OT: 2010 FA Thread (Latest: Haywood, $55/6 to Dallas)

[KB24Gold]

WTF when I 1st saw it, he had 15,000 now it's over 65,000

I can't wait for this media frenzy Lebron FA ends.

[DubaLakers]

Right Now where do you see the big three falling?

Me...

LBJ stays in CLE. No one wants to go to CLE, lol. You have to be born in Ohio to stay in Ohio.

Wade & Bosh go to CHI.

MIA, NJN will have to go to plan B. It seems clear to me, they have the same agent, their buddies, that Bosh & Wade don't get seperated, Wade has his kids in CHI with their nutty Mom. That be a great case for Wade to get full custody of his kids as well that he'll be in CHI permanently. Hard to belive Riley loses out on Wade, but it's looking strong today. Reinsdorf is known to be money tight though, that may concern for these FA as far as building around the two.

Why would NY get Amare before Wade or LBJ made their decision? They must have been turned down hush hush (no media) style right? There's gotta be some communication between the courting teams management and FA player to make such a big decision right? NY must know they aren't going to get either.

I guess we'll find out this stuff all after the fact.

[DubaLakers]

WTF when I 1st saw it, he had 15,000 now it's over 65,000

I can't wait for this media frenzy Lebron FA ends.

It doesn't really bother me at all. I rarely watch sportscenter anymore. I watched NBA playoff bball, ESPN News for the postgame pressers, Justified, Dan Patrick Show, and World Cup...Go Espania! That's it. I've seen less than 10 minutes of FA talk via the TV.

To me it's exciting to follow, see where they land, but what pisses me off is the way the $ is being distributed. Amare 100M, that's just stupid. It just blows me away these GM's and owners do this for a living and are too impatient, or make poor choices rather than work smarter. These GM's need to open a realgm account and ask us for feedback, we can steer them in the right direction.

We are so fortunate to have the roster we have, and the quality of players at the top we have. We need to throw a party for Laker management and players Thank you for not getting yahoo's to come to our team. Thank you for getting it.

[KB24Gold]

^ I agree no major worries here for the Lakers. Good times are rolling. With that being said, I agree that LeDiva will stay in Cleveland (hyped it up for attention) wade will re-sign in miami. Bosh will go to Miami, and Boozer Chicago.

I 90% sure LeBron will stay.

[DubaLakers]

QUESTIONS

Here's what I don't understand. Why are guys like Amare signed, before James or Wade has made their decision?

Same with the PHX guys (Warrick, Frye), why are they signed before Dirk eventually chose Dallas when supposedly PHX was trying to make a play to reunite him with Nash.

Both Dallas & NY had to be tipped off by the player or his agent right? Why else would they do the plan B deals?

[Gek]

QUESTIONS

Here's what I don't understand. Why are guys like Amare signed, before James or Wade has made their decision?

Same with the PHX guys (Warrick, Frye), why are they signed before Dirk eventually chose Dallas when supposedly PHX was trying to make a play to reunite him with Nash.

Both Dallas & NY had to be tipped off by the player or his agent right? Why else would they do the plan B deals?

NYK want a Big 3... so they still have two spots left. They signed Amare as bait for LBJ.


Warrick and Frye realized that's the money they were going to get.


It's a business... no one ever expected Dirk to leave Dallas or really, Frye to leave PHX... moving your life isn't worth an extra 1.5 million IMHO.

[DubaLakers]

LBJ to announce on Thursday night his decision on live TV. Would he leave CLE if he was going to shame them on live TV? Hmm...

OR is he leaving forNYC and waiting until the camp in CLE is over so he doesn't get the wrath of the city? Hmm...

The thing about Lebron is he has a team of nincompoops handling him, and they make bad decisions together. So I'd think this is going to be another bad decision. However, they've had all this time to think about it, they can't screw up this time can they?

ESPN has been wanting to break this story so bad, wonder what it took for them to have him announce it on ESPN live?

[ALL HAIL]

LeBron is going to New York.

He's a Capricorn "social climber".

Everyone will say he doesn't really care about winning because of his decision, then the Knicks win over fifty games next year and they get substantially better after Curry is traded or comes off the books.

With all the press this is getting, he will own not only New York but the world after his announcement. This buzz will only get bigger after his announcement that he's going to the Big Apple.

I can feel it in my bones. All bets on ¬LBJ to NYC --- Wade and Bosh (and maybe even Mike Miller -- if Deng is traded) to Chicago.

New York is not as bad as everyone thinks with LBJ and Amare:

PG - Douglass - Rautins
SG - Chandler -
C - Stoudamire - Curry
PF - Gallinari
SF - James - Fields

Douglass and Gallinari will blow up playing next to LBJ.

[Gek]

News that should make Bulls' fans happy on espn.com shortly.

[Gek]

Bulls agree to 5 yr, $80 mil deal with Carlos Boozer. Bulls still have enough cap space to sign a max player.

[TonyMontana]

Bozzer for 5 yr $80 mil................ How sad. LMAO

[Gek]

Y! Sports Free Agency Buzz: Jermaine O'Neal leaning toward Celtics, Nets next move and more: http://tinyurl.com/3553wrh

[Gek]

Celts 2-yr deal with Ray Allen for $20 million (2nd year player opt) coming soon. Allen has always said he wanted to stay a C. No MIA, CHI

Looks like it will be another Lakers/Celtics battle...

[NBAWestFan]

Celtics reload w/ Vets and maybe get a big.

Lakers sign Blake is good but now need some insurance in case they have injuries.

Sign a Big that can play. If Bynum or Ron go down Odom will not be able to handle
down low alone and the Rookie Carater is young. Mebenga can't play in the playoffs.

Boston looks like a team to watch as they build their team with bigs again
cause they know that REBOUNDS and defense when championships.

Sign Fish and then get a Rebounder with a big body.

[Gek]

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nba/ne ... id=5364191

Center Brendan Haywood agreed to a six-year, $55 million deal to return to the Dallas Mavericks, according to two sources.

[Gek]

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