is there another tony parker hidden somewhere that the w’s can sign?  i’m very worried about the team now.  this does leave the door open for jason kidd to come home for a season or 2 and be the pure pg that he is.  i’m sure it would be next to impossible to get him from dallas considering cuban and nellie’s relationship though.

W should not panic. This is a re-building year. They should not lock themselves into any stupid long term contracts.

Kidd is washed up. No more old ass players unless they sign for 1 year only.

^so you’re not re-upping your season tickets?

^ Nope.

They didn’t make the playoffs. Their star player is gone. And they’ve increased the ticket price by 100% in past 2 years.

I’ll probably just buy individual tickets.

so, the w’s are making an offer to brand. Warriors make big offer to Brand, sources say
five-year deal worth between $85 and $90 million

Wow, Brand would be so awesome in Oakland. Hope he signs.

I’m part of the TANK brigade.  Fuck gimpy brand. 

Monta-Jax-AR-BW-Beans

II stix - 02 July 2008 12:16 PM

Wow, Brand would be so awesome in Oakland. Hope he signs.

That would be hilarious. It’d be like a trade but everyone gets paid less money.

Goodbye Seattle Sonics!

If I had the Gus Williams, Jack Sikma Miceky D’s glass from when I was a kid, I would raise it to you.

This sucks.

I already had to resort to driving the 3 hours across the border to Seattle to watch an NBA game.... now the next closest team is like Portland....

^ there is still the WNBA.  Go seattle Storm!

dude, i’ll head up and maybe we
can meet up to do a roadtrip to
catch a portland game or two. d
has a friend from that area so we
wouldn’t have to go in blind

negitoro - 03 July 2008 02:15 PM

This sucks.

I already had to resort to driving the 3 hours across the border to Seattle to watch an NBA game.... now the next closest team is like Portland....

Chris Duhon signed with NY. That’s 1 less PG to make room for D Rose. Duhon is a good true PG as long as they can keep focus.  They should name the Knicks, the New York Ex-Bulls, since they also have Curry and Crawford.

wasabi, you excited about who the sixers could get?

76ers Expand Cap Space—Clips, Hawks Beware
Posted Jul 8th 2008 2:38PM by Tom Ziller
Filed under: 76ers, Hawks, Timberwolves, Warriors, Clippers, Minnesota, Philadelphia

Via The700Level, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports reports a rumored deal between Philadelphia and Minnesota has gone down, sending Beautiful Calvin Booth, Rodney Carney and a pick to the Wolves for nothing but a $2.8 million trade exception. The real prize for Philly general manager Ed Stefanski: even more salary cap breathing room to chase someone like Elton Brand or Josh Smith. Here’s Woj:
Getting Carney and Booth off the cap gives the Sixers the chance to offer a starting salary of approximately $14 million a season.
If Atlanta wasn’t going to match a contract starting at $11 million for Smith (a disputed rumor), will they even be able to play a straight face if the Sixers offer something like a flat $13 million per year, five-year contract? Or, Philadelphia could go big in year one—$14.75 million is the max for a four-year veteran, but Stefanski expects to have $14 million as stated above—and taper the contract down to $12 million by the final year.

For Brand, the 76ers could now offer about five years, $80 million ... which is right in the middle of the Clippers’ ($70 million) and Warriors’ ($90 million) offers. Watson wrote about the expanded interest in Brand last night; now, that interest has a feasible outlet.

^ yeah.  i’m worried about brands age in terms of the length of the contract and the fact that he is coming back from a major injury.  but i’m glad to see that the team is willing to take a gamble.  i don’t know if josh smith would be better in the long run versus brand