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

ThatFloridaDude · Post #901 » by **ThatFloridaDude** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:24 am

SOUL wrote:Can we stop posting twitter reports period until Dwight's actually traded?

IT WASNT A TWITTER REPORT.

Chet Wagner · Post #902 » by **Chet Wagner** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:24 am

Durant/Westbrook/Harden/Ibaka and Scott Brooks for 1 year of Dwight and Duhon

LETS GET IT

Post #903 » by **Def Swami** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:25 am

Chet Wagner wrote:Now it's Westbrook..jesus christ

Next it's gonna be Durant

He changed it to include Westbrook?

the-diesel · Post #904 » by **the-diesel** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:26 am

meatwad4343 wrote:
the-diesel wrote:
ThatFloridaDude wrote:to you guys on here Is a Harden/Ibaka Package better than a Houston package?

To me i don't care as long as he is out west.

Swap Westbrook with Harden, and we have ourselves a midseason trade.

But as of now, I prefer Houston's offer, just like the possibilities.

westbrook would be amazing though. i think he is every bit as good as derrick rose. that's someone we can build around.

Agreed. Too bad OKC knows this...

arsenal6106 · Post #905 » by **arsenal6106** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:27 am

SOUL wrote:Can we stop posting twitter reports period until Dwight's actually traded?

Defeats the whole purpose of this thread.

MagicTownBaller · Post #906 » by **MagicTownBaller** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:28 am

arsenal6106 wrote:
SOUL wrote:Can we stop posting twitter reports period until Dwight's actually traded?

Defeats the whole purpose of this thread.

+1

OrlandO · Post #907 » by **OrlandO** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:30 am

ThatFloridaDude wrote:
OrlandO wrote:
ThatFloridaDude wrote:Random: Are the Magic the only team on twitter with over a Million followers? They are trouncing the other teams WOW

Lakers. But yeah, we have a solid fanbase on Twitter. I'm sure that's partly due to not having an NFL, NHL or MLB team...

Well I checked all sports. Couldn't find another team in NHL, NFL, or NBA or MLB with a Million followers. Yankees dont even have a million.

Of course except Lakers with 2. something million.

What I'm saying is we don't have any other pro sports teams... probably makes it easy for average fans to pick a sport/team to follow.

Post #908 » by **SOUL** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:31 am

You can speculate without finding *random twitter putting up BS trades from "sources"*

****, we can do that.

MagicFan41 · Post #909 » by **MagicFan41** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:32 am

The Rockets are getting Rick (@RickHouTX) in the deal too!!!

ThatFloridaDude · Post #910 » by **ThatFloridaDude** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:34 am

OrlandO wrote:
ThatFloridaDude wrote:
OrlandO wrote:Lakers. But yeah, we have a solid fanbase on Twitter. I'm sure that's partly due to not having an NFL, NHL or MLB team...

Well I checked all sports. Couldn't find another team in NHL, NFL, or NBA or MLB with a Million followers. Yankees dont even have a million.

Of course except Lakers with 2. something million.

What I'm saying is we don't have any other pro sports teams... probably makes it easy for average fans to pick a sport/team to follow.

I Disagree. Orlando with it's success and having one of the top 5 most popular players in the world wouldn't have anything to do with a sports team. People follow a lot of things they are interested in.

My guess too is that we have one of the most active reporting teams reaching out to people. IDK if you believe in researches and all but Orlando is also one of the top 10 or 15 tech cities in the country.

Just my guess though.

The Effect · Post #911 » by **The Effect** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:37 am

MagicFan41 wrote:The Rockets are getting Rick (@RickHouTX) in the deal too!!!

NOPE!
We veto that if hes included!

TSKD000 · Post #912 » by **TSKD000** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:37 am

I agree with other posters wanting to take a chance on Greg Oden...give him a 3 year/ $9 million contract with a team option for the last two years. Could pay of HUGE. If he doesn't pan out, only out one year this coming season and that is nothing.

ThatFloridaDude · Post #913 » by **ThatFloridaDude** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:38 am

Interesting. I'll sign on later. I'm going to try to figure out where Ping's sources are from.

TSKD000 · Post #914 » by **TSKD000** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:39 am

looking ahead...what potential lottery teams might would want KMart? or is it more realistic to assume a contender would come calling for him and thus a crappy draft pick + young player?

Hater_X · Post #915 » by **Hater_X** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:40 am

TSKD000 wrote:I agree with other posters wanting to take a chance on Greg Oden...give him a 3 year/ $9 million contract with a team option for the last two years. Could pay of HUGE. If he doesn't pan out, only out one year this coming season and that is nothing.

LMAO at some of you wanting Greg Oden. If some of you consider Andrew Bynum as Grant Hill part deux, then WTF is Greg Oden?

T-Rob · Post #916 » by **T-Rob** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:42 am

Anyone got a quick recap of the last ike 6 hours? So many pages to search through!

TSKD000 · Post #917 » by **TSKD000** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:44 am

Hater_X wrote:
TSKD000 wrote:I agree with other posters wanting to take a chance on Greg Oden...give him a 3 year/ $9 million contract with a team option for the last two years. Could pay of HUGE. If he doesn't pan out, only out one year this coming season and that is nothing.

LMAO at some of you wanting Greg Oden. If some of you consider Andrew Bynum as Grant Hill part deux, then WTF is Greg Oden?

ummmmm if we are rebuilding and tanking this year what is the harm in gambling?? If he signed to the contract i said and he gets injured or sucks, we are out $3 million in a year where we have TONS of cap space. who cares? IF he pays off, it could be huge for us.

magic111 · Post #918 » by **magic111** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:47 am

Alex Kennedy‏@AlexKennedyNBA

The Houston Rockets' official Twitter account just followed Hedo Turkoglu too. They're trolling us, right?

OMG Hedo too. Omg their going to take our entire team...HAHHAHAH...for those who thought this Rockets twitter thing REALLY meant something..lol

Hater_X · Post #919 » by **Hater_X** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:49 am

LMAO at some of you wanting Greg Oden. If some of you consider Andrew Bynum as Grant Hill part deux, then WTF is Greg Oden?

ummmmm if we are rebuilding and tanking this year what is the harm in gambling?? If he signed to the contract i said and he gets injured or sucks, we are out $3 million in a year where we have TONS of cap space. who cares? IF he pays off, it could be huge for us.

Lets just say for fun if it was your money that was being spent on this team. Would you be so cavalier with 9 million dollars then? Hey I have a Ferrari on sale for 50,000 but it has a bad transmission and frame damage. How bout it?

MagicFan41 · Post #920 » by **MagicFan41** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:53 am

TSKD000 wrote:looking ahead...what potential lottery teams might would want KMart? or is it more realistic to assume a contender would come calling for him and thus a crappy draft pick + young player?

Yeh, I don't really understand this idea of a lottery team wanting KMart. Why would they really give up a good draft pick for him?? And what valuable piece is a contender going to give up to us for him? I think the smartest move is simply to keep him as an expiring and use that large cap space to go after a top free agent.