Comments on: 2009 Report Card: Nate Robinson

By: Ted Nelson

Ted Nelson — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:09:13 +0000

What’s the point of having a salary cap that everyone’s over?

“it’s all for PR purposes, Colangelo to show that the draft pick was smart and Dumars to show that the Billups deal was for a reason.”

Wins will do a lot more for a GM’s job security than PR, so I think it’s more likely that Colangelo really believes that he made the right pick and that Dumars was just following through on the plan that he started by moving Billups.

By: cgreene

cgreene — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:33:43 +0000

(although I guess that cap warning doesn’t help Lee much either.)

By: cgreene

cgreene — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:33:04 +0000

I was under the impression that Lee had a 4 year / $32M offer on the table from the Knicks right now and had not accepted. DW should invite Lee’s agent to the negotiating table today and hammer it out. Don’t want to piss him off into taking the QO. That would not be helpful especially in light of the new 2010-2011 cap.

By: jon abbey

jon abbey — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:55:37 +0000

might there be a trade exception generated for Toronto in that Marion/Stackhouse deal also?

and this is huge news:

“Wednesday, NBA teams also received tentative projections from the league warning that the cap is estimated to drop to somewhere between $50.4 million and $53.6 million for the 2010-11 season.”

it would be great if Caleb reran the numbers in light of this new info.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:55:34 +0000

That sounds about right, cav0011.

It’s ridiculous, but also sounds about right.

I guess no more ridiculous than Dumars’ bizarre moves this past year or so – it’s all for PR purposes, Colangelo to show that the draft pick was smart and Dumars to show that the Billups deal was for a reason.

By: cav0011

cav0011 — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:21:53 +0000

I think its colangelo’s way of saying he didnt mess up the draft pick.

By: Owen

Owen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:35:08 +0000

10 million for Bargnani? That is totally ridiculous…

By: BigBlueAL

BigBlueAL — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:06:45 +0000

Just read a couple of articles and it seems like Lee’s agent is getting frustrated. The report of him saying Lee is looking for 12 mil per year has annoyed the crap out of him. Also said he wished that the Knicks wouldve re-signed him already since they are the only team that can outright sign him and hoped Lee wouldve been signed by now along with continuing saying that a sign-and-trade will be very difficult to pull off. Looks like Donnie Walsh is playing hardball and is either winning or really pissing off Lee’s agent. I cant imagine Lee takes the qualifying offer from everything Ive read but you never know.

Either way I still hope soon enough that Lee re-signs and we can finally put this subject to rest….

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:09:30 +0000

Oh, duh!

It didn’t even occur to me that I should have mentioned the new cap figure. Thanks, Jon!

So yeah, I was pretty pleased to see it only fall to $57.7 million. The NBA must feel pretty darn lucky to have locked in that TV deal when they did.

And cwod, wow, $10 million per for Bargnani? David Lee is in such a weird position, comparatively. He knows he could beat that money on the open market next year, but would you risk the uncertainty of injury, etc? I don’t know if I would. If the Knicks would give him five years/$40 million, I think I would probably take it if I was Lee at this point.

By: cwod

cwod — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:55:25 +0000

Bargnani supposedly got an extension!

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4312517