MVP
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It kind of is. You paid to receive a meal and yet you stuck with bad feeling in the stomach and it even tasted like ****. Plus it gives you nasty farts next day.Exactly the same type poison some people on here think Exum is.
It kind of is. You paid to receive a meal and yet you stuck with bad feeling in the stomach and it even tasted like ****. Plus it gives you nasty farts next day.Exactly the same type poison some people on here think Exum is.
er for a player who has never amounted to anything, ever in his career. Brown/Darko levels of salary cost and disappointment.
Exactly the same type poison some people on here think Exum is.
Here is how I break it down: When was the money spent? Where else could the money be spent?
For Parsons, his contract has crippled the Grizzlies' ability to build very well around Conley and Gasol.
As for Exum, we spent money on Exum AFTER we signed Favors. We had no cap room after we signed Favors so keeping Exum was almost a no brainer because it was keep Exum or hope to use our mid-level. Since we absolutely suck at getting good free agents to come here, we had to pull the trigger to bring him back. Bringing back Exum, though overpaid and maybe a bust, didn't really impact us financially this season. If you're like me and have close to no faith that our FO can sign a big fish this summer, it's not really going to hurt us next season either.
And I mean, if we’re being real and if you do the math, it’s really like if Exum were a $10 Big Mac, Parsons would be a $22 Applebee’s burger. Not as big of a price margin as you infer.
There were a few MLE type guys this summer I’d rather us of have tried for than Exum, for sure. Even if we didn’t sign anyone, for flexibility’s sake, I’d rather pay $0 for no production than pay $11M for no production. Even if we can’t sign people we can absorb contracts for assets and the like.
Nobody's buying that 11.
Definitely not if it's in the back of the warehouse where nobody can see it.