HomoSapien wrote:The loss of Asik hurts even more because of how non-existent Gibson has been. I always thought that we should've traded Taj and kept Asik --- we always knew that the likelihood of keeping both was slim. Thibs has said repeatedly that they always knew how good Asik was. If that's the case, why did they put themselves in a position to lose him for nothing?
I don't think that's fair. There were exactly one teams that understood how to screw over teams in the way that Houston did.
I might be really wrong (and I probably am) but I don't think the possibility of a team structuring the contract in the way that Houston did was mentioned outside of maybe one person at some point.