2014 NBA Off-Season; Paul George suffers a double-compund-fracture, likely out for season. Speedy re

[antidope]

Oh god.

Please don't bring that nonsense into this thread.

It already has enough nonsense.

 

[jinkazama]

DO YALL REALLY THINK PARSONS IS WORTH THAT MONEY?

Heck no...he'll never be a 20/10 guy nor is he a franchise player. He's a good player that'll have a solid career, but he ain't worth 15 mil a year. Part of this is personal between Cuban and Morey though. Living here in Houston it appears they have some history and bad blood between them.

 

[do work son]

smh at rockets fans turning their back on parsons


parsons >>>>>>>>>>>>>> ariza

turn our backs on him? he accepted an offer at midnight

i'm not mad at him for taking his money, but the **** he's saying is so stupid. he was offended because we tried to get melo or bosh. what he doesn't realize is that, we weren't trying to get them to replace him. we were trying to get them "first" because the salary cap structure only allowed us to maximize our cap by doing so.

to make matters funnier, he says the mavs made him a priority, they didn't wait on bosh and melo.... yeah chandler, because melo and bosh already said no to them.

even without all that, here's a player going into his 4th season who will turn 26 this year. he averaged 16 points a game. never eem sniffed an all star game. to be offended that a team tried to get melo bosh or lebron? multiple time all stars and all nba selections? i applaud the confidence, but know your role

Houston MAY have done the right thing in not matching..


however, they didn't need to be in that position in the first place.. they could have had parsons for this upcoming season for under a mill 

it was a miscalculated risk. no one expected a max offer sheet to come through.

there's also speculation that letting parsons out of his deal early was a hush condition in dwight coming to houston. both share the same agent.

 

[N41D]

Daryl Morey taking jabs at Cuban and the Mavs...

Those won't help you win in the first round either, boss.

 

[Vincent Van Goat]

 
however, they didn't need to be in that position in the first place.. they could have had parsons for this upcoming season for under a mill 

Yep I agree on this. Houston initially confused me by letting Chandler explore restricted free agency.. did they really think nobody would offer Chandler at least 10 mill? I didn't understand the logic behind this from the very beginning.

 

[dt43]

Parsons is mad that the Rockets were pursuing big name free agents, does he not realize that the Mavs were pursuing Lebron, Bosh, Melo as well? Chandler Parsons was not any team's first choice



I think dude let all the hype get to his head. Not to bring race into it, but he probably has people in his ear telling him he can be the next marketable white superstar.. all that modeling and whatnot has him feeling himself

 

[coldcity]

"Parsons Disappointed with Treatment by Rockets"
http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterocke...h-treatment-by-rockets/#24999101=8&24500103=0



This dude Parsons is feeling himself. I'm all for having confidence but you were seriously "offended" the Rockets went after Melo and Bosh cause you thought you were already that third star

Come on bro...you haven't even made an all-star game yet you think the team should have ignored that Bosh and Melo?! You really expected that management wasn't going to try and improve a 4th place team in the West that got beat down by Portland in the FIRST ROUND!

Cuban has got this guy gassed.

"Parsons Disappointed with Treatment by Rockets"
http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterocke...h-treatment-by-rockets/#24999101=8&24500103=0



This dude Parsons is feeling himself. I'm all for having confidence but you were seriously "offended" the Rockets went after Melo and Bosh cause you thought you were already that third star

Come on bro...you haven't even made an all-star game yet you think the team should have ignored that Bosh and Melo?! You really expected that management wasn't going to try and improve a 4th place team in the West that got beat down by Portland in the FIRST ROUND!

Cuban has got this guy gassed.

mustve been some real good coke cuban gave him..... feeling himself too much

 

[Hank Scorpio]

Parsons is mad that the Rockets were pursuing big name free agents, does he not realize that the Mavs were pursuing Lebron, Bosh, Melo as well? Chandler Parsons was not any team's first choice



I think dude let all the hype get to his head. Not to bring race into it, but he probably has people in his ear telling him he can be the next marketable white superstar.. all that modeling and whatnot has him feeling himself

Isn't that a bit presumptive? No one knows what he's thinking.

I think in reality, he's just a young guy in the NBA that just got out of his rookie contract and is finally getting handsomely compensated for his work. No on here would ever react the opposite way Parson is reacting.

The kid went from making $700k a year to $14 MM. You guys need to chill

 

[illoquent aka dsk]

I posted this a couple days ago but here's some background on the Morey vs. Cuban beef. This happened last offseason when teams were angling for Dwight and Golden State had just acquired Iggy.

