It's only a bad Demps move in hindsight. Kinda like that contract Durant just got will be called bad if he can't come back as before...in hindsight.Originally Posted by Taker597
But at that time, that was a reasonable, short term offer.
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It's only a bad Demps move in hindsight. Kinda like that contract Durant just got will be called bad if he can't come back as before...in hindsight.
But at that time, that was a reasonable, short term offer.
They already traded him to Chicago in January. They immediately waived him and he's been sat as a free agent since.
Basketball.
Boogie will end up on the Lakers for a minimum contract
I'm calling it now.
Lakers starting lineup next year
Rondo
KCP
Lebum
Ad
Cousins
2019-20 Lakers vs 2017-18 Pels
Rondo = Rondo
KCP < Jrue
Lebron >> Moore
AD = AD
Cousins < (pre-injury) Cousins
How is this team a title contender?
It is not.
If they don't get Leonard, they'll bid against themselves and overpay. He'll get the contract Dell offered him. 2yrs 40mil. Yuck
a team will sign boogie because he is a big that can bang with physical bigs......we know the lakers may sign boogie or magee to take the pressure off of AD so he wont have to get beat up in the paint........dallas may sign him also so the unicorn wont have to get punish in the paint....
Yep. There were tons of posters here who applauded Dell up and down for that trade. I was never a huge fan of it, mainly because I liked Heild and it was yet another first round pick thrown out be Dell. Give me Heild and Donovan Mitchell (who was still available at #10 when the Kings were in the clock with the traded pick) over Cousins all day. That trade had huge risk tied to it the moment it was official, and it backfired on Dell, which was to be expected.
The pair never had a full season together so no judgment can truly be made. Gentry’s system was not a good fit for Boogie, I agree. That is not Boogie’s fault. To say that the trade for Boogie was expected to backfire is still completely bogus.
I am not a Boogie super fan or anything. He generally seems pretty immature and petty. But, prior to his injury, Boogie was still a great NBA player.
i think its safe to say that all of us on this site believed that if we had a healthy boogie against the warriors in the second round of the playoffs that year,,we may have taken them out.......the warriors had no match up for AD and boogie.....
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Sure in hindsight anyone would rather have Heild and Donovan Mitchell. That said, at the time of the trade, Boogie was the best center in the game, no free agents were coming to NO, Heild was a 22 year old rookie, and NO ONE expected Mitchell to be as great as he is, and of course the Pels probably wouldn't have picked Mitchell anyway.
Its fun to live in a i would have rathered world, but there is little question the Boogie trade was the right move, it didn't work out, that sucks, but getting a 2nd top 20 NBA player in New Orleans was a chance that had to be taken.
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Nikola Mirotic went to play in the Euroleague and turned down a chance at 45-50 million in the NBA? Anyone knows why?
I'm looking for real sports fans...not sheep! Are you with me?!!!
He'd rather be in Europe.
im guessing part of the reason is he's making more than the 50mil he would have made here....being close to his family is another guess...
He'd get paid more in Europe and he gets to go home. Best situation for him and his family.
Barcelona( The Golden State Warriors of Spain) offered 79 million in American dollars.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comment...ver_six_years/
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Basically. If someone offered me that much money to go live in Barcelona for a few years, I think I could be persuaded to choose that over, say, Milwaukee.
Had no idea the Euroleague paid that much. Wow.
i remember when he was with the Kings, and if he had got along with everyone there, he could have gotten 200 million dollars.
or maybe 150 million, I am not sure.
Yep. Just like our team was on absolute fire before he was injured. We were even owning the league leading Rockets in the game he went down. History has a funny way of getting changed for how concrete it should be.
Show me a poster claiming they hated the Boogie trade, at the time, and I'll show you a liar.
Good positive energy.
But also, yo mama's fat.
I seem to remember there was at least one or two people on the board who didn't like it at the time. Can't remember who though.
They definitely weren't me. At the time, I had a few worries about specifics (fit, particularly, and pace) but I was still happy about it. Dell had to make that move. We're a team that's historically had trouble getting stars, and he made a move that gave up Hield (who wasn't doing that well for us at the time) and very little else to get a superstar. That was the right thing to do, and almost all of us thought so at the time.
Well... it seems that I cannot quote anybody so I will just reply regarding Mirotic.
Barcelona are not the Warriors of Spain. In fact, they are closer to the current Lakers. They are living their worst period in more than 30 years and they are desperate to come back and make some noise. For that reason, they are offering Mirotic a salary more than double of any player in Europe.
However, that's not so much in comparison with what he could have gotten in the US if you take taxes into account. In Spain, "federal taxes" will be 45% for him (and will jump soon to 48%). And you must add an additional 4% of "state taxes".
And finally, Mirotic is a former Real Madrid player. He played there since he was 14 until he departed to the NBA. Barcelona are the hatred arch-rivals of Real Madrid so he wouldn't sign there easily. It was even reported that he offered himself to Real Madrid before Barcelona jumped with that offer. It must have been a really difficult decision for him.
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