Official Speculation Thread (Pt. XXXVII Off-Season Edition)

[rcklsscognition]

Larry Coon ‏@LarryCoon

Looking like we have a winner. RT @stanfordkp: what do you make of this new dwight offer by hou?

[Ahmadab]

Larry Coon ‏@LarryCoon
Looking like we have a winner. RT @stanfordkp: what do you make of this new dwight offer by hou?

[BelgianMagic]

I can't see how Chicago won't match Asik. He's a very important player/flopper & Noah never plays 82 games

Because if they match Asik they think Gibson will ask for the same kind of deal next summer.

If both of them get 8m/year, those are both reasonable contracts IMO ..

If they wanna keep contending, they gotta pay ..

[TDJacksonville]

Larry Coon ‏@LarryCoon
Looking like we have a winner. RT @stanfordkp: what do you make of this new dwight offer by hou?

wats the latest offer look like?

[rcklsscognition]

Watch our new rookies today at 3PM EST in the Rockets summer league game.

Houston Rockets vs. Toronto Raptors
3 p.m. ET

Isn't that game at 6pm?

I don't know, that's a direct cut and paste from bleacher report.

[Ahmadab]

Larry Coon ‏@LarryCoon
Looking like we have a winner. RT @stanfordkp: what do you make of this new dwight offer by hou?

wats the latest offer look like?

Houston officials, though, remain steadfast in their belief that, even if the Bulls decline to match on Asik, they'll be able to absorb at least three of the four aforementioned Magic role players: Richardson, Davis, Duhon and Turkoglu. Sources say the Rockets would have to send Kevin Martin, Patrick Patterson, Marcus Morris and Chandler Parsons to the Magic from their current roster to make the salary-cap math work, as well the draft rights to Jeremy Lamb, Royce White and Terrence Jones, all selected in last month's first round.

[BadMofoPimp]

Asik is alright, but he is not worth that kind of money. If I was the Bulls, I wouldn't match either.

[jernigan]

Watch our new rookies today at 3PM EST in the Rockets summer league game.

Houston Rockets vs. Toronto Raptors
3 p.m. ET

Isn't that game at 6pm?

I don't know, that's a direct cut and paste from bleacher report.

It's 6 p.m. ET

first non-magic s.l. game I'll be watching

[jbar]

As decision on Asik nears, Bulls trying to cut salary

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/basketball/bulls/ct-spt-0713-bits-bulls-chicago--20120713,0,4783892.story

[bigmoe1952]

Rockets play Toronto at 6pm Eastern time on NBA TV.

[BelgianMagic]

I don't know, that's a direct cut and paste from bleacher report.

Maybe they meant 3pm pacific?

I included today's schedule in the Summer League thread, took the schedule from NBA.com. They have the Rockets game at 6pm ET

[BelgianMagic]

Brian K. Schmitz ‏@MagicInsider
Magic chairman Dan DeVos shows up for Summer League, sitting next to GM Rob Hennigan. Hmmmm.

[jbar]

Another thing to remember is that there are no reports of Scola's amnesty being a done deal. None. Everything you'll read just says the Rockets are considering it or on the verge of it, which tells you a) it's related to the Dwight Howard talks, and b) that Houston won't just give away a big asset without knowing it's part of this bigger picture.

I think it's safe to deduce that if Scola is amnestied, a trade with Orlando will be a lot closer to actually going down.

[rcklsscognition]

I don't know, that's a direct cut and paste from bleacher report.

Maybe they meant 3pm pacific?

I included today's schedule in the Summer League thread, took the schedule from NBA.com. They have the Rockets game at 6pm ET

I believe you guys, Bleacher Report just got it wrong. My bad. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1257 ... -on-friday

[MoMM]

I can't see how Chicago won't match Asik. He's a very important player/flopper & Noah never plays 82 games

Because if they match Asik they think Gibson will ask for the same kind of deal next summer.

If both of them get 8m/year, those are both reasonable contracts IMO ..

If they wanna keep contending, they gotta pay ..

I think Asik is a little bit overpaid, i'd say 6M a year is a good number.

The problem is that they already pay Boozer 15M, Noah 11M, Deng 13M and Rose 15M. That's too much money in 6 players (assuming they match Asik and offer the same kind of deal to Gibson).

[rcklsscognition]

Isn't Asik's offer is 5 mil, 5 mil, and 14 mil? Cap hit on deal is 8 mil beacause it is averaged over life of deal.

[RickB-Orlando]

Just do like they did to Ba Baracus in the A-Team sneak seditives in his food.

I love it when a plan comes together...

[p0peye]

No one should be mad about Houston not taking back Hedo's deal. Turk only has $6 million guaranteed remaining on his contract next summer. Plus, Hedo is still more than useful for us.

Also, don't expect Morey to include Parsons in any trade scenarios.

Exactly. We have to spend $49.34M on this year roster to loose as many games as possible. We need overpayed players on short contracts.

[TDJacksonville]

Larry Coon ‏@LarryCoon
Looking like we have a winner. RT @stanfordkp: what do you make of this new dwight offer by hou?

wats the latest offer look like?

Houston officials, though, remain steadfast in their belief that, even if the Bulls decline to match on Asik, they'll be able to absorb at least three of the four aforementioned Magic role players: Richardson, Davis, Duhon and Turkoglu. Sources say the Rockets would have to send Kevin Martin, Patrick Patterson, Marcus Morris and Chandler Parsons to the Magic from their current roster to make the salary-cap math work, as well the draft rights to Jeremy Lamb, Royce White and Terrence Jones, all selected in last month's first round.

SO we got

2sgs
2sfs
3pfs(i think marcus and Jones are better PFs than SF)

definitely no need to bring FRAN over with that amount of bigs coming back

[jadewbj]

Just do like they did to Ba Baracus in the A-Team sneak seditives in his food.

I love it when a plan comes together...

He's on the Jazz man....