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We haven't heard the last of Dallas yet. They may take a step back this year but if they're smart and don't tie up their future cap space with panic moves, they'll be a major player again in 2013. Dirk will be 36 then but I see his game aging well and he'll still be one of the better 4's in the...

Those 3 players also dominated at the collegiate level. Like everyone here I like Michael Stockton and the way he's played - but you don't make an nba roster before you earn an invite to training camp. Were he 2-3 inches taller, you could perhaps make a John Crotty comparison - but at 6-0 (at...

If you have a stretch 4 or 5 (i.e. Memo in his prime) and a pass-first PG, Brewer can thrive in that setting with his off-the-ball movement and offensive efficiency. The Jazz have no need for him.

Magic are just covering all their bases...just as the Bulls were when they interviewed Jeff in 2008. Personally I think Hornacek will be an NBA head coach someday, but he doesn't have nearly enough bench experience to be a serious canidate. Promotion. He was the 2nd assistant in Utah, was...

There have been players who looked fantastic in summer league that never materialized into stars, and there have been players that struggled in summer league who turned into very good NBA players. Summer league play doesn't entirely translate to regular season play and in the grand scheme of...

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franklin, I don't follow your reasoning, or perhaps you don't follow mine. I fully support acquiring assets - but I don't view acquiring Pau as acquiring an asset as much as he's a piece that costs you assets, since Pau is 32 and will be 34 at the end of his contract. My reasoning w/Pau is it's...

Locke has had some wierd obsession with Pau for years - in the second half of 2009-10 he said Gasol was better than Nowitzki and that he'd definitely choose Pau over Dirk. Still a good player with alot of skill - just not worth anything near his price tag if you don't have a top-10 player to...

Great for Jeremy, and good for the Jazz. Jeremy gets some longterm financial security and the Jazz get a guy still with the potential to be a bench player who can change the energy and momentum of a game. I doubt anyone (myself included) thought Jeremy would ever be getting a 3-year contract...

If you're paying someone salaries of $19 million and then $19.3 million, he better be: a) A bonefide franchise player - the marketable "face of the franchise" -or- b) A second-fiddle but a difference-maker who gives you a legitimate (not hopeful) chance at winning a championship in that...

None. You don't need to be 3-deep at every position (5 roster positions and a 13-player minimum). Hayward, Burks, possibly Murphy. Adding a veteran 2 creates a similar logjam to the one we had last year where Burks couldn't get on the floor. This guy gets it.

Agreed. If all you care about is how many rebounds you can grab or how many double-doubles you log (imo double-doubles are becoming a completely overrated stat but I'll leave that for another time) regardless of situation, efficiency, skill set and defensive effort then I could see how you...

Exactly, 2003-04 Raja Bell was a heck of a player for Utah. He was the tough guy on the team - and his teammates fed off his competitive nature. He also was an extremely good knockdown shooter - much of our offense involved our guards coming off curls and pindowns for mid-range jumpers, and Bell...

Thankfully Beasley has agreed to sign a 3-year $18* mil deal with Phoenix [*fixed thanks my2cents]. https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/220704787212140545

I'm just going to assume the OP was either drunk or highly medicated when he made that post, and even if he says he wasn't I'm still going to say he was.

These would be two primary requirements from the 3rd-team: 1. Able to take back one of Orlando's "bad contracts" - Turkoglu ($11.4 mil), Big Baby ($6.4 mil), or Jason Richardson ($5.8 mil) -and/or- 2. Able to circumvent part of the Nets current out-going package (Brooks, Lopez, Humphries...

Think the Nets are firmly a playoff team, likely top-5 but not top-3 unless they can land Dwight - which is still plausible but not probable. As John Hollnger pointed out tonight, NJ bizarrely using their full midlevel on Teletovic gives them a salary ceilling for this season that they would...

He's only a 3-year vet. DeShawn Stevenson played summer league when he was entering his 4th NBA season, Kosta Koufos when entering his 3rd...as much as I like Carroll as a bench player for the Jazz - he's still barely played less than 25 games in a Jazz uniform and has been waived twice in his...

He wanted to keep his options open in the event a small-market team like Utah couldn't keep competing with the best teams in the league...and he wanted to maximize his earning potential. A 3-yr max extension, then opt-out and resign for a longterm max before he hits 30. Now he will be 33...

The sad thing about Collins is he showed a nice mid-range jumper as a rookie and was actually a pretty solid offensive player next to Stockton and Malone...after his knee injury his accuracy declined and so did whatever quickness he possessed (he wasn't quick but he also wasn't a plodder in 2002...