Jump to content

Murfdogg21

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    4450
  • Joined

Everything posted by Murfdogg21

  1. I’m confident most Rockets fans outside of 3putt would trade Green for Durant. It’s the Suns’ demands (and ESPN/Ringer/Athletic similar mock trades) of including Reed, Jabari, Cam, and/or first round picks in the deal that makes it a stinker. Sorry KD, wish it could’ve worked out. Not blowing up the team’s next 5+ years for 60 games of KD making $50m.
  2. Shocking news: Fan of LA/NY team with huge financial advantages favors ending salary caps so the Lakers, Knicks, Rams, Giants, and Jets can spend like the Dodgers, Yankees, and Mets. “Either spend wisely…” doesn’t apply if there’s no cap and your team has nearly unlimited money (see: Yankees). The NBA lets you resign your players even if you’re over the cap if you’re willing to eat luxury taxes? If you build a “dynasty” level team, you can keep it together like the Warriors did (until they decided not to resign Klay). The 90s Bulls could’ve hung on a couple more seasons but Jerry Reinsdorf decided he was done shelling out. This current system already favors big market teams that are able and may be willing to pay the taxes if they can assemble a great roster. OKC had 3 young future HOF players on their team and blew it up because they knew couldn’t afford to keep them. Also, small market NBA teams have a disadvantage keeping/attracting free agents when they all seem to want to play in LA, NY, or Miami. If you gave those teams unlimited cap room, very few stars would ever remain with their original franchises because they’d all be joining super teams in those cities. If I was an LA/NY fan, I’d also want rules that hugely favored my teams. If you really wanted more opportunity to keep and grow dynasties while having parity and fairness to small market teams, the non-star majority of NBAPA should band together like the non-QBs/stars of NFLPA have to get more equity instead of the top 5% taking over half the money. NBA could increase salary cap/revenue sharing so players in total get paid more, but reduce the max and supermax levels so one or two players don’t make 80%+ of a team’s payroll. If LeBron and Luka were individually capped at a peasant’s wage of $25 or $30m/year, the Lakers could afford a third or fourth “max” player and have year to year flexibility in free agency.
  3. I watched eagerly for him to drop the people’s elbow on her collarbone.
  4. Also the HEB in Tehran will roll out some new delicious faux bacon.
  5. Devers is such a bitch. Butt hurt because Boston signed Bregman, refused to play 1B, and now eagerly learning 1B for the Giants.
  6. If KD goes to the Spurs he’ll have a career year and sign a team friendly extension. If KD comes to Houston, he’ll probably blow out his Achilles in February right after signing a 3 year supermax extension.
  7. IMO, the tragedy of Anakin’s fall is more powerful from the perspective on Mandalore than what we see in ROTS. Fuckin’ Maul, once again, tells the Jedi exactly what’s going to happen. Ahsoka refuses to believe it until she feels it happen and has the “oh fuck” realization immediately followed by Order 66. I understand Maul’s wanting to piss on Palpatine’s plan to flip Anakin, but he should’ve been smarter to think he could defeat Anakin and Kenobi by himself (when he couldn’t beat Kenobi alone previously and then got beat by Ahsoka). He might more effectively fucked Palpatine by dropping a dime on him to the Jedi sooner, get his revenge on the sith, and still run his pirate game in the Outer Rim. *All this shit you’d know what I was talking about if you’d stoop to “watching a cartoon”*
  8. The Red Wedding removed Starks from power in the North and eliminated the primary front of the war with the Lannisters, gave Winterfell to the Boltons, set up Sansa's marriage to Ramsey, caused Arya to go East and get trained by the faceless men, and later Arya's murder of all Frey men. It did some shit.
  9. I think he would've had a better pro career than Lamar Jackson with different coaches.
  10. I found the answer about FVV after I made the last post (can't trade a player with a player/team option until it is exercised). KD turns 37 in September, so the extension will really be for his 38/39 seasons. I wouldn't give him $60+ per year for that. Either treat it as a one year rental (and pay accordingly in the trade) or get him to extend for a more reasonable salary based on age/injury risk. For salary matching purposes, Houston's 2025 base salaries are: Sengun - $33.9 Jalen - $33.3 Brooks - $22.1 Jabari - $12.4 Reed - $9.6 Landale - $8 Eason - $5.7 They could re-sign and trade FVV (don't know why FVV would agree to that). If they decline FVV and don't re-sign/extend him, it puts them under the cap where they could sign another free agent and/or re-sign Steven Adams, then pull a trade for KD or someone else.
  11. I've seen realistic sports writers put a fair value on KD based on his age, injury risk, and only one year left on his contract, but there are more who think Houston should give way too much. ESPN mocked 5 trade proposals yesterday and had Houston giving up #10, the 2027 PHX pick, Reed, Cam, Brooks, and Londale. The other offers they pitched seem like less capital than what they have Houston giving up. Minnesota offers Gobert plus spares, Spurs offer Devin Vassell, Harrison Barnes, and #14 pick, and Knicks offer OG Anunoby, Mitchell Robinson. I don't think I'd give up Reed + multiple good assets; maybe tell them to pick two from Cam and the two first rounders plus salary filler. Can FVV be traded prior to declining the team option to serve as filler...like include him, then PHX declines the option, then FVV is a free agent (and could re-sign with Houston)? Or Jalen + Brooks? https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/44108357/kevin-durant-trade-proposals-four-deals-suns-star
  12. Are they showing signs of realism that their most attainable goal is being a spoiler?
  13. I wasn't cherry picking. They were in photos in two articles I read off Drudge yesterday. I was curious what Party for Socialism and Liberation had to do with all these printed signs at all the protests, then read their website. Photos like these: In Pflugerville:
  14. I don't know why I was surprised to look up the group named on the bottom of the printed posters and find the protests in all these cities are organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation whose goal is to completely topple capitalism.
  15. It makes my head hurt that there are diehard Star Wars fans who have no idea who Ahsoka Tano is.
  16. If that's the best offer PHX gets, it's possible. He'd be walking on a team with Wemby, Castle, Fox, CP3, and the #2 pick (Harper?). Not a bad crew to roll with.
  17. I was interviewed in a documentary, but that's not a movie and did not qualify for SAG card status. In high school, I was in a gallery crowd while filming Tin Cup, but I don't think any of the shots or angles where our group stood were used in the final cut. My FIL was one of the dudes that opened the giant gate in the most recent King Kong reboot.
  18. New dean of meat judging?
  19. 619 is the San Diego area code. It’s his way of showing love to the folks back home.
  20. If the kid went to school(s) for 6 years and made straight A’s, how does he not already have a degree?
  21. Yao kept getting hurt. The team was excellent when they both played. They were good even when Yao was hurt.
×
×
  • Create New...