Scholarship table
Then Giannis did this...https://twitter.com/BucksNewsNStuff/status/961057770723213312
Shouldn'tna fined Magic for tellin' da truth, hey?
DEADLINE DAY!Cleveland looks pretty resigned to LeBron leaving, aina?
Actually they are completely transforming their roster to get some younger scorers around Lebron.
Holy hell Altman, I had made my original post just before the Crowder and Wade deals. Trying to piece this together live, so far its:Out: IT (expiring), Wade (expiring), Crowder (2 more affordable years), Frye (expiring), Shumpert ($11M player option), DRose (expiring), Cle's (not Nets) 1st rounder -heavily protected In: Clarkson (2 years about $12M per), Nance (1 year $2M), Hill (2 years $19M per), Hood (expiring), heavily protected Mia 2nd rounder.I'm sure that Lowe or another NBA-knower will have a column tonight about why I'm an idiot, but to me this doesn't seem much better or worse - just different. Also much more expensive in the 2019 offseason? So the sale to LeBron right now for 2019 is trading Crowder and Shumpert for Clarkson, Nance and Hill. Seems to me they might have been better off packaging Crowder to get rid of the Thompson or JR deals and then selling LeBron on the Nets pick and their money this offseason, rather than this Rube Goldberg?Edit: missed Frye in outgoing
So the sale to LeBron right now for 2019 is trading Crowder and Shumpert for Clarkson, Nance and Hill. Seems to me they might have been better off packaging Crowder to get rid of the Thompson or JR deals and then selling LeBron on the Nets pick and their money this offseason, rather than this Rube Goldberg?
Jae's been traded to Utah.Boston to Cleveland to Utah. Not going in the right direction.
I think the sale is things weren't working as-is, we're committed to trying something else that can make noise this year. LeBron may be too old to be sold on a 19 year old who won't peak for another 5 years.
This was predictable when he was traded to the Cavs. For a chance at a title, playing with Lebron is a good idea. For your future paychecks, it is a terrible idea. He makes people look worse....but he does win championships.
Not sure I buy the "makes people look worse" bit.How many guys who looked bad alongside LeBron went on to success with other teams after getting away from him? I'm honestly drawing a blank.
Lebron's style of play is not designed to amplify others.
Incorrect. He can take over games as a scorer, yes, but he is a tremendous passer and willing playmaker. One of the biggest criticisms of him over the years is that he has not looked for his own shot enough "like Michael and Kobe used to."As for the trades, to me it boiled down to Cleveland adding Hill for this year's playoffs while doing an addition-by-subtraction thing with IT ... because that simply wasn't working. I'm not sure about all the other stuff from Cleveland's standpoint, though.Utah made a great trade for Jae. That's not a bad team at all, and Jae should contribute a lot there.Lakers obviously making moves for a couple of serious FA signings next summer. Quite possibly LeBron.
Incorrect. He can take over games as a scorer, yes, but he is a tremendous passer and willing playmaker.
Bosh went from averaging 24 ppg his last season with the Raps to 16 ppg his last year with LeBron. His first year post-LeBron, he averaged 21 before clots ended his season.Wade went from averaging 15 ppg / 4 rpg / 3 apg in the last finals with LeBron while everyone called him washed up and blamed him for Lebron losing to then averaging 24 ppg / 6 rpg / 4 apg while dragging the Heat to game 7 of the eastern conference semis 2 years later without LeBron/Bosh/Whiteside/functioning keecaps.
Scottie Pippen averaged 18.6/7.7 in 1992-93.The following two seasons, while MJ was temporarily retired, he averaged 22.0/8.7 and 21.4/8.1.When Jordan returned, Scottie averaged 19.4/6.4.In 1994-95, pre-Jordan, Toni Kukoc averaged 15.7/5.4. When Jordan returned the next year, he dropped to 13.1/4.0.Ergo, Michael Jordan made players around him worse?Or, how about the fact that playing alongside the best player in the world is obviously going to diminish one's raw stats, and that's a terrible, awful, very bad, no good way to measure how well one is playing?I mean, of course Bosh's raw stats were lower when he was playing third fiddle to LeBron and Wade compared to a Toronto team where the next best players were Andrea Barnani and Hedo Turkoglu. He went from a 28.7 usage rate to 23.5. That's not LeBron making him worse, that's LeBron making his less necessary. And when LeBron went back to Cleveland? Bosh's usage rate was back over 28 percent.Same with Wade. His usage went from a league high 36.2 and 34.9 in the two seasons pre-LeBron, to 31.6, 31.3, 29.5 and 27.9 with LeBron. Guess what happened when LeBron left? Back up to 34.7, and the raw stats are a reflection of that.Again, this is not in the least bit evidence that LeBron made Wade worse. LeBron just made him a smaller part of the offense.In fact, in Wade's first season without LeBron in Miami, his efficiency rating fell, his true shooting percentage fell, his win shares fell and his VORP fell. So the truth is, playing alongside LeBron made him better.Same with Bosh. His PER ticked up 0.8, but his true shooting percentage fell, his win shares fell and his VORP dropped significantly. Again, he was a better player with LeBron.So, contrary to what you're saying, these guys were better in Miami with LeBron than without him. Their raw stats went up only because their usage went up, not because their play improved.
Not sure I buy the "makes people look worse" bit.