Never say Houston Rockets  general manager Daryl Morey didn't try.
While appearing on a panel at the 2014 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Morey admitted that he phoned Dallas Mavericks  owner Mark Cuban about a possible Dirk Nowitzki  trade over the summer.

From Pro Basketball Talk's Brett Pollakoff:

“This is where my emotion takes over,” Morey said. “I go into a complete panic. I really did. I thought it was down to us, Dallas, L.A.”

So Morey called Mark Cuban to try and poach his franchise superstar.

“I was like, ‘Well, you’re not getting Dwight Howard. Can you trade us Dirk Nowitzki?’” Morey said. “It was a bad moment for me.”

A really bad moment, considering that Howard had already informed Dallas that he was signing elsewhere, even though Morey hadn’t been made aware of his decision just yet.

Morey's desperation was apparently in response to the Golden State Warriors' acquisition of Andre Iguodala. He thought his arrival made the Warriors favorites to land Dwight Howard.

The Warriors didn't have the cap space to sign Howard outright, but they had the assets necessary to broker a sign-and-trade with the Los Angeles Lakers. Iguodala arguably made someone like Klay Thompson or Harrison Barnes expendable, so his fear wasn't necessarily unfounded. 

But what Morey did was gutsy, if not completely ignorant.

Nowitzki is about as untouchable a player there is in the NBA. No matter what Morey was offering Dallas, some part of him had to know that Cuban wasn't going to deal him.

Not to mention his initial approach was somewhat tactless.

Reminding or informing Cuban that he was going to miss out on Howard would never help advance negotiations. All it was ever going to do was send Cuban into a fit of rage.

Which is exactly what it did.

Back in November, Cuban told ESPN Dallas' Tim MacMahon  about Morey's Nowitzki-related inquiry, and Cuban wasn't happy.

"Definitely. And I don't blame them," Cuban said when asked if he thought Houston was rubbing its acquisition of Howard in his face. "That's fine. But payback is a b---h."

 

[do work son]

at the end of the day it works out for both teams. he would've been grossly overpaid in houston relative to our cap. had we signed bosh, we would've matched parsons and had that been our core for the next 3 years. when bosh backed out, morey wasn't comfortable locking in a roster centered ONLY around harden howard parsons.

it works in dallas because dirk takes a huge pay cut. after this year, tyson chandler's 15 million comes off the books. they'll be in good shape.

 

[coldcity]

I posted this a couple days ago but here's some background on the Morey vs. Cuban beef. This happened last offseason when teams were angling for Dwight and Golden State had just acquired Iggy.

[QUOTE url="[URL]http://bleacherreport.com/houston-rockets[/URL]"]
Never say Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey didn't try.

While appearing on a panel at the 2014 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Morey admitted that he phoned Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban about a possible Dirk Nowitzki trade over the summer.

From Pro Basketball Talk's Brett Pollakoff:


“This is where my emotion takes over,” Morey said. “I go into a complete panic. I really did. I thought it was down to us, Dallas, L.A.”

So Morey called Mark Cuban to try and poach his franchise superstar.

“I was like, ‘Well, you’re not getting Dwight Howard. Can you trade us Dirk Nowitzki?’” Morey said. “It was a bad moment for me.”

A really bad moment, considering that Howard had already informed Dallas that he was signing elsewhere, even though Morey hadn’t been made aware of his decision just yet.


Morey's desperation was apparently in response to the Golden State Warriors' acquisition of Andre Iguodala. He thought his arrival made the Warriors favorites to land Dwight Howard.

The Warriors didn't have the cap space to sign Howard outright, but they had the assets necessary to broker a sign-and-trade with the Los Angeles Lakers. Iguodala arguably made someone like Klay Thompson or Harrison Barnes expendable, so his fear wasn't necessarily unfounded. 

But what Morey did was gutsy, if not completely ignorant.

Nowitzki is about as untouchable a player there is in the NBA. No matter what Morey was offering Dallas, some part of him had to know that Cuban wasn't going to deal him.
Not to mention his initial approach was somewhat tactless.

Reminding or informing Cuban that he was going to miss out on Howard would never help advance negotiations. All it was ever going to do was send Cuban into a fit of rage.

Which is exactly what it did.

Back in November, Cuban told ESPN Dallas' Tim MacMahon about Morey's Nowitzki-related inquiry, and Cuban wasn't happy.

"Definitely. And I don't blame them," Cuban said when asked if he thought Houston was rubbing its acquisition of Howard in his face. "That's fine. But payback is a b---h."

