his group of family/friends will still be treated like royalty (even moreso if he comes back), and it will be easier for him to say no to other cities than it will be to say no to cleveland. He will be a villain to the people of cleveland and ohio if he leaves, the people of chicago, miami and new york wont feel the same way since he wasnt guaranteed to be there in the first place.

Sure Chicago sounds like they can make a great team if he goes there, I just think they would have to offer up a deal that is absolutely impossible for him to turn down for him to leave Cleveland.

thats the end of my objective, slightly homer swayed analysis

7/3/2010 7:58:10 PM

great team?

7/3/2010 8:57:20 PM

I like Chris Bosh, but him holding up LeBron and Wade is like Don Cheadle standing in the way of Ocean's 11 being made.

7/3/2010 9:33:32 PM

^^^^http://twitter.com/sportsguy33

[Edited on July 3, 2010 at 10:35 PM. Reason : a]

7/3/2010 10:35:19 PM

joe johnson to the hawks, what a waste, they are just going to be four seeds for the next five years now, I was hoping he would be a sidekick to wade or lebron

7/5/2010 3:32:55 PM

Thanks for leading us to that 4 game 2nd round sweep when we lost by 20+ per game and you scored just 12.8 points per game on 30 percent shooting. Here's $119 million. Keep up the good work.

7/5/2010 4:13:45 PM

i wonder who will be first player willing to accept a max contract with the bobcats in the next few years now that they are starting to be relevant (i.e. playoff-bound...and whenever they ever get the cap space)

not knowing how long LB will be there, though, last year might have been the top of their potential for a while


ive been watching all these dunk contests on NBA tv the past couple of days and wonder if Charlotte will ever get an all-star weekend again. phoenix has had it twice since 1991 (and LA and Orlando twice as of 2011 and 2012, resp.)

7/5/2010 4:22:50 PM

way too much for amare, maybe I'll be proved wrong, he's a good player but I don't think he's worth 5 years 100 mil.

7/5/2010 8:07:08 PM

has anyone been signed for offered the $ that they are actually worth yet?

[Edited on July 5, 2010 at 8:09 PM. Reason : no one's been signed yet]

7/5/2010 8:08:58 PM

I think Amare is getting overpaid. He did have microfracture surgery, and he has had his share of injury concerns. He doesn't rebound well enough for a PF, and he doesn't have an affinity for defense.

Amare, even with the surgery, is explosive and a superior athlete to Lee, but I think I'd rather have Lee. Better midrange game, plays harder and rebounds better, and is as much a defensive liability as Amare.

7/5/2010 8:44:19 PM

david lee is a bitch. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaENn-7t_hk

7/5/2010 10:31:31 PM

David Lee is obviously worth more than Stoudamire will be over the next few years.

The Knicks don't care about winning they just like to make news.


The Joe Johnson signing is terrible, they should have let him go and built around their best two players Smith/Horford. They could have brought Childress back for 40% of the money and used the other 60% to land a decent PG now that Bibby is unplayable.

Quote :

"I just think they would have to offer up a deal that is absolutely impossible for him to turn down for him to leave Cleveland."

Dude c'mon just stop. My girlfriend understands how this works better than you do. This isn't baseball.

7/6/2010 12:06:43 AM

Amare for 5 years 100 million or Johnson for 6 years 119 million

Which of these do you think we will be laughing at harder in 2013?

The Johnson signing bothers me more, because they've already had him for 5 years...they know exactly what he can and can't do, and at 29, he's not going to get any better.

At least with Amare, its a new team and there will be a honeymoon period, but like rally said, David Lee is a better player and would have come cheaper.

7/6/2010 9:26:15 AM

I think one of the most under reported things of this whole saga is the Wolves' willingness to trade Al Jefferson in order to free up room for David Lee or someone else. Jefferson is making 42 mil over the next three years, but this is a 25 year old guy who averages 20/10. He's a younger Amare who actually defends. I know Minnesota is a wreck, but giving this guy up just to clear some cap room seems like another step in the wrong direction.

and more shitting on the Johnson deal, from Professor Hollinger himself

Quote :

" Virtually every shred of evidence indicates that Johnson's next six years will be dramatically worse than the previous six. He's 28 years old and already has more than 25,000 minutes on his odometer. Trolling through my similarity database, I find that the 10 most comparable players are Michael Finley, Richard Hamilton, Jalen Rose, Vince Carter, Jamal Mashburn, Steve Smith, Glen Rice, Jerry Stackhouse, Allan Houston and Glenn Robinson. None of them made an All-Star team after age 30. Johnson will be paid like an All-Star -- check that, a superstar -- until he's 33."

[Edited on July 6, 2010 at 10:11 AM. Reason : x]

7/6/2010 10:00:53 AM

what was Atlanta supposed to do, let Johnson walk and go back to 5 years ago when they were the worst team in the NBA?

7/6/2010 12:09:30 PM

They should have let him walk and signed Lebron to 2 max deals combined. Seriously though, Tree may have a point. Joe completely had Atlanta by the balls. If they are going to throw a max deal at someone, he may have been the only guy willing to play for Atlanta.

But imo its just another pre gun Gilbert Arenas situation. The Hawks have officially peeked.



[Edited on July 6, 2010 at 12:28 PM. Reason : f]

7/6/2010 12:24:11 PM

The Knicks kind of had to throw a max offer at Amare or someone they knew they could get. Its very possible they dont get any of the names they were going after...and after showering New York with all these glossy stories of how they were going to bring in these huge free agent names, Lebron James, Chris Bosh, etc...if they came back with David Lee again and jack shit to go with him...there would be riots.

7/6/2010 1:35:32 PM

http://twitter.com/kingjames

He's getting nearly a thousand followers per minute currently.

7/6/2010 1:42:32 PM

schefter claims it's verified .. but it doesn't have that official verification checkmark yet

7/6/2010 1:48:32 PM