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Headache in a Suitcase said:
I assume this is in reaction to Isiah picking some guy nobody's ever heard of over Marcus Williams(who never should've fallen that far anyway).
Headache in a Suitcase said:
Headache in a Suitcase said:
yes, i watched it when it was on tv. it's a joke. trautwig was interviewing his boss, and a boss who if you say anything bad about him or the company, you get fired.
journalism at it's finest
Well at least he can get a $200 Target gift card from Mayor Mumbles if he turns his gun in.Headache in a Suitcase said:your boston celtics have traded the #7 pick to the trail blazers for sebastian telfair...
if you're looking for a reason why, i can't give you one.
I think Isiah thought it was Rolando Blackman and when the kid shows up at MSG he's gonna be like...who are you?Numb1075 said:
funny how that name is almost the same as Rolando Blackman
Numb1075 said:Headache, run out and get your Renaldo Balkman jersey before they run out.
funny how that name is almost the same as Rolando Blackman
8:59 -- The unequivocal highlight of the draft: Patrick throws it to the podium for Utah's pick, only Stern hasn't emerged from his secret lair yet, followed by Patrick filling time with "Where'd he go?" jokes, then Stern emerging, taking a dramatic pause and saying, "Dan, I was sitting in the back listening to your pithy comments." He actually seems ticked. Dan quickly fires back with an awkward "I like Paul Tagliabue better" joke. I feel like they're orchestrating this just to liven up my diary. It's too good to be true.
Big Ben to Bulls?
The Pistons will be better than the Bulls next year, but after that, I'd bet on Chicago eclipsing Detroit, with or without Ben Wallace.
The offers are roughly the same (DET: 4Y/$50M, CHI: 4Y/$52M), so if Big Ben's determining factor is on-court success, this sums up his choice:
(1) Try to squeeze out one more title with Detroit before decline begins? (Even '07 is no lock, given this year's fizzling finish.)
Or (2) join the rising Bulls (in the process helping them vault the Pistons) and be on the East's hot contender from 2008-10?
It's rare for a 32-year-old like Wallace to enjoy "upside" again, but the Bulls have it, and he should think hard about joining them for the ride.
(Update: Wallace's reaction to Detroit's offer isn't a good sign for the Pistons: "It was disappointing. It was not at all what I expected.")
speedracer said:Oh well. Enjoy him this year and next; there are no guarantees as to whether he'll still be any good after that.
LemonMacPhisto said:Tyson Chandler was traded to New Orleans for JR Smith and PJ Brown.
I really can't see many other teams better than the Bulls right now.
They did overpay Ben Wallace, but what can you do
Headache in a Suitcase said:
i can't wait to see chicago throw wallace, tyrus thomas and tyson chandler out on the court together, just to see if an NBA team can operate with three god awful offensive players on the floor at the same time.
60 million dollars for ben wallace ... bill russell must want to kill himself. on a side note, i heard isiah negotiated the contract for the bulls, free of charge. true story.
10PPGnamkcuR said:
Lakers, Radmanovic agree to 5yr/30M deal
namkcuR said:
We don't know how good(or not) Tyrus will be in the NBA, and Chandler will be traded.
namkcuR said:
The contract isn't that bad. Besides, this was the last major cap space we were going to have for the next four or so years, so might as well spend while we have it on the best FA availabe.
The reality that we in Chicago must wake up to now is that unless the Bulls replace Tyson Chandler with someone who can score in the post, the Ben Wallace deal is just an extraordinary waste of money.
Yes, it would be lovely to have Wallace in white, trimmed in red and black in Tyson's old uniform (No. 3), landlording the lane, but without someone in the four-spot putting the ball in the hole at a 15- to 18-ppg clip, the offer the Bulls just gave Wallace would be equivalent to Warren Buffett giving his billions to the James and Kristin Dolan Foundation instead of Bill and Melinda's.
Putting Wallace and his career 6.6 points per game (4.7 in the playoffs this year) at center alongside Chandler's career 7.1 ppg (and just 1.8 in the playoffs) is not the tandem that's going to make the Heat, Cavs, Pistons (especially since they immediately replaced Wallace with Nazr Mohammed), Wizards, Nets or any other team the Bulls might face in May feel shook. It's not what's going to get the Bulls past that first round.
Headache in a Suitcase said:
the contract is awful. i'm trying to figure out how you can say that radmonovic's contract is so bad, yet wallace's is good... we're talking of a man who's entire worth is based around his athletic ability on defense, who's now in his low 30s and has shown signs of losing said athleticism.
15 million per year a declining 7 and 11. now THAT is something you'll only see in america. on the last year of this contract, 35 year old ben wallace will be at around 5 and 8 per game. for 15 million per... unless of course it's backloaded, which many NBA deals are, in which case it'll be 5 and 8 for around 17 or 18 mill per year.
isiah would be proud.
here's the lovely thing about cap room... you don't have to use it. you can save it for next year. so now when big ben is averaging 5 and 8, getting paid 18 mill per, the bulls have a choice to either go way over the cap to resign all their young guys, thus killing their cap for another 10 years, or they let the young guys go and start from scratch yet again.
yup... isiah would be proud.