Official 2012 Free Agency Thread/All Non-Hornets FA/trade posts here {merged}

[da_freshness]

"The sh**'s chess, it ain't checkers!" Alonzo Harris, Training Day -2001 and Bryan Colangelo -2012 Free Agency.

[BallSoHard]

Going hard after Nash and Fields.

They took Fields by offering a contract they can't match who was the Knicks only bargining chip outside of Shump who they don't want to give up.

[Attila The Hun]

Wait, what are the Raptors doing to mess up the Knicks? I havent been following the story.

The Knicks wanted to include Fields as part of a sign-and-trade with the Suns for Nash (meaning the Knicks could pay Nash a reasonable salary).

The Raptors are offering Nash 12mil per season, which the Knicks can't match. As soon as they heard about the Knicks potential deal, they offered Fields a heavily back-ended 3 year deal, which he's apparently agreed to..

Hehe Raptors, stick it to the Knicks!

[DroopyDawg]

The Knicks wanted to include Fields as part of a sign-and-trade with the Suns for Nash (meaning the Knicks could pay Nash a reasonable salary).

The Raptors are offering Nash 12mil per season, which the Knicks can't match. As soon as they heard about the Knicks potential deal, they offered Fields a heavily back-ended 3 year deal, which he's apparently agreed to..

Hehe Raptors, stick it to the Knicks!

Oh that's just wrong... but I love it! LOL! Now I'm just hoping for Ray Allen to go back to Boston.

[BallSoHard]

Oh that's just wrong... but I love it! LOL! Now I'm just hoping for Ray Allen to go back to Boston.

It's being rumored that Jason Terry is close to a deal with Boston.

[FlyGirl]

Yep.

Free agent guard Jason Terry is closing in on a three-year contract with the Boston Celtics, sources close to the situation confirmed Tuesday.

Terry's offer from the Celtics is believed to be for the full mid-level exception of $5 million annually.

http://espn.go.com/boston/nba/story/...ct-sources-say

[Big-EZ]

Yep.



http://espn.go.com/boston/nba/story/...ct-sources-say

Dallas is crumbling, Hornets are coming to take their place

[Hornets2013]

Nash would be great for the Knicks, and specifically for Lin. Nash would be a good Linfluence.

[Miss_318]

Nash would be great for the Knicks, and specifically for Lin. Nash would be a good Linfluence.

Just heard on the radio Lin's meeting with the Rockets...

[FlyGirl]

Celtics and Terry reach deal.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--ce...son-terry.html

[FlyGirl]

Reggie Evans on the move to Brooklyn?

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA
Brooklyn is finalizing a sign-and-trade deal with the Los Angeles Clippers for Reggie Evans, league sources tell Y! Sports.

[Coughka]

Knowing this off-season he's probably getting the max

[DroopyDawg]

It's being rumored that Jason Terry is close to a deal with Boston.

Done deal (verbal) but the Celts are still after Ray Allen too.

[FlyGirl]

Adrian Wojnarowski ‏@WojYahooNBA
Brooklyn has agreed to a 3-year, $5M sign-and-trade for Reggie Evans, sources tell Y! The Clippers will get a distant future 2nd round pick.

[Miss_318]

Done deal (verbal) but the Celts are still after Ray Allen too.

if they end up keeping Ray too...the Heat are gonna be really salty LOL.

[Attila The Hun]

Whoa.. Howard, Evans and Wallace together on the boards..

Seems like they're already working out their Miami-type roster signings

[Luke's Pelicans]

Whoa.. Howard, Evans and Wallace together on the boards..

Seems like they're already working out their Miami-type roster signings

very slim chance of them getting howard at this point.

[Attila The Hun]

very slim chance of them getting howard at this point.

Ja I know, but it'll depend on the offers I guess, who 'cracks' first.. if they could get Bynum, they should probably do it (damn you Lakers)

[Snarly]

Ja I know, but it'll depend on the offers I guess, who 'cracks' first.. if they could get Bynum, they should probably do it (damn you Lakers)

I doubt L.A. is willing to give up Bynum for a rental. If they were, I would imagine the deal would be done already. It looks like Orlando's only options are to deal with teams who would accept a rental or make a deal with the nets. Orlando has no leverage whosoever.

[Attila The Hun]

I doubt L.A. is willing to give up Bynum for a rental. If they were, I would imagine the deal would be done already. It looks like Orlando's only options are to deal with teams who would accept a rental or make a deal with the nets. Orlando has no leverage whosoever.

If Orlando traded Howard to LA, and the Lakers 'rented' him for a season, would it be possible for Howard to still make it back to the Nets? The only way he can do it now is as part of a trade (providing the Nets can sign and trade Lopez and Humphries), or so at least that's the impression I got. If he goes to the Nets as a FA, they'll have like 5-10mil to offer him at the most I would think?

Howard could of course walk out on LA for someone other than the Nets, but who?..

[Snarly]

The Lakers currently won’t accept a trade for him without getting more years tacked on to the one he has left (for $19.5 million).

http://www.latimes.com/sports/lakers...,7220021.story
A rental just isn't going to happen.

[Hornets2013]

Dwight Howard must be starting to get pissed.

[The JNR]

Dwight Howard must be starting to get pissed.

"Man, this bed I made really sucks to lie in!"

[rebelman]

What is with Howard and Brooklyn? Most of the big FAs that make big fuss about going to bigger markets would be thrilled with the Lakers

[Mr. West]

There must be bad blood between Dwight and Kobe for him to hate the Lakers this much and claim to want to go to a big market... Or maybe he's in love with Williams?