If they don’t use it, I say we start dumpcohan.com.

Maybe, cancohan.com

I copyright those websites. I’m sure two random comments on a blog constitute a legal contract anyway.

Reported on ESPN bottom line by Marc Stein…

So much for that 99% chance he wouldn’t opt out. First the Bulls win the lottery and now this. That’s it I’m taking the Browns to win the Super Bowl this year.

can you post a link of some sort i cannot find this

I don’t know if Cohan is cheap, but I don’t see what $10mil player is being dangled out there that would make this team into a championship contender. It’s all fine to criticize management in a vacuum for failing to spend, but who exactly are they supposed to spend the change on.

Fitz is toeing the company line to a degree, but it’s not wise to toss money at problems in the NBA. $10 mil/year players who will walk in and bump this team up 10 wins in the standings (which is what we’re talking about if we’re talking about being a championship contender) are not particularly common and other teams aren’t begging to give them away. The sub-$10mil/year players tend to fall into a few categories:

1. Guys who aren’t particularly useful or can be replaced for less. Sure, you might be able to find Austin Croshere type talent. Maybe Washington would send Songalia this way for essentially nothing. But why pay $5mil for him when it’s unlikely he’d help more than the vet min player you can get for, well, the vet min? Personally, if it’s down to the marginal talent, I’d rather see someone from the NBDL, if for no other reason than the unexpected is more interesting for a few days before we realize he sucks as much as Songalia would have.

2. Another type are those guys near $10 who WOULD make a difference. These guys are less common.

There are some of these guys, guys making less than $10 who could actually be an asset to the team. But when we look at these guys, we have to ask some questions. What is it going to take to get the guy? A team may be looking to shed cap dollars and may take a bargain, but it’s unlikely that a contributor is going to be free just because we have a TPE to absorb him with. The guys teams want to give away for nothing are usually even higher paid (and such more valuable to dump for a team looking to clear cap space) than the TPE can work for or totally worthless. Gasol you say? Not worthless, but cost a whole lot more. If the guy can actually help bring wins, other teams aren’t necessarily going to toss them out the door. Future picks or rookie scale players would likely go out. If this could result in an impact player, a starter good enough to displace an incumbent, it’s not a bad investment. But anyone want to swap Wright and some future pick(s) for the rights to pay Kirk Hinrich to play backup minutes behind Ellis and Davis?

3. Players making much less than $10 who can contribute. Since low price talent is at a premium, this isn’t going to come free either, since this is the sort of player that rebuilding teams want too. So there aren’t going to be a whole lot of these guys available either.

The cases where one might be available is in a rebuilding team with multiple talented guys at the position, like Memphis and their point guards or perhaps Charlotte and Felton now that they’ve gone after another PG in the draft. Still won’t be free though. It’s still not a case of simply asking for the player because we’ve got a TPE and Memphis will just want to give Lowry away because of this. (Remember-the TPE isn’t a thing to trade. It’’s space to make a trade work on our end. What the other team gets out of the deal is a function of their own cap realities.) The cheaper the player, the more it’s going to be either a player who won’t necessarily make an impact (like Lowry, someone who’s still in prospect space and could or could not help) or getting a more premium player, but at the cost of more picks or more young guys off of our roster. Add to it that the most likely way another team abides by this is if we are actually using the TPE to take on a bad contract. Say Memphis does feel they can deal Lowry, but only if we take on dead weight like Antoine Walker (who, I believe, gets his team option picked up if he’s traded, but don’t quote me on that.) Then it’s not cheap talent anymore.

So when thinking about the TPE and how “cheap” management is, remember it’s not just money in a vacuum. It’s money for a player, a player who very likely won’t bring a championship, and it’s probably going to take some degree of mortgaging the future in the form of picks heading out to even get the rights to one of these guys. Spending money foolishly for the sake of spending it never helped a team.

hopefully we signed Brand and pray for AR to turn himself into the next scottie pippen fast.

probable next yr line-up

PG. Monta(damn there going to be some ugly passing next yr)
SG. Action Jackson for now
SF. AR(hopefully learn how to play point forward )
PF.Elton Brand(hopefully we sign him now)
C. Beans

Bench
Biuke
Jimmy Hendrix
BrandanWright( well see how his slow development is going)
Baby Rocky( hopefully he improve from last yr.)
Al Harrington

hopefully signs
Chris Duhan( could plays back-up pg for 20 mins a game)

Hopefully Brand and AR could carry the team on their shoulders. I know it looks ugly now, but we might seeks into the playoff with that line-up.

I guess we go back into rebuilding mode again…