Player buyouts: Richard Hamilton edition

[indiegrind]

rip the the bulls would make the eastern playoffs pretty serious.

[BDM22]

No chance he is bought out with the possibilities a new CBA brings. You think he'll help your team get "over the hump"? Great, then trade for him.

[ropjhk]

With the lockout coming I don't think there is ANY chance that a player with 2 years left on his contract gets bought out. The Pistons are better off keeping him and they wouldn't have to pay any of his salary next season for the time the players are locked out. But if they buy him out now then they don't get any of that money back.

Winner.

The Pistons would be foolish to buy him out just before a possible lockout.

That said, they should try to somehow trade him. He's wasting away on the bench and can still produce good numbers for the right team when motivated.

[dVs33]

Rip isn't gonna get bought out that's for sure.

I say trade him to NOH for expiring scraps like Green, banks and Anderson and everyone's happy.

[markdeez33]

if he goes to the celtics, the c's will have two of the best players in the NBA at moving without the ball in rip & ray allen... it would be poetry in motion!

[RTM]

$12.5 millions this season, $12.5 millions next season, $12.5 millions ($9 millions guaranteed) in the following one.

0% chance of a buyout.

Add in a pending ownership change, the potential impact of a new CBA, and the fact that he'd have to give up an insane amount of money for an NBA player to give up, and 0% seems about right.

[Train Wreck]

$12.5 millions this season, $12.5 millions next season, $12.5 millions ($9 millions guaranteed) in the following one.

0% chance of a buyout.

Add in a pending ownership change, the potential impact of a new CBA, and the fact that he'd have to give up an insane amount of money for an NBA player to give up, and 0% seems about right.

Exactly. Karen Davidson is not going to buy him out now and the new ownership (whenever it happens) won't be taking over the team any time soon. Unless Rip were to leave a ton on money on the table ala Derek Fisher, than he's going no where.

Theres gotta be a trade out there somewhere as Rip can still play. Something like Rips 12.5 million traded for a 5 million dollar expiring and someone else's multi-year garbage contract. That way, they still have a bad contract but knock off 5 million or so from a player than don't seem to want to use.

It really is a shame that Chicago doesn't have anything that would work with Detroit. IMO, he is an ideal fit there.

[triplet1984]

Hamilton is not going to get bought out folks.

If Boston wants him, they can trade an expiring to get him

[Cliff Levingston]

It really is a shame that Chicago doesn't have anything that would work with Detroit. IMO, he is an ideal fit there.

No, it's not a shame that the Bulls don't have any putrid contracts.

[Train Wreck]

It really is a shame that Chicago doesn't have anything that would work with Detroit. IMO, he is an ideal fit there.

No, it's not a shame that the Bulls don't have any putrid contracts.

Is it a shame that they don't have any shooting guards and therefore are going no where?

BTW, the contracts of Luol Deng and Carlos Boozer aren't very good and will prohibit the Bulls from making that next step.

[Harry_Seaward]

ray allen, von wafer, and rip hamilton all on the court running around in circles off screens RONDO would find the open man every time

make this happen

I agree and that would be a lockdown defensive line-up as well.

[Meeks]

If he goes to the C's, Wade will be one tired-ass mofo, to have to chase Ray Allen and now Rip through all those screens. Good luck to you sir.

[droponov]

Lockout, ownership, whatever, they'd complicate a on the fence situation (say, if Hamilton was in the last year of his contract), but in this case further complications are unnecessary. Guys who agree to buyouts are generally in the last season of their contracts or have small salaries. Or are complicated cases like Jamaal Tinsley, who was taking the Pacers to arbitrary court, was forbidden from frequenting their facilities and didn't have any trade value whatsoever (and had spent like 2 years without practising and playing). And even in an extreme case like Tinsley, I doubt they'd have agreed to a buy-out if his contract was as large as Rip's.

[Magilla_Gorilla]

It really is a shame that Chicago doesn't have anything that would work with Detroit. IMO, he is an ideal fit there.

No, it's not a shame that the Bulls don't have any putrid contracts.

Is it a shame that they don't have any shooting guards and therefore are going no where?

BTW, the contracts of Luol Deng and Carlos Boozer aren't very good and will prohibit the Bulls from making that next step.

Yeah. Probably. Hell of a situation the Bulls find themselves in. All that talent. A couple of bad contracts. All those wins.

Christ. What a time to be a Bulls fan.