catch20two wrote:There's not a team in the league that'll take Messy Marv's mess off our hands for the next 2 years at his current price tag. You see ESPN ranked him like the 230-something ranked player in the league. Nobody's lining up to pay that 7 mil a year. We're stuck with him and hopefully he can at least make 3s at 35% or better because that'll be the ONLY thing he might be good for at the PF position. He could be a good community guy too with his NC roots.
First off, there is no contract that is untradeable. If Gilbert Arenas got traded after basically not playing the three previous years, while still getting 20 mil, everyone can be traded.
Second off, this is nowhere near that kind of a bad deal. It's coming off the books in two years and everyone likes shooting. The contract even ends right before the new TV deal. There's no reason to treat this contract as if it was cancer. Every single other team in the league is either paying more for their starting power forward or they have a guy on a his rookie deal (with plenty of them bound for bigger contracts) except only McRoberts at Miami who's at 6 million or whatever.
I guess you can't appreciate the fact that we got what we desperately needed and only made a 2-year (an important number since that's when Al's contract, if he takes the player option, comes off the books, that's when Lance's contract can come off the books and that's when we'll be able to extend some of these youngsters. it will be an important summer for the franchise's future plan)
commitment to Marvin in the process. Would you rather have Channing Frye, already injured before the season, for 32 million and 4 years?
Other teams are out there paying around 10 million and having their hands tied with longer deals. Not to mention that the majority of those forwards wouldn't fit us either because of the defensive shortcomings (which is important when playing with Al, at least Marvin could move around and has mobility.. I rather have that than two behemoths) or because of their lack of range (what we so desperately need by signing Lance).