[/quote]

i love Morey hes a G

 

[38816]

Man don't put Denver in that ****

lmao i call them that cause JR kenyon and others all resigned with the knicks. knicks traded 4 starters to the nuggets, and the nuggets just resigned as knicks

 

[pmatic]

NBA Targets Doubling of TV Rights Fees in Talks With Disney, Time Warner Units (Report)[/size

The National Basketball Association is targeting to double the TV rights fees it gets from Walt Disney's ESPN/ABC ‎and Time Warner‎'s Turner Broadcasting unit under its current deals that run through the 2015-2016 season, the Wall Street Journal reported.‎

The paper said the companies are in preliminary talks about extending the current deals that see‎ Disney paying around $485 million annually and Turner $445 million per year.

Doubling the fees would mean the deals would be worth nearly $15 billion over eight years, the term of the current agreements, according to the Journal.

Sports is considered a rare form of content that still draws big live TV audiences in an age of audience fragmentation and digital options, which has driven up the cost of sports rights.

But the rightsholders are expected to push for as small a fee increase as possible, and the length of new deals could also possibly change.‎ Turner has been using the fact that it has NBA rights to get higher carriage fees from pay TV operators.

In a possible change from the current deals, Turner is pushing to get a piece of the best-of-seven NBA Finals, according to the Journal.

For example, the two rightsholders could alternate finals coverage from year to year or divide up coverage of each year's finals series.

The league can only negotiate a finals split if it fails to reach a new deal with Disney.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nba-targets-doubling-tv-rights-718612

Wooooo.

 

[jbc908]

And Disney would be ESPN right?

 

[hand2handking]

tnt with the finals 

 

[pmatic]

Yes, Disney is ESPN/ABC.

 

[bilboshmangins]

When Lebron is done playing Ball, He's going to have surpassed Jordan. Jordan's name will always be synonymous with GOAT, but 2 generations of Jordan watchers have passed away in my lifetime and Jordan still reigns. Lebron, when he retires I will have watched him in 2 different decades. I'm 35 now, when I'm 55 65 and more, The conversation between Lebron Kobe and Jordan and who was the best, Lebron is going to be the answer

 

[freeze]

And Disney would be ESPN right?

yes. and abc.

 

[victor page]

Dion Waiters is one hatin *** ***** 

Son probably watching the Cavs summer league games praying Andrew Wiggins gets hurt.

 

[robin thicke]

 

When Lebron is done playing Ball, He's going to have surpassed Jordan. Jordan's name will always be synonymous with GOAT, but 2 generations of Jordan watchers have passed away in my lifetime and Jordan still reigns. Lebron, when he retires I will have watched him in 2 different decades. I'm 35 now, when I'm 55 65 and more, The conversation between Lebron Kobe and Jordan and who was the best, Lebron is going to be the answer

YUP. LEBRON AND MJ THE BEST PLAYERS TO EVER DO IT

HEHEHEHEHE

 

[jinkazama]

Isn't that a bit presumptive? No one knows what he's thinking.

I think in reality, he's just a young guy in the NBA that just got out of his rookie contract and is finally getting handsomely compensated for his work. No on here would ever react the opposite way Parson is reacting.

The kid went from making $700k a year to $14 MM. You guys need to chill

...but we do know what he's thinking he said so in the article. I don't think anybody has a problem with him getting paid, but to think you are on the level of a Melo or Bosh is crazy when you avg 16/5 and are a 3rd option on a 4th place team. I've watched Chandler play a lot, he's a good player. He's not a GREAT player

Unlike Dallas Houston had a real shot of landing Melo/Bosh and came damn close... Morey would have been crazy to not try and get one of those guys. They didn't throw Chandler away they were just trying to get a max guy first. Had they landed one they would have matched him. Morey didn't disrespect him, Cuban has just filled this dudes head up.

 

[robin thicke]

CUBAN IS THE REAL G IN THAT BEEF

 

[Ja's 2¢]

TNT and the NBA Finals. Pinch me.

NBA should seriously alternate the Finals like how the NFL does with the Superbowl. Tired of seeing ESPN's horrible crew doing the games.

 

[freeze]

 

When Lebron is done playing Ball, He's going to have surpassed Jordan. Jordan's name will always be synonymous with GOAT, but 2 generations of Jordan watchers have passed away in my lifetime and Jordan still reigns. Lebron, when he retires I will have watched him in 2 different decades. I'm 35 now, when I'm 55 65 and more, The conversation between Lebron Kobe and Jordan and who was the best, Lebron is going to be the answer

View media item 1079391

YUP. LEBRON AND MJ THE BEST PLAYERS TO EVER DO IT



HEHEHEHEHE

Mike, Kobe And Magic the best players to ever do it. Lebron is a pretty good player too.

 

[jinkazama]

Dion Waiters is one hatin *** ***** 

Son probably watching the Cavs summer league games praying Andrew Wiggins gets hurt.

What'd Waiters do